Background Documents

• Substantial initiatives or commitments to action agreed at the special session. (29.08.00)
• Secretary-General replies to World Council of Churches. UN Press Release SG/SM/00/201 4 July 2000
• NGOs call on the UN to withdraw endorsement of "A Better World for All" document. (28.06.00)
• THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW! GENEVA 2000 and BEYOND. Continuing concerns of the ECUMENICAL TEAM, June, 2000.
• Geneva 2000 and the Ecumenical Team. (26.06.00)
• Extracts from Statements and correspondence received from WCC member churches and associated ecumenical bodies relating to "Geneva 2000" (20.06.00)
• Seeking Clarity of Vision and a Change of Heart: Report of the Ecumenical Team on the Second Preparatory Committee Meeting for Geneva 2000, 3-14 April 2000
• "There are alternatives to globalization" - a dossier prepared by the WCC Justice, Peace & Creation Team to help ecumenical partners prepare for the UN General Assembly's Special Session on Social Development, Geneva, June 2000 (Version française ) + (Traducción español)
• The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Preparatory Process for the WTO Ministerial Round, November 30-December 3, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA: BACKGROUND DOCUMENT, Geneva, October 1999
• the 1998 WCC Assembly statement on "The Debt Issue: A jubilee call to end the stranglehold of debt on impoverished peoples" en français) (auf Deutsch) (en español)
• WCC statements on debt and globalization
• Konrad Raiser's address to the plenary of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 1995.