15 December 2008 - Fundación Cultura de Paz chaired by Federico Mayor Zaragoza has published the manifesto En tiempos de crisis soluciones para la gente. Check it in our data base!!

10 December 2008 60th anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights On this 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we, the undersigned, wish to emphasise that all Human Rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent, in full accordance with the Declaration of the World Conference on Human Rights made in Vienna... Read more...

20 November 2008 Currency Transaction Tax for Financing for Development Campaign Read more...

20 November 2008 MONTERREY+6 SERIES: Following up the Doha process Read more...

12 November 2008 Regarding the proposed International Meetings on the finantial crisis Our conviction that the time has come for an in-depth Reform of the System of International Institutions, so long demanded by many world forums, to begin to lay the foundation for a world democratic governance which, among many other things, would prevent the world having to experience another situation like this one. In any case, the ongoing world regionalisation processes should be considered amongst the new principles upon which the system must be refounded. Read more... Read also the think piece "New Capitalism?" by Federico Mayor Zaragoza

24 September 2008 Let us create a Currency Transaction Tax for Financing Development (CTT for FfD) We propose that the outcomes of the Doha meeting should include the creation of a Global Tax on Currency Transactions (CTT for FfD) as an additional, predictable, stable and sustainable source of Financing for Development, the funds from it being channelled into multilateral funds run by the United Nations for use, initially, in achieving the MDGs by 2015. Read more...

24 September 2008 Take part in the Campaign Week (17-24 October 2008) Read more...

5 September 2008 3rd High Level Forum - Accra 2008 Read more...

30 May 2008 The worldwide food crisis makes establishing a system of global democratic governance all the more urgent On the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we the undersigned wish to express our deep concern and to voice our most forceful protest at having reached this long foreseen and extremely grave situation in such a critical affair as feeding the world's inhabitants. This situation clearly exposes the failure of our present economic system in financial, environmental, cultural and moral terms, the rules of the market having replaced the rule of universal values, and it exposes the condition of vulnerability of our International Organisations, brought about by the absence of support from the most powerful countries. Read more...

4 March 2008 60th anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights On this 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks — UBUNTU, we, the undersigned, wish to emphasise that all Human Rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent, in full accordance with the Declaration of the World Conference on Human Rights made in Vienna... Read more...

2 & 3 December 2007 2nd Seminar on Future Scenarios for the Reform of the System of International Institutions Read more...

17 September 2007 LET US MAKE THE UNITED NATIONS THE CENTRAL INSTRUMENT IN DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNANCE On 18 September this year, the sixty-second annual session of the General Assembly of the United Nations will be opened under an umbrella slogan proposed by the Secretary General: "Revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly". A necessary and worthwhile aim. Read more...

18 May 2007 Times of crisis for international institutions?

12 February 2007 OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW UN SECRETARY GENERAL: MR. BAN KI-MOON We the signatories have over the last seven years, at the initiative of UBUNTU — World Forum of Civil Society Networks, issued a number of communiqués to world public opinion detailing various common issues, important among them the fact that "the democratisation, strengthening and primacy of the UN in international politics are essential in order to make a better world possible". Read more...

July 2006 Virtual launch of the 2006-2009 period of the "World Campaign"

Updated UBUNTU Website You are looking at the updated website of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU. From the first steps and inaugural meetings in 2000 and 2001, a great deal has happened, and our website - for the most part the result of the daily activities of these nearly five years of intense work on this project - inevitably needed this improvement. Read more...