This Declaration is agreed by the 1,600 participants representing over 350 Non-Governmental Organizations from more than 70 countries who met in Melbourne from 30 August to 1 September, 2010.
This site has been put together to provide access to the wide range of media releases and resources for the Making Health Global activities – the UN DPI NGO conference, the public program and associated events.
This is not an official UN or Conference site. The official conference site is at http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/ngoconference
There are a large number of documents coming in on the subject of Tim Costello’s bold proposition. Click through to quickly access them.
Video and photos of the proposition
World Vision/Oxfam/Fred Hollows Foundation joint statement
World Vision background document on the floods
Statement to Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka
MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP
Canberra
7 October 2010
Australia will be investing $60 million over three years to help give children in developing countries life saving vaccines. (more…)
Mary Robinson, Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board, welcomes the new commitment, which will help save the lives of 4.2 million children
New York City, 6 October 2010 – With a new pledge of A$ 60 million (US$ 58 million) over three years, the Government of Australia doubled its previous commitment to the GAVI Alliance on Wednesday and set the pace for other donors at a meeting in New York.
The meeting of GAVI Alliance partners is part of a process to raise funds for GAVI’s 2010-2015 programme. If fully funded, GAVI will help developing countries immunise an additional 240 million children and prevent some 4.2 million deaths. (more…)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 1 September: “This is not the time to question the validity of the MDGs themselves, but rather a time to roll up our sleeves and do what is necessary to attain them, and beyond that, to look at the question of ensuring that they are sustainable after 2015,” said Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, today at the conclusion of the sixty-third annual DPI/NGO Conference in Melbourne.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 1 September – The fourth and final roundtable of the sixty-third annual DPI/NGO Conference wrapped up today with a show of overwhelming support for what the Chair of the Conference has called “the people’s document”.
Delegates at the UN-DPI Conference on the Millennium Development Goals health targets today endorsed a call for the UN World Leaders Summit in September to pay greater attention to HIV prevention amongst drug users.
A special workshop on Drugs and HIV/AIDS today unanimously endorsed a call for the forthcoming UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals to specifically integrate targets for HIV prevention among drug injectors.
The reverberated sound of the Bell of Peace has radiated in the 63rd DPI/NGO annual conference in Melbourne, delivering the best wishes to the people, United Nations, the whole world and all living creatures in the universe. (more…)
Recognizing the population’s growing needs in Pakistan caused by severe flooding from monsoon rains and the disaster’s magnitude having directly affected 17.6 million people with approximately 1600 killed, and encompassing an area of approximately 160,000 square kilometers within which 70 % of the roads and bridges have been washed away, and 1.2 million houses have been damaged and destroyed, and
International aid agencies Oxfam, Fred Hollows Foundation, and World Vision have joined with delegates at a United Nations’ health conference in Melbourne, Australia to call for the international community to freeze Pakistan’s debt and do more to help the country cope with the devastating effects of widespread flooding.
Tim Costello of World Vision Australia has proposed a two-year debt moratorium for Pakistan to help it overcome the tremendous health challenges brought about by the recent flooding.
The surprise proposition, coming immediately after the acceptance of the conference Declaration, received a standing ovation from the assembled delegates.
We will be posting official statements from the relevant organisations as soon as they are available. Photos and video are available here.
