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Hi, Blog!

It has been a long time since the last post. Spring break involuntarily extended until April because of the never-ending new year's reorganization procedures, but now we are ready to catch up with the human security wave.

Hope you enjoy coming changes, find useful information and feel encouraged to (net)work with us.

See you around,

A brief report of what is going on around Human Security this month:

1. The fourth Friends of Human Security Meeting on 15 May at UN NYHQ (jointly chaired by Japan and Mexico)

2. The first UN General Assembly Thematic Debate on Human Security on 22 May at UN NYHQ
http://www.un.org/ga/president/62/ThematicDebates/humansecurity.shtml

For this meeting the Friend of Human Security prepared a comprehensive compendium of human security related initiatives and activities by its members and UN agencies. It is available in all the official languages.
http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/62/695

In the next days, the eyes of the international community will be placed in Japan, following the outcomes of the two major meetings to take place in town: the TICAD and the G8 summit. As the host, the country has the challenge to ease the advance in the agenda of global and local problems, to reach some common agreements, and to send us back home with the hope that something will change.
Though much has been spoken about the preparatory workshops, the resulting innovative proposals and contested opinions; there are two facts, less commented until now, that could make us think – maybe naively – that Japan can be the difference.

Hi, Blog.

Sure all of you are anxiously waiting for the outcome of TICAD meeting to take place this week. By now, please take a look on the statements from the General Assembly Thematic Debate on Human Security, held in New York last 22th.

The press conference could be found here, and the whole debate here (look for the day transmissions!)