CALD Program Officer attends the UN DPI/NGO Conference in New York

September 25, 2006 8:16 am Published by Leave your thoughts

(September 25, 2006) Mr. Paolo A. Zamora, CALD Program Officer, attended the 59thAnnual Department of Information/Non-Government Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York from Sepetmber 6 to 8.

With the theme “Unfinished Business: Effective Partnership for the Human Security and Sustainable Development”, the conference was attended by some 2,500 representatives of NGO’s from more than 90 countries to foster partnerships for security and sustainable development and discuss ways and means for strengthening collaboration between local communities and global institutions. Plenary themes included: finance, transparency and accountability, science and education, technologies, information and communication, values and religious and multicultural dialogues, health, hunger and HIVAIDS.

H.E. Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th Session of the General Assembly, opened the conference while H.E. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, delivered the closing remarks.

Mr. Zamora represented PHILCOPRS Organization for the Indigent, a non-profit organization that advocates development programs to promote youth empowerment in the Philippines.

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