Earth Summit 2002 online debate on HIV/AIDS

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Dear Listmembers - next week's debate on HIV/AIDS

might be of interest for participants in your

discussion. Please circulate widely - with apologies

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Join the Earth Summit 2002 online debate at

www.lifeonline.org/debate

Your chance to speak out on 'What Earth Summit 2002

should be trying to achieve?' Key writers and

thinkers on sustainable development will start the

debate. Everyone is encouraged to join in.

Ten years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, the

world's nations will gather again in Johannesburg

next September to review progress and plan for the

future. Preparations for the World Summit on

Sustainable Development 2002 are well under way,

emphasising a transparent and participatory

approach. This electronic forum hopes to initiate a

focused and constructive public discussion on some

of the priority issues. We invite people to share

their ideas, knowledge and diverse perspectives. The

results of the debate will be taken forward to

inform the next preparatory meeting for Rio+10 /

Earth Summit 2002.

The first week of the debate on sustainable cities

had more than 560 subscribers from 77 countries,

representing many different stakeholder groups

(academics, architects, artists, businesspeople,

faith communities, governments, NGOs, Indigenous

Peoples, local authorities, media, scientists,

students, UN officials, urban planner, women's

groups and individuals).

WHEN: Throughout September 2001.

QUESTIONS:

Week 3 (17 - 21 September)

HIV/AIDS is a great threat to sustainable

development; how can multi-sectoral responses be

developed to influence government policies and

pharmaceutical companies on this issue? How can

Earth Summit 2002 tackle the wider question of

equitable health care?

Week 4 (24 - 28 September)

How can multi-national companies be influenced to

adopt corporate citizenship and accountability for

sustainable development? Who are the key actors and

what are the main barriers? What strategies could

Earth Summit 2002 develop to address this issue?

If those questions trouble you, please join us to

discuss them.

HOW: To subscribe to the debate, visit

www.lifeonline.org/debate and click the 'Join the

Debate' link on the web page to register. You can

then contribute to the debate and receive the

moderated debate messages by email or just follow

the debate on the web.

The debate will be moderated by UNED Forum with

support from Lifeonline partners TVE, One World and

PANOS.

OUTCOME:

We will produce weekly summaries and a final report

of the discussions, analysing the results and

different viewpoints and recommendations. The report

will be widely disseminated to policy-makers and all

other interested stakeholders engaged in the 2nd

PrepCom of the World Summit on Sustainable

Development (New York, January 2002) and be made

available online.

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Join us throughout September for a lively

discussion. Visit www.lifeonline.org/debate

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Please circulate this invitation to your networks,

colleagues and friends as you see fit.

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Questions? E-mail the moderator Jasmin Enayati, UNED

Forum at jenayati@...

Jasmin Enayati

Project Co-ordinator

UNED Forum [an international multi-stakeholder forum

for sustainable development]

3 Whitehall Court

London SW1A 2EL, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7839 7171

Fax: +44 (0) 20 7930 5893

Email: jenayati@...

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