UN-CONFERENCES, GENERAL

by: Helene Bos
date: 8/3/2002
Category: Society

UN-world conferences and their general strategy

ABOUT U.N. (-related) CONFERENCES

The UN world-conferences held in the nineties each produced a "Plan of Action," to be signed by the delegates and, if present, by the heads of state, during the final session, and to be ratified by the parliaments "at home," thus producing "international law," which supersedes national law. In this way the nineties have produced an unprecedented amount of international law; few people realise how much their own national sovereignty has already been overruled by international law, enforcing the globalization on many nations, in the UN-way.

The UN world-conferences held in the nineties were designed for each conference to build on the achievements of the previous one. The “Earth Summit” in Rio set the tone, featuring the survival of Planet Earth, under the, for this specific goal concocted and carefully defined concept of “sustainability.”

1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro
1993 Human Rights in Vienna
1994 Population and Development in Cairo
1995 Social Development in Stockholm
1995 Women in Beijing
1996 Habitat II in Istanbul.
The huge conference in Istanbul was meant to be the copingstone and basis for UN policy in the 21st century. A small team was interceding, and the course of the whole conference took a different turn.

Each of the conferences was followed up after 5 years (e.g. Beijing+5), to check with member states whether they had implemented what was agreed, and again after 10 years (Rio+10) to elaborate the legislation!!

The recent UN Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 ( WSSD II) in Johannesburg was in fact the Rio+10.

One of the involvements of Serving the Nations is discerning what is happening there spiritually. Helene was in Johannesburg!
See her short report in Dutch, and final report in English..

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