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Wednesday, June 8, 2005:
9:00-5:30
The Church Center at the
United Nations
777 United Nations Plaza (1st Ave and 44th
Street).
8:30 registration and
coffee
9:00 Welcome,
Preview of Day, Rationale
Michael
Gottsegen (Brown University, CLAL - The National Jewish Center for
Learning and Leadership)
9:30 The United
Nations’ MDG Campaign for a Better World & Religious Responses
Hon. Evelyn Herfkens (UN Secretary General’s Executive Coordinator for the
Millennium Campaign (formerly Minster for Development Cooperation, the
Netherlands))
Respondents:
Rabbi Irving Greenberg (Jewish Life Network)
Rev. Richard Cizik (National Association of Evangelicals)
11:00 Who is my Neighbor? Religious Reflections on the MDGs
(facilitated small group discussions and reporting back)
12:00 MDGs in Focus
Session One: Poverty, the Environment and Goal 8
Speaker: John McArthur (UN MDG Poverty Task Force)
Speaker: Don Melnick (UN MDG Environmental Sustainability Task Force
Coordinator)
1:15 Lunch (working
discussions continue informally)
2:00 MDGs in Focus
Session Two: Health and Hunger
Speaker: Adrienne Germain, (UN MDG Child and Maternal Health Task Force member)
Speaker: Richard Beahrs (UN MDG Hunger Task
Force member)
3:00 What are the
obstacles to, and opportunities for, engaging religious institutions in support
of the MDGs? (facilitated small group discussions and reporting back)
4:00 From Here to
There: How should we proceed? Next steps/ strategies for engaging
religious organizations and communities in support of the MDGs
(a town meeting style
discussion)
5:00 Conclusion
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