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{Virtual} UN75 Global Governance Forum
16 September 2020 - 17 September 2020
FreeUN75 Global Governance Forum
The UN75 Global Governance Forum seeks to promote a more inclusive and effective United Nations through dialogue and recommendations that better harness the ideas, capabilities, and networks of both state and non-state actors for achieving the UN’s commitment to peace, sustainable development, human rights, and a stable climate.
As we approach the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations under the banner “the future we want, the UN we need”, we reflect on the complex challenges facing our world, including cross-border health pandemics, economic shocks, inequality, climate instability, and threats to peace and security, and bring forward a call to action. Talking about what the UN system can do for us and the changes required is important. An even more critical challenge is to engage stakeholders from within and outside the world body to co-create partnerships and pathways to the future we fervently desire and a United Nations that inspires and serves all humanity.
Forum Goals:
- Initiate a new generation of scale-able, multi-stakeholder partnership iniatives that better harness, for 2020 and beyond, the ideas, capabilities and networks of state & non-state actors for achieving the UN’s commitment to peace, sustainable development, human rights, and a stable climate
- Build consensus around a strategy for a select number of “global governance institutional, policy, and normative innovations.
Welcome Remarks by Moderator
Opening Comments on “Where We’ve Been, What We Hope to Accomplish” by Maureen Connolly, Forum Director Statement from a senior UN Leader (TBD)
Opening Panel on “The Future We Want, The United Nations We Need”
Speakers: Ban Ki-Moon, Eighth UN Secretary-General, Deputy Chair of The Elders, and President & Chair, Global Green Growth Institute
Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, Ambassador to the UN, and Co-Chair, Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Co-Chair, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, Member of The Elders, and former Director-General of the World Health Organization and Prime Minister of Norway
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CoNGO Notes: The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the UN has a number of full members participating actively in a variety of initiatives commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. CoNGO has issued its position on the commemoration by way of two important statements–the CoNGO Declaration on the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the UN and the CoNGO Statement on COVID-19 Recovery: Building Back Better.