The First annual Congress and Model UN Charter Review Conference will be held at the same time as the 62nd Annual DPI/NGO Conference.
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The World Alliance for Transforming the United Nations (WATUN) would like to invite you to participate in our first annual Congress and Model UN Charter Review Conference, at the downtown Holiday Inn in Mexico City on Saturday, September 12th, 2009. It will be conducted in English and Spanish. This event will follow the Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference, held at a nearby venue September 9 – 11th, focusing on Peace, Disarmament, and Development. During the DPI/NGO Conference, WATUN is conducting a Midday Dialogue Session on “Achieving Peace and Disarmament through Transforming the United Nations,” along with a Preparatory Meeting for our Congress on Wednesday evening, September 9th.
The World Alliance calls for the United Nations to hold a UN Charter Review Conference under Article 109 of the UN Charter. It works to educate the world community about the need to create a more effective and democratic means of global governance and puts forward specific proposals for transforming the United Nations. Since forming WATUN two years ago, we have held several organizational meetings, a Midday Dialogue Session at last year’s UN DPI/NGO Conference in Paris, and a Model UN Charter Review Conference at Universidad de Guadalajara.
During the Model UN Charter Review Conference, attendees will engage in interactive dialogue to explore why the UN needs to hold such a Conference and how to conduct it. We will examine specific proposals for Transforming the United Nations, focusing on achieving peace and disarmament, programs sufficient for solving our primary global problems, and how to create a binding and enforceable international rule of law. Exciting videos and action panels will inform, inspire, and enroll participants.
Please register in advance to attend the Congress and Model UN Review Conference. The registration fee is $25 – 70 per person, based on income and ability to pay, which will help cover the costs of putting on the event. To register, please contact Planetafilia by calling or writing to the numbers and email addresses given below.
To attend the Annual DPI/NGO Conference, you’ll need to register for it as well, before August 21, 2009. You can visit the Conference Website for more information at: http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/conference/ or email:
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The World Alliance for Transforming the UN is working to develop a Syllabus and Course Curriculum on “Transforming the United Nations” for high school and college students. We are also circulating a letter to UN General Assembly President D’Escoto, who was scheduled to meet with a group of us, before being called away to help resolve the crisis in Honduras. You can read the letter at: http://reddemocratica.blogspot.com and sign onto it by writing to:
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. More than 500 people have already co-signed the letter.
For more information, to register for the Congress and Model Review Conference, or to become a member of WATUN, please contact Daniel Morales, Francisco Plancarte, and/or Veronica Baron at Planetafilia:
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or call: (52 33) 3817 3475 or 3817 3478.
Secretariat: Planetafilia, Córdoba 2606; Colonia Providencia CP 44630; Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Our websites are www.planetafilia.org and http://www.transformun.org.
