Security Council We made a great advance in GPF's program on the UN Security Council by developing a regular series of meetings between Council delegations and NGOs, within the framework of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council. During the year we held fifteen such meetings, including meetings with Ambassadors Bill Richardson (U.S.) and Juan Somavia (Chile) during their Council presidencies.

UN Financial Crisis We provided expanded information on the UN's financial crisis and many media interviews on the topic. We organized the Second Worldwide Vigil on October 23, in 45 cities worldwide.

Global Social and Economic Policy We broadened our coverage of social and economic policy to include information on transnational corporations, the Multinational Agreement on Investments, structural adjustment policies, income inequality, and more. We co-sponsored a public meeting on the MAI in December.

Conference on Security Council Reform We organized our second day-long conference on the reform of the Security Council. Among the speakers were the President of the General Assembly, Ambassador Razali Ismail, as well as several other ambassadors, scholars, and NGO representatives.

Roundtable on Social and Economic Rights We organized a roundtable of experts at Columbia University Faculty House on social and economic rights, jointly sponsored with the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights. Among participants were human rights leaders, scholars, and UN officials.

Networking We continued to build our networks with like-minded NGOs and forged stronger ties with grassroots organizations, scholars, parliamentarians, and others in many parts of the world. Our increasing use of email for communication greatly facilitated this process.

Web Site We built the GPF web site to about 1,000 pages by Annual. Use of the site grew to about 400,000 hits for the year.

Sanctions Policy We began to work on UN sanctions policy and produced a major paper on this topic as well as broadened information on the web site.

Program on NGOs We started to work on NGO access to the UN by posting materials on the web site, proposing a luncheon meeting between NGOs and incoming Secretary General Kofi Annan, and leading a policy initiative (with ten partners) on NGO access to the "optical disk system" – the UN's major digital document archive.

International Public Finance In the context of our work on the UN financial crisis, we began to explore the question of global taxes, as a source of funding for the UN system and published several papers on this topic.

New Office GPF obtained office space in the Church Center for the UN, a building immediately across the street from UN headquarters. During the final half-year, we made arrangements for the new office, including design and building and we finally moved in December.

Internship Program During the year, we hosted ten interns from the United States, Canada, Japan and Switzerland. A cooperative arrangement with the Institute of Leadership Development in Toronto provided two funded interns from Canada, GPF's first full-timers.

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