Candido Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9-10 October 2000
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Over 300 leading academics, policy-makers and development and human rights activists gathered at the Candido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro for the Second Global Forum on Human Development (9-10 October 2000). They met to discuss and examine the implications of the UNDP Human Development Report 2000.
The report, which centred on human rights and human development, served as an impetus for participants to identify new research areas and suggest policy changes to implement the Report's main proposals worldwide. The Forum was organized by UNDP's Human Development Report Office and UNDP Brazil, in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency.
Speakers included Marco Maciel, Vice-President of Brazil; Enrique Iglesias, President, Inter-American Development Bank; Leif Pagrotsky, Sweden's Minister forTrade; Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch; and Ann Pettifor, Director of Jubilee 2000 UK.
At the conclusion of the Global Forum, awards were presented for their outstanding quality to National Human Development Reports produced in Armenia, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Latvia, Lebanon, Mozambique and the Philippines.
For more information see about the Forum and the agenda and papers/speeches,