United Nations-Sponsored World Conferences

by Schechter, Michael G.

• ISBN13: 9789280810486
• ISBN10: 9280810480
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

What value were the widely publicised United Nations-sponsored World Conferences in the 1990s and what was actually accomplished at the global meetings in Rio, Vienna, and Beijing? The authors of United Nations-sponsored World Conferences demonstrate through their case studies that answering these sorts of questions requires a focus on the follow-up to and implementation of the Conferences and not simply attention to the conferences themselves. They argue that the terms of public debate on the accomplishments of such conferences, and thus the future of similar conferences, must include a careful assessment of their impacts long after the final documents have been passed.They suggest that previous works on such conferences have only told part of the story and thus should not, by themselves, be used as a basis for public policy decisions regarding their future.

Table of Contents

Tables and figures	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Editor's introduction	xi
Part One Conferences	1	(62)
UN-sponsored world conferences in the 1990s	3	(7)
Michael G. Schechter
Implementing global goals for children: Lessons from UNICEF experience	10	(19)
Richard Jolly
The United Nations World Conference on Human Rights: Evaluation, monitoring, and review	29	(34)
Clarence J. Dias
Part Two The Beijing and Rio conference processes	63	(104)
Effectiveness of the Beijing Conference in fostering compliance with international law regarding women	65	(20)
Rebecca J. Cook
Development, implementation, and effectiveness of the CBD process	85	(37)
Thomas Yongo
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Implementation and compliance	122	(45)
Jo Elizabeth Butler
Aniket Ghai
Part Three Non-state actors and conference follow-up and implementation	167	(56)
From consensus-building to implementation: The follow-up to the UN global conferences of the 1990s	169	(15)
Masumi Ono
Making meaningful UN-sponsored world conferences of the 1990s: NGOs to the rescue?	184	(34)
Michael G. Schechter
Conclusions	218	(5)
Michael G. Schechter
Appendix A Chronology of conference-related events	223	(10)
Debbi Schaubman
Appendix B From PrepCom to follow-up: Researching the United Nations conferences of the 1990s	233	(43)
Debbi Schaubman
Acronyms and abbreviations	276	(4)
Contributors	280	(3)
Index	283