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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
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001. resume
Re: Alena Panikova (partial) (1 page)
10/04/1999
b(6)
002. resume
Re: Jaroslav Tesliar (partial) (1 page)
10/04/1999
b(6)
003. resume
Re: Sarlota Pufflerova (partial) (1 page)
10/04/1999
b(6)
004. resume
Re: Magda Vasaryova (partial) (1 page)
10/04/1999
b(6)
005. resume
Re: Emilia Sicakova (partial) (1 page)
10/04/1999
b(6)
006. schedule
Schedule for Hillary Rodham Clinton (partial) (4 pages)
11/18/1999
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PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Slovakia NGO's
SLOVAK REPUBLIC: ROUNDTABLE WITH NGO LEADERS
Context of the Event
The format of this meeting will recall the similar roundtable
you had with Slovak NGO leaders during your visit in 1996, but
the circumstances for the "Third Sector" are now totally
different. At the time of your last visit, Slovak civic groups
were under tremendous pressure from the Meciar government. This
was exemplified by the Law on Foundations, which establish
onerous requirements for registration of civic groups. NGO
leaders have great regard for you because of the meaningful
public support for NGOs and the development of civil society you
offered at their most difficult hour in 1996. The political
environment for NGOs has changed completely in the wake of the
September 1998 elections, in which NGOs played a critical role.
Domestic NGOs worked together to produce a nationwide non-
partisan campaign to energize people to participate in the
elections. The public focus NGOs kept on the elections ensured
they were free and fair, and the remarkable 84 percent voter
turnout their efforts produced was a key to ousting the Meciar
government. International organizations and governments
supported the NGOs, with the USG playing a central role through
AID/SEED and USIA-supported programs. The current government
recognizes the role of NGOs as forces for reform and vehicles to
harness citizens' opinions and aspirations. Slovak NGOs are now
viewed as having valuable experience in bringing about
democratic change to share with other countries in the region.
The NGO OK '98 has conducted voter education training in
Croatia, and the Slovak government has offered NGO development
assistance for creating a civil society in Kosovo. During their
recent meeting in New York, the President urged PM Dzurinda to
encourage Slovak NGOs to use their experience to support Serb
democratization. You should reinforce this message.
Objectives
Praise the NGO community for the key role it played in
bringing about dramatic change in Slovakia's social and
political environment.
Remind NGO leaders that they must continue to work to
strengthen democracy and civil society.
Encourage NGOs to share their experience in development of
civil society and promoting democratic change with
counterparts in the former Yugoslavia.
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED
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Points to Make
Great pleasure to come back to Slovakia to meet with you under
such different circumstances than when I was here in 1996.
Should be very proud of role in dramatic change in Slovakia's
social and political environment.
Success of you efforts should not be measured by changes in
political representation alone, but in terms of dramatic, and
we hope, lasting shift in public and government attitudes
toward role of civic groups in democratic society.
Must be aware of potential dangers of success. Pressure
exerted on Third Sector by previous government was a unifying
factor. As important in civil society as in politics to guard
against divisiveness in absence of clear threat.
Challenge for NGOs is to find ways to work in partnership with
government, while maintaining spirit of activism and
objectivity.
Encourage you to maintain the relationships developed with
governments and organizations that have supported your
efforts.
United States is proud to see that the support we have been
able to provide toward development of civil society in
Slovakia has been so well used.
Urge you now to use knowledge and experience you have gained
to help interested parties in Serbia and Kosovo build
foundation for successful democratic transition of their own.
Best hope for Serb people is development of an effective civil
society sector that can bring pressure for a government that
can address their needs.
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED
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Brief Bios on NGO Participants
for NGO Event with FLOTUS
1.
Katarína Košťálová is the Director of the Slovak Academic
Information Agency-Service Center for the Third Sector
(SAIA-SCTS). She has extensive experience in the
management of the not-for-profit, non-governmental
organizations. She was a participant at the NGO
Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held in Bratislava in 1996.
2.
Peter Hunčík, is Chairman of the Sandor Marai Foundation
and founder and director of the Hungarian-Slovak Training
Center on Ethnic Conflict Resolution. Served as an
advisor to President Vaclav Havel on minority and human
rights issues under the Czech and Slovak Federal
Republic. Mr. Hunčík was a participant at the NGO
Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held in Bratislava in 1996.
He is also one of the three Slovak NGO leaders accepting
the award on behalf of OK'98 at the Warsaw Lesson's in
Transition Conference October 3-6, 1999.
3.
Klára Orgovánová, is a program director of the Open
Society Foundation in Bratislava, and the Director of
Inforoma. Prior to this position, Ms. Orgovánová served.
as Advisor for Minority Policy in the Slovak Government
and as Assistant Professor of Roma Culture at the
University of Nitra. She was a participant at the NGO
Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held in Bratislava in 1996.
Inforoma was the co-recipient of an EU-U.S. Civil Society
and Democracy Award in 1998 for their work to positively
influence the civic pride of Roma and for their work to
change the negative picture of Roma among the majority
population.
4.
Juraj Mesík, is the Director of Nadacia EKOPOLIS as well
as the Director of the Environmental Partnership for
Central Europe (EPCE) in Slovakia. A more detailed
biography for him is attached. Mr. Mesík was a
participant at the NGO Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held
in Bratislava in 1996. He is also one of the three
Slovak NGO leaders accepting the award on behalf of OK'98
at the Warsaw Lesson's in Transition Conference October
3-6, 1999.
5.
Pavol Demes, is the co-founder and Executive Director of
SAIA-Service Center for the Third Sector. He also serves
on the Gremium for the Third Sector, an advocacy body for
the NGO sector in Slovakia. Mr. Demes also served as
Foreign Policy Advisor for the President of the Slovak
Republic. Mr. Demeš was a participant at the NGO
Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held in Bratislava in 1996.
He is also one of the three Slovak NGO leaders accepting
the award on behalf of OK'98 at the Warsaw Lesson's in
Transition Conference October 3-6, 1999.
6.
Michal Kravčík is the founder and President of the People
and Water Civic Association, which focuses on the
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protection of Slovakia's water resources and on
increasing local citizen's participation in community
decision-making. He is also a member of several other
Slovak and international environmental organizations.
Mr. Kravčík is the European winner of the 1999 Goldman
Prize for Environment. People and Water is also the
recipient of an EU-U.S. Civil Society and Democracy Award
in 1998 for to build an open civil society and to support
the sustainable development of the upper Torysa region of
eastern Slovakia. He was a participant at the NGO
Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held in Bratislava in 1996.
7.
Bohuslava Zániová is the Office Director of the Slovak
Humanitarian Council, the national umbrella organization
for humanitarian and social service NGOs in Slovakia.
Prior to assuming this position, she was responsible for
the financial management of the Council and served as
Chairwoman of the Council's Supervisory Board. She was a
participant at the NGO Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held
in Bratislava in 1996.
8.
Dušan Ondrušek, is the Director of Partners for
Democratic Change Slovakia, a training and conflict
resolution center with office in Bratislava and Banska
Bystrica. He is a psychologist by training and conducts
training on fundamental questions of organizational
management of executives, social workers, and staff at
state, educational, local government, and non-
governmental institutions.
9.
Daniel Brezina studied journalism at Comenius University
and is presently a manager for Slovak Television. He is
secretary of the central council of the Bethlehem
Foundation which supports mental health and helps the
mentally ill. He is Director of the GEMMA Foundation
which carried out the March for Slovakia before the 1998
parliamentary elections. He was a participant at the NGO
Roundtable with Mrs. Clinton held in Bratislava in 1996.
10. Magda Vášaryová, Chairwoman
Slovak Foreign Policy Association
11. Robert Vlašič, Executive Director
Nadácia pre občiansku spoločnosť
12. Sarlotta Pufflerová, Spokesperson for OK 98
The Foundation Citizen and Democracy/Minority Rights
Group
13. Emília Sičáková, President
Transparency International Slovakia
14. Katarína Farkašová
Alliance of Women
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15. Alena Pánikova
Open Society Foundation
16. Filip Vagač
Children of Slovakia Foundation
17. Andrej Bartosiewicz
Association for Support of Local Democracy
18. Zuzana Szatmáry
Charter 77
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Mayor of Bratislava
Doc. JUDr. Jozef Moravčik, CSc., the mayor of capital city Bratislava, was
born on March 19th, 1945 in Očová, the Zvolen district. He graduated his
secondary studies in Zvolen in the year 1964. During the years 1964'65 he was
studying at the Law Faculty of the Charles University, later at the Law Faculty of
the Comenius University in Bratislava. After graduating of the study of law in the
year 1969 he started to work as a lecturer at the Economic University in
Bratislava. During the short period he was working also in Chemoplast
Bratislava. From the year 1972 he worked all the Law Faculty of the Comenius
University in Bratislava, at first as a research lecturer. from the year 1985 as a
docent in the sphere of the economic law. In The year 1990 he was elected for the
dean of the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He performed
this function till February 1991, when he was coopted as the Member of
Parliament of the Slovak National Council on behalf of the movement VPN
(Public Against Violance), respectively later on behalf of HZDS (Movement for
Democratic Slovakia). During the period from February to June 1992 he was the
Member of Parliament of the Slovak National Council and he was elected on.
behalf of HZDS into the House of Commons of the Federal Assembly in the
parliamentary elections in June 1992.
From June 2nd, 1992 to December 31th, 1992 he held the post of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of CSFR. He participated TO a major degree in the
calm splitting of CSFR.
From January 1th. 1993 he worked as the adviser of the Prime Minister for
the legislative affairs and on March 19th. 1993 he became the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. On February 23rd. 1994 he submitted the
resignation that was accepted by President on February 28th. 1994. On March
15th, 1994 the President of the Slovak Republic, Michal Kováč, entrusted him
with leading of negotiations regarding forming of the new government. From
March 16th, 1994 to December 13th. 1994 he was the Prime Minister of the
Slovak Republic.
At present he holds the post of the chairman of the Policy-making Council
of the Democratic Union of Slovakia and he is entrusted with leading of the
Democratic Union of Slovakia. He was elected for the mayor of capital city of
Bratislava in the local authority elections in December 1998.
Jozef Moravčik is married and he has two children. He speaks fluent
English and Russian language and he has a reading knowledge of German and
French language.
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Juraj Mesik would serve as co-director for grantmaking. The position would require 100%
participation over the three-year program. Mr. Mesik is fluent in Slovak and English and has
an intermediate level knowledge of Russian. In 1988, Mr. Mesik earned an M.D. from
Comenius Medical University in Martin, CSFR.
From 1989 to 1990, Mr. Mesik served as a Member of Parliament in the Czechoslovak Federal
Assembly in Prague. From 1990 to 1991, he served as Chairman of the Green Party in
Slovakia and vice-chairman of the Federal Green Party. In 1990, he also became Director of
the Department of Social Context within the Federal Ministry for Environment in Prague and
remained in that position until 1992. From 1993 to the present, Mr. Mesik has been Director
of the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe - Slovakia (EPCE). In 1997, the
organization formally became known as the Ekopolis Foundation. In 1998, Mr. Mesik was
elected to the Banska Bystrica City Council.
Throughout his career, Mr. Mesik has been extensively involved in the third sector in Slovakia.
From 1982 to 1992, he served as chairman of the local branch, Ekotrend, of the Slovak Union
of Nature and Landscape Protectors (SZOPK), (later member of zo 6 and zo 16 in
Bratislava and vice president of SZOPK (1990-1992)) From 1994 to 1995, he served as a
trustee for the Institute for East West Studies in Prague and New York. In 1994, Mr. Mesik
became a trustee for the Banska Bystrica Healthy City Community Foundation and continues
to work closely with the organization. From 1995 to 1998, he served as a member of the
Gremium of the Third Sector (G3S), a board that represents NGOs in Slovakia, and worked as
part of the steering committee for the 1996 SOS Third Sector Campaign. From 1996 to 1998,
Mr. Mesik served on the Advisory Board of the Community Philanthropy Initiative for the
Open Society Fund in Bratislava. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a Board member for the
Slovak Academic Information Agency (SAIA) in Bratislava. From 1996 to the present, he has
worked on the European Community Philanthropy Initiative with the European Foundation
Center in Brussels. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Mesik served as a board member for the Slovak
Youth Foundation (TYF) and was a facilitator and G3S representative for the Roundtable of
Local Government. In 1998, he worked as a member of the steering committee for the OK 98
election campaign.
In 1996, Mr. Mesik was awarded the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and the Salzburg Seminar Fellowship in 1998. Mr. Mesik is also the author of
numerous commentaries and analytical articles that appear in SME, Obcianska Spolocnost
(Civil Society), Non-Profit and other publications.
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SAIA - SCTS
Pavol Demeš
Pavol Demeš, formerly the Foreign Policy Advisor of the President
of the Slovak Republic (1993 - 1997), is currently the Executive
Director of the Slovak Academic Information Agency-Service
Center for the Third Sector. Previously he served the government
of the Slovak Republic as Minister of International Relations (1991-
1992) and Director of the Department of Foreign Relations of the
Ministry of Education (1990-91).
An internationally recognized NGO leader, Demeš served as the
elected spokes-person of the Gremium of the Third Sector, a
volunteer advocacy coalition (1994-1999) and has spoken on civil
society and NGO issues in many international fora. He has served
on the boards of national and international associations and
foundations.
Prior to the "velvet revolution" in November 1989 he was a bio-
medical researcher at Comenius University, Bratislava. He is a
graduate of Charles University in Prague (1980) and spent the
1987-1988 academic year in the United States as postdoctoral
fellow at University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.
P. Demeš is currently Scholar in Residence at Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars (Washington). From December 1,
1999 he is appointed as Director for Central and Eastern Europe of
the German Marschall Fund of the United States.
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Nadácia pre občiansku spoločnosť
Internationally Affiliated with THE FOUNDATION FOR A CIVIL SOCIETY (USA)
Mission: To strenghten citizen participation in the democratic decision making process by
promoting acceptance of responsibilities and practice of civic rights, and by supporting
cooperation among the government, business, and non-profit sectors.
Vision: A Slovakia in which the citizen is aware of his/her rights and responsibilities and
actively protects his/her rights and fulfills his/her responsibilities in an atmosphere
characterized by tolerance and respect for differences.
Nadácia pre občiansku spoločnost (The NOS Foundation), is an independent Slovak
foundation that was established in 1997. In its short life, NOS has quickly established itself
as a prominent national NGO with an impact throughout Slovakia In 1998, it developed
programs which were crucial to the free and fair balloting in the 1998 parliamentary and local
elections, and has demonstrated its capacity as a major grant-making institution in the
NOS's country. work is based on values; the civic values which it seeks to introduce and solidify in
Slovak society. It is based on internationalism; through its heritage and its commitment to
maintain an international staff, NOS seeks to gain and share experiences at a regional and
international level. It is based on openness; to new ideas, to different approaches, and to the
recognition that NOS cannot accomplish its mission without the efforts of others. And it is
based on hard work; knowing that the realization of an ambitious vision cannot always fit into
a 40-hour work week. This identity originates from the people that represent NOS and is
reflected in the organization's programs and activities. And this is the foundation on which
the future of NOS is based.
Miletičova 23, 821 09 Bratislava, Slovakia, tel: 421-7-5024 4189. fax: 421-7-5024 4282, e-mail: [email protected]
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What is SAIA-SCTS?
The Slovak Academic Information Agency - Service Center for the
Third Sector (SAIA-SCTS), established in March 1990, is a non-
governmental, not-for-profit service organization. Its mission today is to
foster the development and strengthening of a democratic civil society in
Slovakia and promote international educational exchanges. In fulfillment
of this mission, SAIA-SCTS compiles and disseminates information,
seeks to improve the capabilities, capacities and resources available
mostly to NGOs, universities and individuals. It maintains its offices in
nine cities throughout the country.
SAIA-SCTS has achieved considerable recognition in Slovakia and
abroad for the scope of its programs, the effectiveness of its operations
and the professionalism of its staff. The programs of SAIA-SCTS are
funded by grants from foreign and domestic foundations as well as by
fees for services. The major funders of SAIA-SCTS are Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation (USA), Ford Foundation (USA), Nippon Foundation
(Japan), Open Society Foundation (Slovakia), Civil Society Development
Foundation (Phare Foundation - Slovakia).
SAIA-SCTS, P.O.BOX 42, 820 05 Bratislava 25, Slovakia
tel. +421 7 554 10 387, 554 10 397, fax +421 7 554 10 382
e-mail [email protected]. http://www.saia.sk
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THE CHARTA 77 FOUNDATION
NADÁCIA CHARTY 77
On August 21, 1968, the occupation of Czechoslovakia by troops of the Warsaw Pact
ended the "Prague Spring" and began the process of "normalization" which re-established a
totalitarian communist regime. Nine years later, on 1 January 1977, a group of dissidents
which included Vacláv Havel, the current President of the Czech Republic, issued the
declaration Charter 77. Those who signed this charter did more than just call attention to
violations of human and citizen rights. They demanded and were personally committed to
working for the establishment of justice, the rule of law, and respect for human rights and
international agreements in Czechoslovakia. Those who affixed their signatures to the Charter
77 and became part of this civic movement sought to work within the law for the public
benefit. The communist regime, however, subjected them to various forms of persecution
ranging from the loss of employment to imprisonment.
One year later, Professor Janouch established the Charter 77 Foundation in Sweden.
From abroad the foundation sought support for the movement in Czechoslovakia and, when
individual signatories were imprisoned, provided assistance to their families so that they could
survive.
Immediately after the "Velvet Revolution" in 1989 the Charter 77 Foundation was
officially established in Czechoslovakia and three national committees were created, Czech,
Moravian and Slovak. Money, publications, duplication and editorial technology were
supplied through established and new channels to in order to help the foundation achieve the
aims enunciated in the Charter 77. Four years later, after Czechoslovakia was dissolved and
two new independent states, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic were established on
1 January 1993, the Charter 77 Foundation responded by creating two new independent
entities.
In Slovakia, with a rapidly fluctuating political and economic environment, the Charter
77 Foundation seeks to encourage the development of a truly democratic civil society and
achieve the still relevant ideals of the Charter 77, namely, respect for human rights, tolerance
and the rule of law. It provides Slovak citizens and others with legal assistance, offers a
variety of public education and information programs, maintains constructive dialog with
representatives of political and state power, calls attention to and documents specific
violations of human and citizen rights, promotes tolerance of minorities, acts as a mediator in
conflict situations, analyzes legal proposals affecting the guarantee of human and citizen
rights, issues reports and publications and cooperates with other non-governmental, not-for-
profit entities.
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AUSPUUMKSKY RUZUUJ PHONE NU. : +421 7 58233487
04 OKT. 1999 12:51
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Introduction of Transparency international Slovakia
Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) is a national chapter of Transparency
International (TI), the only international movement exclusively devoted to the
problems of transparency, corruption and bribery on both national and international
levels. In over 80 countries, TI national chapters promote public awareness and
comprehensive integrity systems. TI. was established in 1993 in Berlin where the TI
Secretariat is now situated.
The process of creating TIS was as follows:
From the initiative of Center of Economic Development, Alliance for Transparency
and Corruption Combating was created on July 20, 1998. Alliance is an informal
organization of credible people from the Slovak public life and it is advisory and
consultative council of TIS. Than, on September 21, 1998 with participation of
Jeremy Pope, executive director of TI, TIS was launched. Formally TIS is the
organizational unit of Center of Economic Development - non-governmental and
non-partisan organization.
TTS is based on the following guiding principles:
TIS emphasis is on prevention and on reforming systems, not on exposing
individual cases;
TIS considers that the movement against corruption is global and transcends
social, political, economic and cultural systems;
Internally, TIS observes the principles of participation, decentralization,
diversity, accountability and transparency;
TIS is politically non-partisan; and
TIS recognizes that there are strong practical as well as ethical reasons for
containing corruption.
Combating corruption sustainably is only possible with the involvement of all the
stakeholders, which include the state, civil society and the private sector. Through our
national chapter we try to bring together people of integrity in civil society, business
and government to work as coalitions for systemic reforms. Thus, Center for
Economic Development - Transparency International Slovakia organized, among
other activities, conference concerning transparency in the Slovak economy on June
25. The CO - organizer was the World Bank The conference was opened by the prime
- minister of the Slovak Republic Mikulás Dzurinda and among others enjoyed the
speeches of the vice prime ministers Ivan Mikloš and Lubomir Fogás.
TIS is now in cooperation with other NGOs created Civil Campaign for Good
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The layers of the Civil Campaign have created
working group and preparing the respective law. The question of public procurement
and its good implementation is one of the important issues dealt in TIS. As the prime
- minister of the Slovak Republic asked TIS for the help in the process of preparation
National Anti - corruption program we are focusing our capacities also on this.
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TEL. CIS : +421 7 5441 42 85 Okt. 04 1999 11:27AM P1
From STA
Attn che, 54454711
SFPA Mission
The Slovak Foreign Policy Association /SFPA/. founded in May 1993. as an
independent, non- partison and non-profit organization seeks to strengthen the quality of
discussion and analysis of world affairs and to improve the knowledge base of both specialists
and the general public. The SFPA is a non-governmental organisation and is affiliated with no
political party or movement. The SJOA memberships and activities are open to all who
believe in the importance of non-partisan and civil discourse on issues of foreign policy and
international affairs.
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The Slovak Humanitarian Council
Help to people in need in our country and abroad
The first and biggest association of volunteer organizations in Slovakia
A national volunteer center joining 153 organizations
Represents its member organizations in the legislative process when defending and
asserting rights of the disabled and socially dependent citizens
Organizes professional seminaries and workshops, vital in development of
voluntarism in Slovakia
Being a national volunteer center, it broadens partnership and cooperation with
state and other authorities, as well as with business sector
Represents its member organizations in international humanitarian and charitable
institutions
Is a member of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), European
Foundation Centre (EFC), European Volunteer Centre (C.E.V.) and European
Federation for the Welfare of the Elderly (EURAG)
Publishes a specialized magazine for the volunteer sector
Organizes a beneficent representative concert to celebrate the European Volunteers
Day and the International Day of the Disabled every year
Gains material donations from sponsors to help people in critical situations
Awards a moral prize the Gift of the Year, which can go to anybody who donated a
financial or material gift to people in need yearly
It has been nine years now that the Slovak Humanitarian Council organizes
its activities, welcoming many volunteers, sponsors and friends.
We have no open days at the Slovak Humanitarian Council.
The house is open every day there.
Since 1990, the Slovak Humanitarian Council has been a national volunteer
center. At present, it covers 153 volunteer non-profit organizations with activities in the
entire Slovakia. The Council works as their information, methodical, coordination and
training center. It provides financial aid to its member organizations to realize their
projects and for them it also obtains material help from donors and sponsors. It
represents them in negotiations with state authorities as well as in international
volunteer institutions. It has been thousands of people suffering from diseases, in need
or critical situation, that have turned to the Slovak Humanitarian Council asking for
help and it helped them to reduce their suffering and to solve their troublesome
problems. Its activities contributed to eliminate the consequences of the Slovakia in
summer 1997. In abroad, the Slovak Humanitarian Council is well-known for providing
concrete humanitarian aid to the citizens of countries hit by natural catastrophes and
war conflicts.
Slovenski humanitná rada, Blumentálska 19, 816 13 Bratislava, Slovak Republic,
phone/fax: ++421 7 55423661, c-mail: [email protected], web: www.changenet.sk/shr,
Account No. 107531-012/0200, VUB Bratislava-mesto
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SANDOR MARAI FOUNDATION (SMF)
The Sándor Márai Foundation (SMF) was established in August 1990 in Bratislava by
liberally-oriented intellectuals. The main aim of the SMF from the very beginning has been to support
individual initiatives, to promote the creation and consolidation of civic values and facilitate the
spacemaking of a European-style of thinking in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the whole region of
Central and Eastern Europe.
ACTIVITIES OF THE SMF - 1990-1999
1990
September 30th - conference on the theme of "Tragedy of Jewry in Dunajská Streda." This was the
first time that the Holocaust of the Jewry in Czechoslovakia was spoken about in public.
1991
January 11-13 - a three-day conference on "Liberalism and Collective Rights."
October 23-24 - conference on "Anatomy of Prejudice: Antisemitism in Central Europe after
the Holocaust."
1992
March 6-7 - conference "The Citizen in Central Europe".
1993
21-24 April - International Journalism Seminar
20 Ocsober - "Life on the Ethnic Fault Lines" conference held in the train of former Hungarian
leader, János Kádár. Made into a film by the BBC and Tamouz Media.
21-23 October - seminar entitled "Dialog in Politics, Society, Philosophy and Culture".
12 November - conference in Komárno on the "Development of Regions."
1994
May - "Strengthening Democracy in Societies in Transition" - a series of press conferences with
Hungarian politicians.
September/October - conference on "Prostitution in the Postcommunist Countries of Europe."
Experts from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary discussed the question of prostitution,
related problems of alcoholism, drugs, criminality, AIDS.
August - Research completed on a three-year project on "Ethnic Conflict Resolution." This research
was based on extensive interviews carried out by sociologists or psychologists with Slovaks living in
homogeneous regions. The results were presented at a two-day seminar in Dunajská Streda and
published in the book entitled "Counterproof" in 1995.
1995
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February-December - Slovak and Hungarian individuals were selected to begin expert training in the
SMF "Ethnic Conflict Resolution Project". They were trained of the famous Semmelweis
University School of Medicine (SOTE) in Budapest.
November - "Discussion Club" where current economic and social problems are discussed.
1996
February - the SMF began the "Ethnic Conflict Resolution (ECR) Training" for public opinion
leaders in local communities in Slovakia.
May - conference on the problems of the Roma population in Slovakia
December - a jumble sale was organized before Christmas in which various items of clothing, sweets,
fruit, and food were distributed to physically and mentally handicapped people in five institutions in
the area around Dunajská Streda.
December - The SMF organised a group of 22 well-known leaders of public affairs to write and
publish the Global Report on Slovakia. It is the most comprehensive analysis of political, economic,
and cultural trends in Slovakia.
1997
April - the best-selling book about Slovakia, the "Global Report", was translated into English.
April - five famous Hungarian personalities living in Slovakia, who are active in the fields of science
and culture, were awarded the "Open Europe Prize."
1998
April - beginning of the project Confidence Building in the Carpathian Basin" supported by
the Phare Democracy Program - to improve interethnic relations throughout the Carpathian region
through training programs based on continuing information concerning the core issues of inter-ethnic
tensions in the region. It plans to establish training centres in 4 countries - Slovakia, Hungary,
Poland, and Romania.
May - preparation for the elections / training sessions for candidates of the Parliament and local
governments.
1999
continuation of ongoing projects- Conflict Resolution Training
Confidence Building in the Carpathian Basin
Democracy Network
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beginning of a large-scale Roma project - solution of the problems of the Roma population in
Slovakia.
beginning of the Global Report on Hungarians in Slovakia - publication.
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Nadácia
Občan a demokracia
Minorty Aloha Group- Stovenda
Foundation Citizen and Democracy
Minority Rights Group - Slovakia
is a non-governmental non-for-profit organization working on the basis of winning the grants, and was founded in 1992
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gives opportunities to people with an activist approach to the development of democracy in Slovakia
runs the programs concerned with various branches of science and thus worked out by experts - psychologists, lawyers, expens on
political science, ethnologists, sociologists
believes in every human being to be unique and valuable and assertion of this to be a sign of tolerance and self-regard. The ethos
of MRG-S team is reflected by this idea in:
professional spread and assertion of principles of legal state and democracy
seeking alternative ways to develop civic and social responsibility
developing the cooperation that increase autonomy, freedom and positive social energy of a citizen
since 1992 also acts as an active non-for-profit organization in the field of preventive diplomacy in minority policy both in national
and International context
in its projects permanently advances the idea of an open society respecting civil and human rights, the idea of multi-ethnic and
intercultural society based upon partner dialogue renewing a social contract
aims its activities at developing and strengthening civic participation that are to a large extent complementary to activities of
governmental, non-governmental and private sector, these activities are being implemented within communities of local, national,
International or subjective character, while focusing on internalised need of a citizen/community member to contribute to public
issues by their professional and/or human potential
One of the most successful results of the MRG-S activity:
Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe - program of methodological preparation on teaching constitutional issues
consisting of series of training courses, workshops and summer schools for secondary school teachers and students of
pedagogical faculties from all regions of Slovakia.
Citizen and Democracy - book published within the program of education on constitutionalism for teachers and students of
secondary and grammar schools. Published within the program on teaching constitutional issues and implementation of
constitutionalism into the life of the Slovak society - for teachers. students and broader public - for journalists, members of
parliament, self-government representatives,
(PEW CHARITABLE TRUST,, 1995- 1999 USIS - 1998)
Civic Campaign '98 - preparation and dissemination of information materials and leaflets concentrated on voters education before
parliamentary and municipal election in the framework of the non-partisan political initiative of non-governmental organizations in
Slovakia.
(USIS, 1998)
Bajkalska 25, 827 18 Bratislava, Slovakia
tel.: +421 7 5823 3166, fax: +421 7 5341 4534, e-mail: [email protected]
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ALLIANCE OF WOMEN IN SLOVAKIA, Nábělkova 2,
841 05 Bratislava, tel+fax 00421 7 65428 147
Background goals, previous funding and activities of the organisation:
Alliance of Women in Slovakia is a citizen' movement. We have
started in January 1993 as an initiative of small group of women who had
been actively engaged in the public life already. These women gave rise to
the network of women over the whole Slovakia who felt a need to give and
to gain information and experience about life in other communities and
were willing to support actively development of civic awareness and civic
culture in their own community.
Our activity has got two roots:
One is the faith that changes in a society will become sustainable only if
they become a part of the everyday's life of women. Watching the very
slowly and uncertain changes of the post-socialistic society into a
hopefully democratic one, we were looking for possible ways to help it.
The other root is an interest in the unique situation and statute of women
in a post communistic country, which has never been mapped before, and
the chance to compare it with the situation of women in developed
western countries.
In November 1994 we managed to win a PHARE grant for the project
Women in Slovakia: Past, Present and Future. Its goals were:
1. To map present situation of women from the point of view of both, men
and women.
2. To create an informational network of women supporting each other
from various civil activities of the society and to train members in skills and
knowledge important for their activities in the society.
3. To gain attention of the society for fundamental problems of women and
to prepare public opinion for the role of women in a democratic society.
4. To support rises of local centres for future co-ordination of Alliance'
work.
An important step in our activities was creation of a network of
women (but men interested in women's issues as well). Networks "Knots" =
active women were appointed in local communities, they were mostly
members of various civil movements or NGOs, or at least Women anyhow
actively interested in public life.
A sociological survey - a quantitative one mapping the situation of
women in Slovakia (for the first time not only in Slovakia, but also in other
CEE countries as well - there has not been any survey of this kind) was done
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by the Centre for Social Analysis FOCUS using 600 questions on a
representative sample of 1 100 respondents. Its results were published under
the title SHE AND HE IN SLOVAKIA as a part of the Alliance PHARE
project.
We were quite surprised by the success of the publication. It has been
mentioned many times in various newspapers and magazines and it seems
that there is no serious work possible about women's issues in Slovakia
without quotation from this book. We also managed to win grants for
translating it into English and publishing so that it is available for foreign
experts as well. The publication was given to all members of the Alliance
and representatives of various civil groups, parliamentary committees,
decision making personalities and persons interested in women's issues as
well as to about 200 libraries.
The Alliance is interested in public and political problems of Slovakia
and reacts by writing proclamations to news agencies and by expressing our
opinion in news papers. We also write and mail so called internal.
information ii" to our members which deals as an important source of
relevant news.
We have published another two brochures:
Women in NGOs, about women's situation and motivation for the
work in non - governmental sector and
Women for a Healthy Planet, a WEDO Slovak version of a small guide
for citizens to rise their awareness in public life.
We have organised a conference on WOMEN NGOs in Bratislava in
June 1997 which was the first meeting ever and because of its great success
it has become an tradition. It will be repeated this year for the third time.
The Alliance has also contributed to creation of the international
KARAT Coalition of Women NGOs in the CEEC which was established in
Poland 1997 and was having its first meeting since in Bratislava in April
1998. In October 1998 the next meeting was held in Prague and another one
in Bucurest and Sofia.
On behalf of the Alliance of Women in Slovakia, its chairwoman
Katarina Farkašová has prepared a shadow report (to the official Slovak
Government Report) for the CEDAW Committee to the UNO Committee
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) on the
situation of women in Slovakia.
Recently we have launched activities to stop domestic violence (there
is not even a term for it in the legislation of Slovakia). In order to change the
situation of a constant lack of law experts in women issues the Alliance has
established a program of trainings for women lawyers called AdvoCats.
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Currently we are preparing a series of trainings in sensitisation of
women according to their professions - such as judges, members of
parliament, high hierarchy political parties members and others.
We prepare together with other 3 real women NGOs in Slovakia a campaign
against violence against women, called "...not even with a flower". We have
started a hot line for women in crisis - with legal advocacy.
Together with the citizens association Open People we have been
active during floods in Romani villages in the East of Slovakia in summer
1998 and together with the NGO Fenestra we prepare projects for Romany
women in order to teach them to take care of household and children.
Katarina Farkašová has co - operated in writing a chapter on
women issues of the Global report on Slovakia, IVO 1999.
In March 1999 the Alliance of Slovak Women became an advisory
body to the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights
and Minorities.
We perpare an international Conference on Trafficking of women,
further analyses according to CEDAW, an analyses of domestic violence,
round tables with responsible clerks, follow up of Advocats trainings and
other various activities.
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od : Heley Wolekovej
Fal : 5443 4711
HELENA WOLEKOVÁ- Curriculum Vitae
Helena Woleková (1946, sociologist) is the spokeperson of the Gremium of the Third Sector
since April 1999. She is representative of humanitarian and charitable organizations several
years. In the Social Policy Analysis Center Foundation she conduct research on social welfare
and nonprofit sector in Slovakia. From 1991-1992, she was minister of labor and social affairs
of the Slovak Republic.
GREMIUM OF THE THIRD SECTOR
The Gremium of the Third Sector (G3S) is created by 13 representatives of non-governmental
organizations in Slovakia elected in a democratic manner. The election of the G3S has taken
place since 1994 at the annual conference of NGOs. the Stupava Conference which took its
name from the city where NGOs leaders first met in 1991. The basic mission of the Gremium
is to develop partner relations with representatives of the state, local governments, the
business sector and unions as well as with international non-governmental oraganiations. The
task of the Gremium is to defend and pursue the interests of NGOs, to develop cooperation
and solidarity within the Third Sector, and to explain and publicize the task of the Third
Sector at home and abroad.
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Nadácia otvorenej spoločnosti - Open Society Foundation
Staromestská 6/D, 811 03 Bratislava, Slovakia
Phone: +421-7-5441 4730, 5441 6913 Fax: 5441 8867
Ludmila HELIENKOVÁ, Director Assistant
E-mail :[email protected], http://www.osf.sk
AIM AND MISSION OF THE NOS-OSF
Development of the civil society in Slovakia
ESTABLISHED
November 1992
DONORS
The main donor of the NOS-OSF is the Open Society Institute - New
York, the foundation financed by the American businessman and
philantrophist George Soros.
Nadácia otvorenej spoloènosti - Open Society Foundation (NOS - OSF)
is a part of the network of 31 autonomous national foundations in
the USA, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Africa, Haiti
and Guatemala, which are financed by the Open Society Institute - New
York supports a wide range of activities with the aim to support the
civil society development in Slovakia is one of the bigest
grantgiving foundations in Slovakia and is one of the seven founder
organizations in Slovakia
organizations of the Donor's Forum - an informal group of grantgiving
MAIN ACTIVITIES
The Open Society Foundation's main activities focus on supporting
individuals and other foundations and NGOs registered in Slovakia and
on promotion of an open, civil society through education of young
generation (various student-exchange programs, training in business
and management, postgraduate studies at prestigious universities,
humanitarian activities, cultural programs, programs in healthcare and
medicine, management and economy, development of free media, human
rights, minorities etc), local initiatives and non-profit publishing
activities. NOS-OSF also focuses on the development of intellectual
cooperation with Central and Eastern European countries and the former
Soviet Union countries.
TYPES OF SUPPORT
grants to NGOs
grants to individuals
network and national activities
NETWORK AND NATIONAL CHARACTER OF NOS-OSF PROGRAMS
Network programs
These programs are organized directly by the Open Society Institute -
New York or Open Society Institute Budapest. Network programs react to
situation and problems common to a number of Central and Eastern
European countries. Final decisions about grants programs are made on
the international level.
National programs
These programs are specific for the Slovak Republic. The NOS-OSF board
decides on the program strategies and structures, while boards which
work along with the respective programs decide on grants for
individuals and institutions
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People and
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Association
Ing-, PhD. Jaroslav Telliar
Forestry engineer (graduated at the Forestry Faculty of Technical University, Zvolon,
Slovakia
One of the founding members of People And Water, he started to work for this NGO after 15
years of praxis in areas of sustainable landscape ecology and regional develompent.
In the NCO he works as a program manager and project co-ordinator at a non-governmental
level. His work includes co-ordinating of all the regional sectores (decision making, bussiness
and civil ), to participate increating a the regional strategy for sustainable development, based
on principles of partnership. Complex sustainable regional development strategy as A tool for
improving the life conditions of the inhabitants, and Increasing the quality of their life
He is also responsible for communications and management of projects with foreign partners.
Married, with two children.
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Non-governmental non-profit organisation
People And Water
Pražská 4, 040 11 Košice
Tel/fax: ++421 95 6428 184, ++421 95 6423 475
E-mail: [email protected]
Home page: www.changenct.sk/mvolav/
The mission of the organization "People And Water" is to provide services to
municipal and rural communities. The goals are to solve the economic, social,
cultural and environmental problems on я grassroots level by encouraging citizens
to be proactive through development, renewal and promotion of the traditional
culture and diversity of this region.
We Are Here for the People
Nearly seven years ago we started the new local organization, The Slovak Association for
Protection or Nature Our goal was W prepare all alternative wates management concept, "Wale, for
the 3 Millennium". We did not anticipate what we were going to face in our quest for attaining this
sustainable development. Today, when we are evaluating more than six years of our existence, there is
no doubt that our docision was corrool. For the first time in Slovakia, the environmental NGO abotor
has produced alternative programs that offer our society more economical, socially productive and
ecologically more acceptable solutions w relevant problems related to the environment.
During the preparation of our proactive programs ("Water for the 3rd Millennium", "Blue
Alternative", "An Alternative Water Management Conception for Eastern Slovakia", "Village of the
3rd Millennium In the Carpathian Euroregion"), based on grassroots principles, we have personally folt
that this is the best and most effective way towards the solution of the problems facing Slovak society
today. These are, unfortunately, tossed about in serious economic, social, cultural and environmental
problems. It is even more important from the point of view of a society that has suffered the trauma of
communist ideology, which had been preventing a free competition of independent ideas and
alternative solutions of problems for decades.
We are here for the people, have strived, and will continue to strive to help people to
understand that there are more economical, socially more righteous. culturally more valuable and
environmentally more acceptable solutions, which will satisfy the needs of public. At the same time,
it will enrich us by. providing a more tolerant-and humanistic relationship with the whole living and
non-living nature. including man. This is what we, leaders and voluntoors, friends and supporters of
our non-profit organization, "People And Water", strive for. We are here, and we specifically want to
participate in solving the problems of Slovak society and of the whole BLUE PLANET.
Strategic Objectives
"People And Water" is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the preparation of
alternative development programs and the realization of related practical projects, based on principles
of sustainability. Co-oporation with our partners is based on specific expertise in given arcas, and we
co-operate with local sclf-govcrnments and regional, national and International authorities and
institutions.
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After a successful campaign against the construction of the central government- promoted dam
at upper Torysa river, and the success of our alternative proposal, the NGO " People And Water"
could have left this region and just dedicated itsclf purely to the solutions of problems in the
environmental and other problem arcas. Instcad WC have decided to continue our promising CO-
operation wills local people and to help 21 villages in the Upper Torysa region to roach sustainability
of their existence. Wc consider this form of complex regional development of a given area
exceptionally beneficial also from the long-torm point of view, especially in conditions of still
officially promoted contralised management of economy in Slovakia.
Long-term objective of our NGO is in create a small, nill nextble and very functional team.
which will provide, in partnership with various other organisations, expertise and advisory services, in
compliance with principles of sustainability, especially for rural arcas both in Slovakin and abroad. In
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communities and various other target groups. We also want to involve them in solving the economic,
social, cultural and environmental problems of the rural area in the region of Levoda Hills. We would
be pleased if these activities could serve as a model of sustainable life also for other nural areas.
We: want to become a non-governmental organization with professional level of strategic
planning, responsible financial management, a good reputation and a solid position as an expert
advisor on a regional, national and international scale. One of our main priorities for the following
period is to stabilize financial and personal conditions of our work through ensuring resources for
long-term financing of our projects.
Activities
Activities of the non-profit organization People And Watcr", since its very beginning, have
been oriented in research, creation, promotion and realization of sustainable development programs
for utilization of natural resources. During the live years of our existence. we have concentrated on the
following main development programs:
I.
Water for the 3rd Milleanium (An alternative water management concept for Slovakia). This
program was based on a reform of water management institutions, with emphasis on
application of subsidiary principle and decentralization or economic power in solving water
management problems, and on respecting ecologically sustainable development practices in
the watersheds of Slovakia, as defined in AGENDA 21. The program was launched in 1993
and on June 2, 1994, Slovak Parliament ruled that the Slovak Government must include it into
the official water management policy of Slovakia.
11.
Blue Alternative (An alternative program for creation. protection and utilization of water
resources for water management in the Upper Torysa region). To strengthen civic society and
democracy in rural communities, and to save historical villages in the Upper Torysa region,
our organisation prepared in 1994 a new philosophy for creation of water resources. With a
continuing campaign and other follow up activities, we have managed to change public
opinion and to influence competent authorities in such a way that in November 1997, the
Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic did not recommend the dam construction.
II.
Village of the 3rd Millennium in the Carpathian Euroregion (A complex conception of
regional development, based on activation of human resources of rural communities, as a pilot
model for promotion of civic democracy in solving of cconomic, social, cultural and
environmental problems of disadvantaged regions).
111.
Village and Democracy under the Levoča Hills (A part of civic campaign OK '98 for a just
parliamentary and communal elections in Slovakia in 1998). Due to our experience with rural
communities, our organization participated in civic campaign OK '98'' in four counties under
the Lovoča Hills. Our volunteers distributed 150 thousand various informational materials in
this region aimed to increase the informativeness of voters before parliamentary and
communal elections. We have also organized 14 discussion forums for candidates on Members
of Purliament and mayors.
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ROBERT VLASIC
NOS
Bieloruská 43, 821 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
Telephone: ++421-7-4524 7222 (Home), ++421-905-435 114 (Cellular),
+421-7-5024 4189, 5024 4197 (Work), Fax: ++421-7-5024 4282, Email: [email protected]
Work Experience:
August 1999 - present
Nadácia pre obciansku spoločnosť (NOS). Bratislava, Slovakia
Executive Director
Communication and cooperation with Board of Directors, contact with partners and official institutions,
reporting of NOS to the public, oversee planning, management, assessment, and evaluation of all programming
and other activities related to NOS, maintain relationship with donors.
November 1998 -August 1999 Nadácia pre občiansku spoločnost (NOS). Bratislava, Slovakia
Program Officer, Via Bona Slovakia Corporate Citizenship Award
Developed and implemented program including identification of donors, writing of proposals together with
budgets and timelines, marketing, nomination and evaluation criteria, created high profile selection committee,
prepared final narrative and financial report, identified donors for the next year Award and possible partner
organization in Hungary to help create and develop similar Award
June 1995 - October 1998
The Foundation for a Civil Society (FCS), Bratislava, Slovakia
Program Officer, Democracy Network (DemNet) Program
Consulted with DemNet grantees to prepare and hold press events, including development of press releases,
media lists, and press kits, and research on a possible nation-wide media campaign for the non-profit sector;
provided consultations for NGO grant applicants on how to write successful proposals, appropriate budgets,
and realistic time-plans; organized all arrangements connected with the DemNet expert evaluation process.
June 1994 - May 1995
International Republican Institute (IRI). Bratislava, Slovakia
Assistant Program Officer
Organized seminars and workshops for local and national political figures as part of a US Government funded
project; focused on improving election campaign skills among local politicians, specifically planning,
fundraising, speech-making, public appearance, and public and media outreach; provided logistical,
organizational, and interpreting support to the American program officer.
Sept. 1992 - Sept. 1993 Christian Democratic Youth of Slovakia
April 1992 - July 1992 State-owned Construction Company "ZIPP"
Education:
Sept. 1986 - Aug. 1990 Middle School, Bratislava, Slovakia
Oct. 1990 - Mar. 1992 Military Service, Prostejov, Czech Republic
Courses and Training:
Oct. 1993 - May 1994
European Studies Course, Bonn, Germany
Participated in a two-semester course dedicated to the history of European art, philosophy, political science,
and political geography. Further study concentrated on issues related to the European Union - economic and
development policy, the Maastricht Treaty, European law, and Union structures and institutions.
Membership
March 1998 - present Open Society Foundation, Bratislava - Community Program Board of Directors
Languages and Computer Skills:
English - spoken and written; German - spoken; Slovak - native
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Corel
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Date of the birth:
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Education:
1972 - 1977
Faculty of Arts, Commenius University, Bratislava
Aesthetics and Adult Education
1969 - 1972
Secundary School, Bratislava
Employnment
1995 -
Executive Director, Open Society Foundation, Bratislava
1993 - 1995
Program Coordinator
Publishing House Pravda, Bratislava
Language editor
I am married, mother of 2 children / 18 Katarina, 14 Vladimir- both are students 1.
alena Paniliova
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SLOVAKIA
EDUCATION:
1971 - 1977 Academy of Drama Arts, film and TV dramaturgy and screen - play
writing, Magister (Mgr.) degree- equivalent to M.A.
1976 - 1978 School of Languages - English and German, state exams
1990 - 2 months in U.S.A. Programme for Film - - makers, USIA
1993 - 2 weeks in Academia International Liberdade e Desenvolvimento in Sintra,
Portugal - Post Communist Countries in Transition to Democracy
1996- - University of Cambridge: Certificate of Proficiency in English
1997- - Montreal, Canada, Summer school of human Rights at Canadian Human
Rights Foundation
Seminars for human rights trainers (CHRF): 1997 Kyiev, 1999 Tashkent-
Samarkand
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1977 - 1991 Slovak Film Studios, script editor of feature films, author of radio - -
plays, translations of screen - plays
after 1989:
- Member of the Translators Association
- Member of the Committee for Radio and TV "Pro Slovakia"
at the Ministry of Culture
- Member of Council of Government for Mass Media Policy
Member of the Federal Committee of Foundations in the Czechoslovak Federation
(all these activities have finished after the election in 1992 and the division of
Czechoslovakia and the period of Mr. Meciar as a prime minister).
- co- founder of Amnesty International group in Slovakia
- working on the creation of a multicultural magazine for children (Sasopis), not
realised of financial reasons
1991 - 1994 Head of the Slovak Office of Friedrich Naumann Foundation, creating
and managing programmes to develop and support the liberal - democratic strengths
in Slovakia (Economic club, Club of Mayors publication Rights of Towns and their
Protection, Investigative journalism, School of Democracy for the Youth, Seminars
on Human Rights + publication Basic Documents on Human Rights), organising of
seminars, workshops and conferences.
1993 - Co. - founder of Alliance of Women of Slovakia
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1996 Foundation Partners for Democratic Change - Regional Centre Director,
trainer 1994 - of communication, negotiation, conflict resolution (Trainings in Prague,
Bratislava, Budapest)
1995 - Co - founder of Karat Coalition, international network of women
organisations 1998 - Open People - association of further citizens of an open society"
Married since 1981 to Boris Farkas, children Kristina 17, Ondrej 11
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JAROSLAV TESLIAR. Ph.D.
Kisdyho 7
040 01 Košice, SLOVAKIA
[002]:
DATE OF BIRTH
(b)(6)
NATIONALITY
Slovak
MARITAL STATUS
Married with 2 children
WORK ADDRESS
NGO People and Water
Prazská 4
040 11 Košice 11
SLOVAKIA
Tel/Fax. (42-95) 6428 184
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. - University of Forestry and Wood Technology, Zvolen, Slovakia
1991
Engineering Diploma - University of Forestry and Wood Technology, Zvolen, Slovakia 1978
Secondary School- - Technical Secondary School of Forcetry, Prešov, Slovakia
1973
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Fluent English, Ruosian, Caooh, and Slovak (reading, writing, and opeaking)
Passive - German
FIELDS OF SPECIAL COMPETENCE
NGO Managing people and projects, fundraising, using facilitation and negotiation skilla,
international communications and cooperation.
Professional - - Agro-forestry, Forestry, Landscape Ecology. and Landscape planning.
Mr. Jaroslav Todliar, NCO People and Water, Kolice, Blovakla
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Environmental NCO People and Water, Kollee, Slovakia
1994 to Present
Title: Program Manager. AR a full-time Program Manager nt People and Water, 1 am leading
and managing projects on the NGO level that are based on training and realization of sustainable
Alternative colutions for regional development strategy, I am responsible for international
communication as the executive director of Slovak Pivers Network Accosiation of My
professional background began during University studies and continucs today at the NGO level as
a manager of sustainable projects. I am able to use my education and work experience that I had
in a multi disciplinary team during the preparation of sustainable regional development plans to
successfully implement work on the local and regional level. In this position I have been able to
work with motivated and active people where I have been able to work on many projects at once
while fulfilling deadlines. I am also active in fund-raising, strategic plarming, and office
organization for our office. Except for my role in fund-raising, managing projects, and other
basic needs within our organization, I assist in our mission 10 involve local citizens and increase
public awareness, and to help strengthen the existing notwork between NGOs. I am also
interested in strengthening the cooperation between NGOs and local and state governments.
Related to my NGO work, in 1994, I graduated from a one month long fellowship program in the
U.S. in a watershed fellowship program. In 1996, I participated in a one month study stay in the
U.S. trough a USAID-sponsored training program in the area of environmental NGO
management,
Urban Forests Košice, Ltd., Kolice, Slovakia
1993 - 1994
Title: Deputy 10 the Director. In this commercial company, I worked in non-productive
activities including urban, landscape planning and water functions within the forests in our area
with focus on the problems of sustainable environment.
Forest Research Institute, Zvolen, Research Station Kolice, Slovakia.
1988 - 1993
Title: Independent Research Specialist. I studied the influence of forests and windbreaks on
surrounding agro-ceosystems (microelimate) as an important part of landscape ecological plan as
a tool for local and regional development planning.
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Blulogy and Ecology, Bradslaya,
Shivakia
1981 - 1988
Research Station Košice. Title: Research Specialist. I performed research on ecosystems and
their fragments in the urban used arcas as a basic approach for proposing optimal local and
regional plans. I also covered these topics during my doctoral thesis and education.
Faculty of Forestry, University of Wood Technology and Forestry, Dept. of Botany and
Phytocenology, Zvolen, Slovakia.
1978 - 1981
Title: Research Assistant. 1 performed research on landscape ecology particularly with the
various stands along streams and rivers, the effect on deforestation practices in the pash and
Mr. Jaraslav Tosliur, NGO People and Water, Kosioo, Slovuklu
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Democracy
Sariota Pufflerová, PhD.
Born
(b)(6)
in
(b)(6)
[003]
Education & working experience
1978 - 1982
Comenius University, Bratislava; 1982 - undergraduate degree in psychology;
1984 / graduate degree in psychology.
1982 - 1990
The Institute of Experimental Psychology, The Slovak Academy of Sciences; study
stay / research assistent (from 1986 working on PhD, disertation; "The Role of
Cognitive Styles and Abilities in Solving Computer Aided Complex Cognitive
Tasks", awarded in 1992).
1990 - 1993
The Department of Social and Biological Communication, The Slovak Academy of
Sciences: researcher and the member of the Council of the Scientists of the Slovak
Academy of Sciences.
1993 1994
Training course of the British Institute of Management; awarded the Certificate of
the Trainer for the Trainers of Management
1993 - 1994
April /May 1993 - postdoctoral study stay in the Institute of Environmental and
Minority Law, University of Lapland, Finland; project manager and coordinator in
Minority Rights Group - Slovakia Foundation; two projects implemented in
partnership with Minority Rights Group International (London), second also with
Partners of Democratic Change - Slovakia (Bratislava) : Minority Rights and
Pluralist Democracy. 92/245/G, and the project Education Towards Human Rights,
92/191/B, both in the framework of The PHARE Democracy Programme; the
common project with the Open Society Fund The Improvement of the
Communication In the Roma Community: the project funded by British Know How
Fund The Improvement of the Relation Between the Representatives of the Roma
and the Police.
1995 - 1999
Executive director and program manager in the Minority Rights Group - - Slovakia
Foundation: since August 1997 the statutory representative of the Citizen and
Democracy Foundation, Minority Rights Group - Slovakia; coordinator of the
Slovak part of the five-year Costitutionalism in Central and Eastem Europe Project
funded by the American foundation Pew Charitable Trusts consisting of the two-
year training programms for secondary school teachers and the preparation of the
resource materials concerning the constitutional law issues in practice, essential
principles of democracy and human rights; coordinator of two complementary
projects Training Programme of the Education Towards Constitutionalism (PHARE)
and Citizen and Democracy - Resource Publication on the Slovak Constitution
(USIS); coordinator of the project supporting Civic Campaign '98 (USIS) and the
spokesperson for this campaign - OK '98 (as a volunteer): advisor for other ongoing
projects within the Citizen and Democracy Foundation, e.g. Discussion Fora
Concerning Co-existence of Minorties and Majority, Training Programme for Students of
Law on Human Rights, Advocacy Training on Human Rights...
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marai
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Slovakia
Foundation
421-7 5292 44 89
421-709 5527 865
Péter Hunčík
Personal
Information
Marital status:
married
Nationality:
Hungarian
Age:
47
Place of Birth: Sahy, Slovakia
Work
1993 - present
experience
Director of the Sándor Márai Foundation
Bratislava, Slovakia.
Founder of Ethnic Conflict Training Centers in Slovakia organized by the
Sándor Márai Foundation in the framework of the Ethnic Conflict
Resolution project.
1990 - 1992
Advisor to President Václav Havel in minority and human rights issues.
1985-present
Psychiatrist in Velký Meder, Slovakia. As a doctor engages in the issues
of communication, interpersonal relationships, suicide, and sexual
problems.
1979-1985
School and district doctor in Dunajská Streda.
Education
1997-98
Completed several conflict resolution and communication training in
the USA, UK, Canada, and Hungary.
1970 - 1976
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Graduated from General Practice at the Comenius Medical School,
Bratislava, Slovakia.
1966 - 1970
Secondary Grammar School - Sahy, Slovakia
Other activities
1993
Founder of the independent TV company NOVA in the Czech Republic.
1992
Co-founder of CET 21 (Central European Television). Winner of a
television licence in Slovakia withdrawn by the Slovak govemment.
1989
Co-founder of the first independent political movement in Czecho-
Slovakia, Independent Hungarian Initiative.
Founder of the first independent newspaper in Czecho-Slovakia, NAP
(The Sun).
Languages
Fluent in Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, English. Conversant in Russian.
Patents and
Author and co-author of numerous books, publications, and poems.
publications
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Blumentálska 19, 816 13 Bratislava
Slovak
Humanitarian
CURRICULUM VITAE
Council
Name :
Bohuslava
Surname :
Zániová
Education
Faculty of Industry Economy, University of Economy,
Bratislava
Working experience:
1968- 1981 economist in different indistrial companies
1981 - 1994 economist in state social sphere:
Association of Disabled People
Retirements homes
1994 - 1995 economist and Director Deputy of Slovak
Humanitarian Council
Present occupation :
Slovak Humanitarian Council Office Director
NGO experience :
1990 - 1994 volunteer - Chairman of Supervisory
Board of Slovak Humanitarian Council
1994 - 1999 volunteer - Special Olympics Slovakia
Bratislava 4.10.1999
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Marda Vašáryová
Curriculum Vitac
Foreign
Policy
Born:
(b)(6)
Association
Educational backpround:
[004]
1971 Graduated from Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
М.Л. in Sociology
Profesional background:
1970-1989 Actress
Worked with prominent theaters. 120 premiers
Slovak National Thenter, Nová Scéna, Divadlo DA Korze. de.
Acted in 50 films and 80 television plays.
Film credit include starring roles in:
Postfizing best comedy
Marketa Lazarová. award of Cycch film Academy Best movie ever made in
ezech Republic and annong 10 best historical movies of the world
Tichá radost, Siruty il viáčkovia, etc.
1990-1993 Czechoslovak Ambassador to Austria
1993 Executive Director and Founder
Slovak Foreign Policy Association - an independent association promoting
education and study of Slovak foreign policy issues.
Lecturer at Comenius University
Publications: "Kritke listy prvému mestu autobiography dedicated to natal town
1 anguages: Slovak. German, English, Russian, Polish, Scrbo-Croatian, basic French
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Emilia Sičáková
Family name:
Sičákova
[005]
First name:
Emilia
Bom:
(b)(6)
Nationality:
Slovak
Civil status:
single
Home address:
Tmava pri Laborci 128
072 31 Michalovce
Slovakia
Tel. (00421 946) - 492517,
e-mail: [email protected] http://www.cphr.sk/
Office address:
Center for Economic Development - - Transparency
International Slovakia
Bajkalská 25
827 18 Bratislava
Tel: (004217) 53411020
Fax: (004217) 58233487
e-mail: [email protected]
Education:
1993 - 1998 University of Economics, Bratislava
Degree: MSc.
since September 1998 - Ph.D. student
Awards:
awarded the Prize of the Dean from Commercial
Faculty for the research, results and activities during the
university studies
awarded the University Rector's Prize and announced
the best student
Professional experience:
September 1997 - present
Researcher
Center for Economic Development
Bajkalská 25, 827 18 Bratislava
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Responsible for researching complex issues, monitoring and analyzing economic data
and writing articles and studies.
Participating on the project: Transparency in the Slovak economy I. Responsible for
conducting the research on that issues in Slovak economy.
Realizing the research focused on granting licenses.
Participating on international project: Transparency in public procurement conducted
with Hungarian and Albanian partners.
Participating on the project evaluating Phare Programme for SMEs.
Active participation on Annual General Meeting of national chapters of Transparency
International in Kuala Lumpur (September 1998).
Active participation on International workshop on Report Cards - Bangalore, India
(February 1999).
Since May 1999 till July 1999 participant of program organized by Freedom House
that enabled staying in Transparency International USA and World Bank.
Present position:
President of local - Slovak chapter of Transparency
International that operates within the structure of CPHR
as its organizational unit
Language skills:
Fluent Slovak, Czech, Russian, English
can research and work in Spanish
Other skills;
(e.g. computer literacy, etc.) Win 95, MS Office
Publications:
E. Sičáková, E. Jurzyca, P. Svec: Transparency in the
Slovak Economy, CPHR, September 1998
E. Sičáková, D. Zemanovičová: Competition method of
license granting, CPHR, September 1998
E. Sičákova: Transparency and Hidden Economy -
mutually contradicting phenomena, CPHR, September
1999
E. Sičáková: Faces of Corruption in Slovakia, CPHR-
TIS, September 1999
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Katarina Košťálová
Katarina Kostálová, a graduate of the Philosophical Faculty of
Comenius University in Bratislava, is currently the Director of the
Service Center for the Third Sector of the Slovak Academic
Information Agency - Service Center for the Third Sector.
Prior to joining SAIA-SCTS she was the North American desk-
officer at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Slovak
Republic (1990-1991). She also coordinated the program
Education for Democracy which has placed more than 1,200
volunteer teachers of English from the U.S.A., Canada and Great
Britain throughout Slovakia. In 1993 she participated in the Third
Sector Project of the Institute for Policy Studies, The Johns
Hopkins University.
She has served on several boards and committees of national and
international foundations. Currently she is a chairwoman of the
Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Fund for the
Development of the Carpathian Euroregion, a member of the
program panel of the Children Foundation in Slovakia, a Chair of
the Advisory Board of the Civil Society Project of the European
Foundation Centre ORPHEUS Program, joined by over 25 NGO
resource centres from Central and Eastern Europe. She has
presented Slovak NGO sector and facilitated discussions dealing
with civil society on several international fora.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Dev't in Italy
CULTURE COUNTS
Financing, Resources, and the Economics of Culture in Sustainable Development
Florence, Italy - October 4-7, 1999
Thematic Working Group 4 - Culture and National Millennium Commissions
Fortezza da Basso
Palazzina Lorenese Bronzino Room
October 6, 1999
Greeting: Honorable Lindy Boggs - U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
Welcome and overview: Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, Director
White House Millennium Council
Session I: National Millennium Commissions - Cultural Updates - 5 minutes per country
Canada -- Barbara Uteck
Costa Rica - to be determined
Russia - Sergei Kortunov
France -- Marie-Jose Sanselme
Spain - Ramon Gonzalez
Hungary - Lazlo Baan
Ukraine - Juri Avksentjev (tbd)
Norway - Willy Jensen
United Kingdom - Clare Pillman
Iceland - Amb. Einar Benediktsson
United States - Ellen Lovell
Israel - Vardit Kaplan
Vatican -- Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli
Italy - Caterina Cardona
Luncheon 12:30 - 2:00 Place to be determined
Session II: Multilateral Millennial Cultural Programs
Stop Racism - Canada: Barbara Uteck
EXPO 2000 - Germany: Berend Hartnagel
Heritage Trails and Pilgrimage Trails - Norway: Berit Lanke/United States:Eugene Conti
Global Millennium Web Site - United Kingdom
Gifts to the Future Day - United States: Ellen McCulloch-Lovell
CULTURE COUNTS
Financing, Resources, and the Economics of Culture in Sustainable Development
Florence, Italy - October 4-7, 1999
Thematic Working Group 4 - Culture and National Millennium Commissions
Fortezza da Basso
Palazzina Lorenese Bronzino Room
October 6, 1999
Culture and the National Millennium Commissions
Synopsis of Session
Nearly fifty (50) countries decided to mark the new century and the millennium by
establishing official commissions, or by designating independent entities to promote the cultural
and natural heritage of their nations.
In late 1997, it became apparent that national millennium commissions shared many of
the same aspirations and faced a number of the same practical issues. In 1998, the governments
of Italy and the United States, with assistance from the Howard Gilman Foundation, provided an
international forum for the national commissions to compare their respective cultural millennium
programs, and to discuss cooperative efforts. The Millennium Commissions throughout the
world continued to meet periodically and foster ideas and programs for the 21st century.
All the participants were impressed to find that at least six common themes dominate the
work of the Millennium Commissions: demonstrating how science and technology shape the
future, sustaining the environment, promoting the well-being of children and youth, creating
trails and pilgrimages, preserving cultural heritage and preservation, and bringing people
together for peace and reconciliation.
Many countries are commemorating their heritage and promoting sustainability through
Heritage trails that journey through their history, and preserve environments to provide both
recreation and spiritual pilgrimages. Countries are harnessing this historic time to showcase
their national historic treasures, artistic traditions, and diversity. They are challenging their
citizens to envision their future. Preserving heritage is essential to sustaining development and
retaining community identity.
Commissions are engaged in impressive initiatives to honor their past - looking back at
their histories and appreciating more about how they became nations and peoples of the world.
These millennium initiatives have raised awareness of historic treasures across the globe that
stand at risk of deterioration, in the hope that they and the cultural heritage they embody may be
safeguarded for future generations.
The Millennium Commissions are addressing these critical community concerns through
a broad variety of programs. From designated Millennium town spaces in the 435 communities
in Norway; to restoration of city park in the Untied Kingdom; to sponsoring community festivals
in Mexico; and to designating Millennium communities in the United States, there is an urgent
recognition that viable communities offer their citizens a cultural and economically sustainable
path to the future.
Although most Millennium Commissions have an overwhelming responsibility to engage
citizens in the goals, several cooperative programs have emerged. The National Millennium
Commissions are joining together to invite youth to address the challenge of racism
and ethnic intolerance throughout the world. Another coordinated effort will promote
philanthropy, and ask young people to give gifts to the future. The Commissions are linking
together through a universal website listing their activities to commemorate the 21ˢᵗ century. It is
in this spirit that the National Millennium Commissions convene again under the auspices of the
World Bank Conference on Financing, Resources, and the Economics of Culture in Sustainable
Development to encourage the preservation and promotion of culture in communities around the
world.
CULTURE COUNTS
Financing, Resources, and the Economics of Culture in Sustainable Development
Florence, Italy - October 4-7, 1999
Thematic Working Group 4 - Culture and National Millennium Commissions
Fortezza da Basso
Palazzina Lorenese Bronzino Room
October 6, 1999
9:15a.m. --4:15p.m.
Florence Participants:
Canada -- Barbara Uteck
Costa Rica - to be determined
France -- Marie-Jose Sanselme;Etienne Achille
Germany-- Berend Hartnagel
Hungary - Laszlo Baan
Iceland - Amb. Einar Benediktsson
Israel - Vardit Kaplan; Mr. Elia
Italy - Caterina Cardona
Norway - Willy Jensen; Berit Lanke
Russia - Sergey Kortunov; Masha Kortunov;Sergey Shurygin
Spain - Ramon Gonzalez;Dr. Kurt Grotsch; Javier Torres
Ukraine - Juri Avksentjev (tbd)
United Kingdom - Clare Pillman
Vatican-Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli
US Government Delegates
Embassies/ Consulate
-Ellen McCulloch-Lovell
-Hon. Lindy Boggs
-Sec. Bonnie Cohen
-Hon. Thomas Foglietta
-Michael Scanlin
-Hon. Lari Martinez
-Sec. Eugene Conti
-Jennifer Dudley
-Caroline Croft
-Stefania Iorio Caciula
-Gregory Lagana/Daniela Masci
-Evelyn McWade
-Anthony Green
These participants should also be included in the keynote address by First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton on October 7, 1999 at the World Bank conference.
THE WORLD BANK
July 28, 1999
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC
Dear Mrs. Clinton,
On behalf of the Government of Italy and the World Bank, in cooperation with
UNESCO, it is our honor to invite you to a conference on financing, resources, and the
economics of culture in sustainable development, "Culture Counts," October 4-7, 1999.
The conference opens Monday at 10:30, in Florence, Italy, at the Palazzo Vecchio.
The urgent need for financing and resource mobilization is a key message in the
report of the Wold Commission on Culture and Development, Our Creative Diversity.
UNESCO's Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development
(Stockholm, March-April 1998), called on governments to "make more human and
financial resources available for cultural development."
Italy and the World Bank are joined in their concern that a greater international
effort is required to assure that culture and cultural heritage is considered in the context
of development. Italy is engaged in a wide range of activities to support countries in
their efforts to preserve, to study, and to promote their culture and cultural heritage, and
to integrate these elements in their development policies.
In the context of the Comprehensive Development Agenda, the World Bank is
undertaking a series of initiatives to advance financing for preserving and enhancing
cultural assets within client countries, as component of, or as stand-alone development
projects. The objectives of the Bank's effort is to provide new opportunities for poor
communities to grow out of poverty, to encourage local level development, to conserve
and generate revenues from existing physical assets, to strengthen social capital, to
expand the opportunities for education, and to provide and/or improve attention to the
cultural aspects of infrastructure.
In cooperation with
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
The Florence conference is to provide opportunities and platforms for an
examination of the important aspects of financing culture, the built, social, and natural
assets. Thematic Working Groups organized by different partners will consider a variety
of issues, approaches, and possible funding strategies that can lead to mobilizing
resources.
The conference will provide fora in which the convening partners, developing
countries, the Bank, UNESCO, other international organizations and institutions, the
private sector, and other partners can assess a) policies with respect to culture, b) possible
funding approaches and vehicles, and c) the future potentials of existing partnerships.
The conference will consider questions of financing, valuation, mobilization,
investments, and the sustainable management of cultural components in development
projects. Participants will address how the financing of their endeavors in the cultural
realm might be widened and deepened; reflect upon field experiences in preservation and
the enhancement of cultural heritage; promote traditional and contemporary art and
overall cultural policy formulation, and consider development policies with culture
imbedded in the financing of other sectors.
We are very hopeful that your schedule will allow you to attend. We have
requested that the conference coordinator provide you with more specific details. We look
forward to learning of your possible participation.
Sincerely,
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Lamberto Dini
James D. Wolfensohn
Italian Minister
President
for Foreign Affairs
The World Bank Group
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ANNOTATED CONFERENCE PROGRAM
"Culture Counts"
Financing, Resources and the Economics of Culture
in Sustainable Development
Florence, Italy
October 4-7, 1999
Convened by the
Government of Italy
and the
World Bank
in cooperation with UNESCO
The premise of the conference is that culture is of crucial importance for sustainable
development. : The objective is to expand the resources available for culture in
sustainable development programs, the range of institutions and actors that are involved
in culture with a development perspective, and the instruments to be used for these
programs. The conference will provide a forum for experts and key decision-makers to
discuss the full range of economic and financial issues linked to the cultural dimensions
of poverty alleviation in developing countries.
July 29
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MONDAY MORNING, October 4
Palazzo Vecchio
Keynote speeches
These opening keynote speeches present the broad issues to be addressed in the
conference and its vision.
The importance of culture in sustainable development programs of poverty reduction
The need for new partnerships among multilateral development agencies, bilateral,
the private sector, foundations, NGOs, and academia, to support culture for
sustainable development
Session I: Culture and Sustainable Development: Threats and Tensions
This session is to provide an overall assessment of:
the effects on culture of current market and development trends
the resources available to support culture in developing countries
the state of "culture" in developing countries
MONDAY AFTERNOON, October 4
(And remainder of the conference)
Fortezza da Basso
Session II: The Role of Culture in Development
This session sets the analytical and theoretical framework. The session will address
issues relating to:
Culture from an economic, anthropological, and social perspective
To what extent cultural values relate to economic development and contribute to the
wealth of nations?
How national and local cultural industries are contributing to employment
generation and social cohesion in developing countries
Promoting "progressive" cultural values
TUESDAY MORNING, October 5
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Session III: Policies for Culture in Sustainable Development
This session will address the factors that a developing country should consider
addressing culture. What are the dilemmas? (Cultural heritage vs. living culture,
cultural conservation vs. culture production, monuments vs. communities, etc.) How
should priorities be established among funding culture and other sectors, i.e. health and
basic human needs? What are the possible social outcomes of the use of culture as
development tool? What policies exist that support the case for investing in culture as a
contributor to social cohesion, quality education, creating social capital, addressing
poverty?
Session IV: Multilateral Development Banks: Development Impact of
Cultural Programs and Projects
This session provides a forum for the Multilateral Development Banks to discuss their
policies to support sectoral policies and investments in culture. The session presents best
practice cases with a strong development impact. Presentation will be made both of
policy papers and projects, with some assessments of how financing culture affected a
country's economy, reduced poverty, improved social cohesion, urban and/or rural
development, education. Among the issues to be discussed:
Do you have? Do по harm policies
What made these cultural projects successful
What lessons can be learned from these success stories
Session Va: Bilateral Development Agencies: Development Impact
(concurrent) of Cultural Programs and Projects
This session will include the presentation of cases of investment projects in culture--by
bilateral development agencies--with strong developmental impact on local employment,
social cohesion, and education. Presentations will provide quantitative assessment of the
development impact of the projects undertaken.
How cultural programs relate to educational programs
Should the activities be restricted to cultural heritage programs or also to non
tangible aspects of culture
Did these programs create new opportunities for the poor?
Are their social, cultural, and environmental benefits?
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Session Vb: Resources for Culture in a Multicultural Society:
(concurrent) Private Sector and Foundation Experience
This concurrent session provides a forum for discussion on the trends in corporations,
foundations, NGOs and advocacy groups in advocating or providing resources for
culture in development. The discussion will focus on success stories and will aim at
answering questions such as:
What makes investing in culture appealing to the private sector
What evidence is there as to the return to the private sector in the short and long-term
How to protect the integrity of cultural assets in a marketing context.
How is it possible to reach a wider involvement of private sector and civil society
Examples of successful private/public partnerships
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, October 5
Session VIa: Constraints on Resources for Culture in
(concurrent) Developing Countries
Perceived dilemmas in short-term versus long-term solutions? Can investments in
culture benefit from and-in turn--be beneficial to a more comprehensive development
framework? This concurrent session provides a forum of discussion for top government
officials in developing and donor countries to voice their policies and financial
constraints in their advocacy for culture. Among the issues to be discussed are:
Should development institutions help and how
Would new institutional instruments help the funding of culture in development
What are the constraints that ministers of culture and finance in developing countries
face in financing culture
SessionVIb: Civil Society, Indigenous People, and Cultural
(concurrent) Development
This session is to examine how to mobilize resources for culture through civil society and
indigenous people involvement. The session will also discuss issues such as the tension
between preservation and modernization of cultural values and gender issues related to
culture. Case studies and success stories will provide some answers.
Seminars: Investments in Culture: Making It Work
These seminars will address the instruments and techniques needed for supporting
culture in sustainable development. The aim of the sessions is to provide specific
information that can help development planning address the complex interface of
infrastructures, culture assets, multicultural interests, valuation, and implementation
challenges. Presentations include the following topics:
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Alternative institutional approaches and legal frameworks for supporting culture in
sustainable development
Application of economic evaluation of projects
Role and instruments of partnerships
Seminars:
(i)
UNESCO
Investing in the Tangible and
Intangible of Intercultural Dialogue
(ii)
UNESCO
Measuring Culture and Constructing
Cultural Indicators: Prospects and
Limits
(iii)
IUCN/
Call for a Culture and Environment
The Mountain Institute
Compact. The Example of the
World's Mountain Agenda
(iv)
ICCROM
Valuing Cultural Assets
(v)
Aga Khan Trust
Private/Public Partnerships for
Community Development
(vi)
The World Bank
The World Bank's Approach to
Culture and Sustainable
Development: The Opportunities
Ahead
WEDNESDAY, October 6
Thematic Working Groups: Advancing the Knowledge, Capacities, Economic
Analysis and the Financing of Culture and Cultural
Heritage in Sustainable Development
Thematic Working Groups
Thematic Working Group 1
Theme: Cathedrals for Environment. Financing Culture and Nature for Generation to Come
Organizers: IUCN
Thematic Working Group 2
Theme: Cultural Economics, Identity and Poverty Reduction
Organizers: The World Bank
Thematic Working Group 3
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Theme: Culture and National Millennium Commissions
Organizers: The White House, The United States
Thematic Working Groups 4
Theme: Cultural Conservation in East Asia
Organizers: the World Bank
Thematic Working Group 5
Theme: Culture, Costs and Preservation
Organizers: World Monuments Fund
Thematic Working Group 6
Theme: Valuing Heritage Beyond Economics
Organizers: ICCROM
Thematic Working Group 7
Theme: Museums: conservation and management of cultural heritage
Organizers: CIVITA-research center
Thematic Working Group 8
Theme: Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development, a New Partnership
Organizers: Council of Europe
Thematic Working Group 9
Theme: Culture and Private Sector Support
Organizers: Association for Business partnership of the Arts
Thematic Working Group 10
Theme: Sustainable Development in Communication and Education: Pilot Projects and Case
Studies
Organizers: Scuola Normale di Pisa, European Commission, ICR (Italian National Council for
Conservation), Soprintendenza of Pompei
Thematic Working Group 11
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Theme: Financing Sustainable Sites Management
Organizers: The World Bank
Thematic Working Group 12
Theme: Mapping and Mobilizing Cultural Resources in Cities and Regions
Organizers: INTERARTS Observatory, UNESCO
Thematic Working Group 13
Theme: Guidelines for the Conservation of Architectural Heritage: Financial Aspects
Organizers: ICOMOS
Thematic Working Group 14
Theme: Supporting Cultural Enterprises as a Focus of Local Development
Organizers: Ford Foundation
Thematic Working Group 15
Theme: The Economics of Archives in Development
Organizers: World Bank
Thematic Working Group 16
Theme: Cultural Tourism and Development
Organizers: Touring Club
Thematic Working Group 17
Theme: Italian Bilateral Cooperation
Organizer: Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Direction for the International Cooperation
Session VII: A Vision for the Future
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THURSDAY MORNING, October 7
Session VIII: Strategies to Support Culture in Sustainable Development
This key session is meant to provide strategic guidance and outline practical actions.
Some of the envisaged outcomes may include:
Announcements of programs by international institutions
Guidelines on new financial mechanisms: trust funds, voluntary contributions etc.
Announcements of agreements among new partners
Announcements of new initiatives and brokerage sessions
Mobilization around common objectives
Participants:
Session IX: Creating Capacity for Cultures in Sustainable Development
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, October 7
3:30 p.m.
Press Conference
3:45 p.m.
Informal Networking Session for all Thematic Working Groups
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The Conference
on
The Financing, Resources and the Economics
of
Culture in Sustainable Development
"Culture Counts"
Convened by the World Bank and the Government of Italy,
In cooperation with UNESCO
Florence, Italy
October 4-7, 1999 (7/28/99)
RATIONALE
1. The World Bank, the Government of Italy, in cooperation with UNESCO are
convening a conference to address the importance of financing, resources, and the
economics of culture in sustainable development, in Florence, Italy, October 4-6,
1999. The conference provides an important opportunity to advance the international
agenda on culture and sustainable development, and it responds to the World Bank's
Comprehensive Development Framework.
2. The urgent need for financing and resources mobilization is a key message in the
report of the World Commission on Culture and Development, Our Creative
Diversity. UNESCO's Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for
Development (Stockholm, March-April 1998), called on governments to "make more
human and financial resources available for cultural development."
3. The September 1998 World Bank conference, Culture in Sustainable Development:
Investing in Cultural and Natural Endowments, held in Washington, D.C., co-
sponsored by UNESCO, was to assert the Bank's recognition of the tangible and
intangible value of culture in sustainable development. Many public and private
cultural institutions took part in this conference, and welcomed the Bank's new
emphasis on culture.
4. Since then, and in the context of the Comprehensive Development Framework, the
World Bank is undertaking a series of initiatives to advance financing for preserving
and enhancing cultural assets within client countries, as components of, or as stand-
alone development projects. The objective of the Bank's efforts is to provide new
opportunities for poor communities to grow out of poverty, to encourage local level
development, to conserve and generate revenues from existing physical assets, to
strengthen social capital, to expand the opportunities for education, and to provide
and/or improve attention to the cultural aspects of infrastructure.
5. "It is important that development proceed in ways that allow human groups to live
together better, without losing their identity and sense of community, and without
6. betraying their heritage". In this context the Bank is strengthening its partnerships
with UNESCO and with the many institutions engaged in sustainable development
addressing the cultural aspects of development. The Bank seeks the fullest inclusion
of expertise, the civil society, academia, and the private sector. These expanding
partnerships create new synergies. They add value to the efforts of UNESCO and the
World Bank, as well as to the work of governments and other institutions. Such
partnerships can illustrate the importance of culture in sustainable development, as
both constitutive of development and as an instrument of development.
7. There are many issues associated with the financing of culture and the role of culture
in financing development. For example, to what extent can economic, not just
financial, returns be determined and calculated? How can co-financing partnership
agreements with other institutions be most effective? What can be replicated in
achieving self-sustaining cultural development? What types of international loans are
available to the emerging private sector of the cultural industries in developing
countries?. What are the methodologies available that can be used to assess the
technical and economic terms of cultural projects presented by private borrowers in
this field? What incentives and regulatory structures is the most effective and
appropriate for national governments to support culture in a developmental
framework? Are the innovations employed by some organizations and or countries to
raise funds for culture able to be replicated in client countries? What are the best
approaches to providing financial support to protect the integrity of cultural diversity?
What cultural values and practices are most closely linked to sustainable
development?
7. Too often development initiatives, in actions to improve services and facilities, have
not addressed the significant roles that cultural identity and assets play in social
cohesion, economic development, employment, and education. There are instances of
tangible cultural assets being assessed as impediments to development. Such
misperceptions illustrate the challenges needing attention in Florence. There is a
critical need to focus attention on the requirements for adequate resources within
international, national and local institutions for analysis and assessments that can relate
culture and sustainable development.
8. Attention to existing legal frameworks, or the need to develop appropriate
frameworks, is essential to culture and development approaches and project design.
Processes must exist that result in an examination of the values and rules in place, and
include a review of those existing international, regional, national and/or local
communities provisions related to culture.
9. Current frameworks for international cooperation on cultural matters involve both the
national legislation of a lending country, as well as elements of the 1972 UNESCO
The report of the World Commission. Our Creative Diversity.
www.unesco.org/culture-and-development/ocd/ocd.html
convention, which calls for advancing assistance to developing countries. It is
important that financial institutions review such provisions in the development of their
portfolios.
10.An issue of primary concern is the need for training at all levels in the skills of cultural
assets management and to provide for this education. There are critical needs at all
levels in a variety of roles that require leadership, that allow informed interventions,
and that result in managing public and private assets such as museums, cultural sites,
and archives, so that they can be sustained. Job creation especially for those who live
in poverty often surround sites under threat. How can responding to these sites engage
the issues of poverty and translate to financing education and training for the poor with
work resulting in the several related sectors? What new opportunities for cooperation
among leaders in education and culture are possible in training that result in people
competently trained to assist in the prevention of damage, economic evaluation,
monitoring, and maintenance.
11. Appropriate land use planning is an important tool applicable for enhancing cultural
sites, including the planning and implementation of new infrastructures and buildings,
and with regard to both built and archaeological sites, as well as in the identity of
community.
12. Financial institutions have many methodological guidelines for use in projects on
cultural heritage and landscapes, particularly in conservation. From the 1931 Athens
Charters to the 1964 Venice Charter, common principles are now accepted worldwide.
These are resources to improve the quality of projects and Florence can lead to
processes that reconcile cultural, economic and legal requirements.
OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES
13. The Florence Conference is to provide opportunities and platforms for an examination
of the important aspects of financing culture, the built, social, and natural patrimony.
Thematic Working Groups, each organized and sponsored by many other partners, as
well as the Bank, UNESCO, will consider a variety of issues, approaches, and
possible funding strategies that can lead to mobilizing resources
14 Because culture embraces areas as diverse as cultural heritage, publishing, audiovisual
industries, handicrafts and design, oral traditions, multicultural relations, social
cohesion, etc. the feasibility of creating special approaches for funding and financing
can be informed by some of the vehicles devised by other institutions, and that many
reflect some experience for environmental preservation and management. Of great
importance is the potential that certain areas offer for using a mix of lending products,
grants, and/or resources provided by bilateral donors through partnership agreements
with other institutions, and private sector experiences.
15 The Florence Conference will provide forums in which developing countries, the
Bank, UNESCO, other international organizations and institutions, the private sector,
and other partners can consider a) policies with respect to culture, b) possible
funding approaches and vehicles, and c) the future potentials of existing partnerships.
16 Participants are invited to address how the financing of their endeavors in the cultural
realm might be widened and deepened, based on their field experiences in
preservation; the enhancement of cultural heritage; the promotion of traditional and
contemporary arts; overall cultural policy formulation, as well as sector development
policies imbedded in other the financing of other sectors.
17 Client countries are invited to prepare analyses of their cultural policies, and to
present the challenges, and potentials, in supporting cultural patrimony and cultural
industries. This information can more fully clarify the needs for national and
international expertise and financing.
18 Program content is to include information on the strategy and funding mechanisms of
other organizations, including national governments and inter-governmental
organizations such as the Council of Europe, ICCROM, the Inter-American
Development Bank, the private sector, the philanthropic efforts of corporations,
foundations and NGOs that do not rely on public funding.
19. The Conference should lead to:
A) A series of proposals that could contribute to future collaborative actions on
culture and development among international organizations, including
UNESCO, the World Bank, the private sector, and governments.
B) Providing a forum for governments and/or other partners, including
representatives from the private sector and foundations, to consider new
initiatives for dedicating funds to cultural initiatives
C) Mobilizing initiatives to develop analyses and methodologies that underpin
future considerations by governments, and key international and regional
financial institutions related to the financing of culture in development.
.D) Considering contributions to special accounts that enable international
institutions and governments to strengthen their expertise in culture, expand
the pipeline of projects, and contribute to newly defined policies and
institutional capacity building.
E.) The publication of conference proceedings, and other documents that can
expand the inventory of case work on best practice. This includes expert
papers, and fact-sheets prepared by the convening organizations and
contributions from other cosponsors and organizations.
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October 7, 1999
Thank you very much, and I am delighted to be here at this very important conference. I would like to
begin by thanking my good friend Jim Wolfensohn and the directorate of the World Bank for inviting
me to be a part of this conference. I also want to applaud the Bank's commitment to culture and the way
in which the Bank has included culture among the core areas to be addressed in the Comprehensive
Development Framework.
Let me also thank Director-General Gianfranco Facco Bonetti and the government of Italy for hosting us
here in Florence, a city that is truly a cultural capital of the world and one that draws millions and
millions of visitors because of the treasures that are so well displayed here. I also thank the government
of Italy and the government of the City of Florence for supporting this conference.
I know you have already had three productive days talking about the importance of culture in sustainable
development. You have been discussing ways in which financing and resources can be made more
available for culture. There are many important points in this discussion that bear attention and that I
hope will serve as the basis for further conversations among cultural ministers and representative, but
also joining with economic and finance ministers and social ministers as well. I further hope that the
conference creates the kind of public and private dialogue that is important for the furtherance of the
appreciation of culture in the lives of individuals and societies around the globe.
I would not take your time in repeating the issues that you have already discussed and about which you
have so much expertise. But I would like to speak to you as someone who has been privileged to travel
widely, to see some of the world's most priceless cultural treasures and traditions, and to listen to the
challenges and hopes of families - and especially to hear the voices of women and children - who are
struggling to build better lives for themselves. I would like to add just a few modest strategies and
suggestions for supporting cultural development to ones you have already discussed.
Over the past seven years, I have represented the United States on nearly every continent but for
Antarctica, and I have met hundreds - indeed thousands - of men, women and children who have talked
to me and shown me with pride their homes, their crafts, their treasures, their museums, their
institutions, and the fabric that makes up their lives. Like many of you, I have seen some of those
treasures that are known throughout the world. I have walked along the reflecting pool of the Taj Mahal.
I have seen with my own eyes the Door of No Return on Goree Island in Senegal. In both those places
one could not help but be provoked to think: in the first, about the enduring love that was shining in
those shimmering waters, and in the other, the doorway that led so many of my fellow countrymen on
their horrifying journey to slavery. Each of those instances was a provocative moment, and there have
been many others, whether it is sitting in one of the great cathedrals of Europe and watching the sun
stream through the stained glass or standing in awe before one of the artistic treasures in this city.
It is at those moments that I believe many of us are overcome by the richness, the diversity, and the
legacy of the human experience. Each of these monuments has sprung from the mind and muscle of our
forebears. And each has the power to take us back to civilizations in the recent or distant past. As we
look at places that are so well known to us, we also have to see those smaller, quieter places where
culture is living today. From the Great Wall of China to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, you can see how
culture is being lived out on a day-to-day, minute-by minute basis. But you could also see how young
people look so similar today, dressed very much the same in brand-name t-shirts, eating the same
brand-name hamburgers, finding their dialogue and their imaginations fired by the same kinds of TV and
movie characters, evidence of the globalization of popular culture in our time.
When I think then, of globalized popular culture juxtaposed against some of the world's most unique
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cultural treasures, I am particularly reminded of the urgency that we must give to preserve and nurture
culture in sustainable development in what often appears to be a throw-away world.
Globalization in itself is neither good nor bad. Technological progress, the Internet, faxes, satellites, jet
travel have indeed brought our world closer together. And more than at any other time in human history,
the world has the knowledge, the skills, and the wealth to empower people - especially those living in
the developing world - with the choices and opportunities to live healthier and more fulfilling lives.
But we have also seen first-hand how globalization and development can threaten cherished traditions
and cultures, how globalization can create consumers, but not citizens. We know from the newspaper
headlines stories of in-laws burning brides because their dowries failed to yield color TV sets, or of poor
people in every region of the world spending hard-earned money on products they think represent
modern culture.
President Havel of the Czech Republic has spoken and written at length about globalization and the
homogenization of our desires and tastes. He argues that now, though, there is already is a rebellion
against globalization. He sees, as I see, the desires of so many to assert their identity against mass
culture fueled by globalization. In his words, "Many of the great problems we face today have their
origin in the fact of this global civilization, which is no more than a thin veneer over the sum of human
awareness." Beneath that thin veneer, people are striving for identity and feeling a great need to set
themselves apart from one another. Cultures and peoples who feel they have been marginalized by
globalization are demanding to be heard, and some are even taking drastic steps to be so heard. We have
seen some of the worst evidence of this in wars and ethnic cleansing, in the threats and terrorism of
religious fundamentalists.
That is why in this era of globalization this conference is so timely, because it is essential that we respect
the diversity of cultures and that we give all people the opportunities to preserve and practice their
traditions. And that is why whenever we consider strategies for economic and social development
around the world, we must not forget the importance of culture.
Now, I would imagine that there are many in the countries from where all of you came, and others who
are observing this conference, who might wonder why so many people committed to tackling the "hard"
issue of alleviating poverty - people committed to bringing education and health care and water
purification and sanitation and transportation and commments can attract tourism and
the revitalization of traditional crafts can attract business and investment. It counts for social
development, because we have learned over and over again that we cannot improve the quality of life
without improving the soul of life. And culture is the soul of life. It is what gives us roots, gives our
lives meaning, it is what binds us to each other.
The American writer William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It is no even past." Not only
the blood, but the experiences and hopes of our ancestors course through our veins. And only through
their languages and legends, through their sill-existing monuments and still-living traditions, can we
understand who we are, where we came from, and what we want to be.
Just think of what happened in the ten years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, as people have discovered
their long-suppressed culture and felt compelled to express it in many diverse ways. Just a few days ago
in Warsaw, I visited the Lauder School, where scores of children were studying Hebrew and Jewish
traditions in a place where it was thought that would never occur again.
Four years ago, in Mongolia, I met children who in the days of Communism had never been permitted to
read about their great ancestor, Ghengis Khan, or to find materials for school in their native language. In
those two places, very far from one another, Warsaw and Ulan Bator, I saw children - children
expressing themselves and looking for ways to connect their present with their past. As I listened to the
children sing a traditional song in Warsaw, I thought how extraordinary it was that they would now be
able to worship and speak their own language, to honor the ways of the ways if their ancestors without
fear. When I returned from Mongolia after hearing the stories of the young Mongolian children who
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could not even imagine their past because there was no written material or other text to provide that
guidance to them, I worked with their government to procure Mongolian-language textbooks so that
those children, too, would have the right to express and understand their culture and history.
Throughout our century, we have seen the waste and tragedy that can occur when we take a culturally
illiterate approach to development. How many health clinics that have been funded by the World Bank
or UNESCO or UNICEF or governments have failed because they could no serve the communities that
desperately needed them because aid workers failed to respect local mores and customs? How many tons
of farm machinery have been left rusting in the fields because donors never asked the farmers whether
they wanted the equipment in the first place? How many roads to nowhere sit abandoned in the
countryside because local residents had not been consulted on the placement of such roads?
For the sake of progress we have uprooted tens of thousands from ancestral villages and transferred them
into high-rise apartments that offered modern amenities but attracted crime and alienated residents. For
the sake of progress we have knocked down historic buildings and replaced them with parking lots. For
the sake of progress we have built roads through the countryside and destroyed centuries-old, time-tested
methods or irrigation.
That is why we must bring a new cultural literacy and cultural respect to all of development strategies -
from health care to education to safe shelter to sanitation and clean water to transportation and
agriculture. Cultural respect and preservation must become indelibly linked to progress and
development. The World Bank - and so many of you who represent foundations and governments -
have helped lead the way, both by making sure that development projects reflect the lives and traditions
of the people they serve, and by investing in culture for its own sake.
Let me mention one particular strategy that I have seen first-hand in the last year. Last spring, in Cairo, I
visited a medieval neighborhood that was coming back to life because of efforts to restore a
twelfth-century mosque and other historic buildings. The corrosive effects of time, pollution, and rising
groundwater had begun to destroy the structures. And like so many other urban centers struggling with
rapid population growth, living and health conditions had deteriorated. The renovations were, however,
spurring the increased development of other buildings and attracting more tourists and business back to
the community. The work that was done there was both culturally literate and sensitive, and I was
pleased that the U.S. government, through USAID, was supporting this and similar efforts in Morocco
and India and China.
For the first time in the history of humankind, more people are living in cities than in countrysides. And
as urban populations continue to grow, projects to restore and re-purpose historic structures and to
upgrade sanitation and infrastructure can be essential to ensuring the continuity and strength of
communities. Through such projects an entire neighborhood can be mobilized and empowered to
rehabilitate historic traditions and at the same time to solve problems such as those caused by rising
groundwater. Traditional craftsmen can find new employment and businesses can prosper from
well-managed tourism.
In addition to all the recommendations you have made for "Creating Capacities for Sustainable
Development," let me add just two more:
First I believe it is important to support more museums and cultural institutions in the developing world,
places where cultures are most threatened by globalization. I often think of a struggling museum I
visited in Africa. There was only one air-conditioned room in this beautiful old building that had been
turned into the national museum. And in that one air-conditioned room, in a closet full of cardboard
boxes, were kept some of the most precious artifacts of our human history. The museum guide took out
the boxes one by one and opened them, and inside, wrapped in thin cotton, were human skulls more than
a million years old. I think of those skulls - some of the most priceless artifacts of humanity - stored in
those flimsy boxes, and wonder how many more irreplaceable objects are at risk of disintegration and
destruction. We must do more to help these nations and their governments restore their treasures, store
them safely, and display them appropriately. The answer is not to remove them from their countries of
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origin, but to keep them close to the people, where they belong, by offering appropriate aid.
That is why I was very excited to hear about an innovative idea called the "Culture Bank." With the help
of Peace Corps volunteers and a few international NGOs, the people of a village in Northern Mali have
found an ingenious way to keep their local treasures in the community and to promote business
development at the same time. They have started a "Culture Bank" that offers small loans to people who
agree to lend an object of historic value to the community museum as collateral. That way, families who
need money for seeds for harvest or another goat to milk or whatever other business venture they are
engaged in for their daily income are not tempted to sell their treasures to tourists who will take them out
of the villages. So far, the bank has had a 100 percent repayment rate, and a new respect for cultural
traditions has taken root in the community. We must find more innovative ways like these to link
cultural development to economic development.
My second proposal is also very simple. I believe we should call on our children's potential to serve as
leaders in cultural preservation. I would urge that we support more efforts such as the
Adopt-a-Monument program that I have seen both here in Italy - in Napes and in Palermo. As many of
you may know, it is a program that encourages schoolchildren to choose a historic monument and take
responsibility for its care. In both Palermo and Naples, I saw how children had worked hard to revive
centuries-old churches in their communities that had been left to deteriorate. They studied history, they
developed guided tours, they picked up garbage, and they raised funds for renovation. At each site, I was
surrounded by children eager to tell me the story of their church. I could hear the pride in their voices as
they recounted the historic events that had take place within those walls.
I have heard and witnessed similar delight in the voices and eyes of children in my own country. Two
years ago, the President and I created a White House Millennium Council to lead us in a celebration of
the coming millennium by helping all of our citizens to "honor the past and imagine the future." I have
traveled around my country bringing attention to historic sites, encouraging local communities to come
together to Save America's Treasures. That includes not only great works of art and historic building
and natural landscapes, but what may be found in every community or even in the attics of many homes
in my country. I remember visiting Hispanic children in New Mexico who had banded together to study
the history of a local statue called the Southwest Pieta. The performed a play in both English and
Spanish to explain the legend of this statue.
The enthusiasm that children can show for cultural preservation is also evident in a new effort in the
United States called Pennies-for-Preservation. School children are raising, literally pennies to save
historic places such as the home of Harriet Tubman, the famous ex-slave who in the nineteenth century
became a leading abolitionist who led other slaves to safety and freedom. Though their contributions
were modest, their interest in the fate of this historic place was priceless.
Each of the children I met from Adopt-a-monument or Southwest Pieta or Pennies-for-Preservation also
have gained a new appreciation for the rich cultural legacy of their ancestors and therefore are likely to
show more respect for the culture in which they live.
There is no reason why these efforts cannot be transplanted, especially to children living in countries
struggling to preserve their cultural treasures. Anyone who has ever seen the concentration a child can
bring to a hobby or a sports event or to a story that is being told knows that children have a tremendous
capacity for soaking up knowledge and history. They are innate curators and preservationists.
So why not, in this age of globalization, remind them early of their unique and diverse heritages and help
them learn to take responsibility for preservation? Teach them to respect culture and recognize the stake
they have in its preservation and maintenance for future generations. If we do work with such children
we may also see other results flowing from these efforts.
I have met so-called "at risk" children - those at risk of dropping out of school or becoming violent or
criminals. And with those young children we have seen time and time again that if given the opportunity
to participate in the arts and culture, they often bloom. Studies have shown that arts programs, more than
any other, are most effective in bringing out the intellectual and creative potentials of at-risk children
and keeping them out of trouble. Each year at the White House, we give out the "Coming Up Taller
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Awards" to recognize model programs, and I've been told countless times by young men and women
that if it had not been for their writing or arts or performance or dance classes, they would be on the
streets or in jail. These children know what you know: Culture counts.
In a mere 85 days, we will be celebrating the dawn of a new millennium. As we look back at these past
1,000 years, we can see that as a people we have made much progress. We have cured disease though
incurable and managed to lengthen and improve the quality of life. We have circled the earth in every
imaginable way - boats and planes and even balloons. We have seen the effects of space shuttles and
fiber-optic cables as they have stretched our imagination and brought us closer together.
But nothing has changed what we might very well call the values that define us most, values that exist
between the economy and the government, values that really lie in the middle between our economic and
our governmental activity and that make our life worth living - our family and our faiths, our work and
freedom, our creative expression and knowledge, our associations. In other words, our culture. So if we
want to see the 21st Century be as rich as it can be, and if we hope that our children will respect their
own cultures and the cultures of others, then we have to make culture count. And we have to link culture
to economic and social development. And by doing so, we will make a statement that is a statement of
values about who we are as a people and what kind of future we think we can make together.
Thank you for thinking through these issues and for ensuring that culture counts in the future.
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MEMORANDUM FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
FROM:
MaryEllen McGuire
SUBJECT: Briefing Materials for the White House Conference on Philanthropy:
Gifts to the Future
I.
Briefing Memo
II.
Déliverables
-Administration Commitments
-Corporate Commitments
-AOL Website Press Release
-Gates Foundation Background
-Girl Scouts Patch Background
III. Script
-Script
-Open Forum: Potential Audience Members to Call On
IV.
Bios
-Speaker Bios
-Hero Bios
V.
Treasury/CEA Supplementals
-Treasury Memoranda on Tax Policy Issues
-Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) Philanthropy Fact Sheet
-CEA Philanthropy Q & A
-CEA Philanthropy Q & A- More Details
VI.
Guest List
VII.
Articles on the Conference
-"Philanthropy Takes the Bully Pulpit," The Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 21, 1999
-"Moving Giving off the Dime," The Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 21, 1999
VIII. General Articles on Philanthropy
-"Venture Capitalists Alter Face of Charity," Chicago Tribune, August 22, 1999
-"Cyber Rich Folks Being Taught the Basics of Philanthropy," San Francisco Chronicle,
October 13, 1999
-"Charity Begins Online," The Washington Post, October 20, 1999
-"Ranks of Volunteers Swell to a Record but Donations Dip, Survey Finds," The
Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 21, 1999
-"Future Grantmakers of America," Foundation News and Commentary,
September/October 1998
-"A Rainbow of Community Funds," Responsive Philanthropy Special Report, Spring
1999
-"Passing of the Plate and Feeding the Spirit," Responsive Philanthropy Special Report,
Spring 1999
-"Payback Time for Women's Groups?," Responsive Philanthropy Special Report,
Spring 1999
IX. Remarks
-To be forwarded
THE WHITE HOUSE
October 21, 1999
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
ON PHILANTHROPY: GIFTS TO THE FUTURE
DATE:
October 22, 1999
LOCATION: State Floor
TIME:
12:30pm
FROM:
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell
Shirley Sagawa
I.
PURPOSE
You and the President will participate in the first White House Conference on
Philanthropy. You will make welcoming remarks and provide the context for the
day's discussions, which you will moderate. In addition to providing recognition
to America's philanthropic and nonprofit leaders, this conference will encourage
all Americans to think of themselves as philanthropists, increase their giving and
leave a legacy to future generations of volunteering and giving. Prior to the event
you will meet with the panelists, conference supporters, and the outstanding
individual philanthropists - - the "heroes of philanthropy" - who are profiled in the
introductory video to be shown to East Room and satellite audiences.
II.
BACKGROUND
The White House Conference on Philanthropy is a three hour discussion with
twenty discussants and a live audience of approximately 200 that will be
broadcast from the East Room of the White House to downlink sites across the
country. The first session will cover the ways we can teach or transmit the
philanthropic tradition to future generations, and the second session will explore
how changing demographics, the transfer of wealth and new technologies will
transform American philanthropy in the years ahead. These panels will be
followed by an open discussion with some pre-determined participants in the
audience. This conference was conceived by the Office of the First Lady and the
White House Millennium Council in consultation with experts from foundations,
leading nonprofits, and researchers.
The conference will begin with a four minute introductory video shown to the
East Room and the satellite audiences. This video will profile eleven "heroes" of
American philanthropy from a wide range of backgrounds. The video makes the
point that all Americans can be philanthropists and that American philanthropy
will reflect the demographic changes transforming America in the 21st century.
The first panel, "Expanding the American Tradition of Giving," features four
panelists who represent new research, community foundations, youthful donors,
and experts who are working with youth. The purpose of this session is to
explore how the ethic of giving can best be taught and to highlight some
imaginative current efforts to involve youth.
The second panel, "New Philanthropy in the New Millennium," features three
outstanding new donors and philanthropists who are actively promoting more
giving by entrepreneurs, the newly wealthy, and ordinary Americans. The third
segment of the program will feature an open discussion which you will moderate.
Observing and participating in the discussion will be an audience of some 200
leaders from philanthropic institutions, nonprofit organizations, youth groups, and
researchers, educators and innovative new donors.
The first two hours of the conference will be broadcast by satellite by South
Carolina Educational Television. Over 3,443 sites will receive the signal, and
several public broadcasting networks will transmit it as well. Public access and
cable channels will reach a potential audience of 10.5 million cable viewers, and
South Carolina ETV's own network will reach 1,200 schools and other sites. 153
sites, in 42 states, have registered at our online website. Many of these local sites
will sponsor their own conferences or forums in conjunction with our event. The
American Red Cross and United Way cooperated to organize a number of these
local conferences, but other groups - the Forum of Regional Association of
Grantmakers, the National Committee on Planned Giving, and the National
Association of Fund-Raising Executives also are planning special events around
the broadcast. The American Red Cross will host one large forum at its national
headquarters on 17th Street.
The conference provides a forum for announcing a series of action steps from both
the government and our private sector partners.
Government:
The President will announce the creation of a new Interagency Task Force on
Nonprofits and Government. This Task Force will be charged with studying
ways to improve collaboration between the nonprofit sector and federal
agencies. The Interagency Task Force will be co-chaired by the National
Economic Council, the Domestic Policy Council, and your Chief of Staff.
The Department of Treasury will sponsor a follow-up forum with
representatives of the nonprofit sector to discuss issues affecting the charitable
sector.
The Council of Economic Advisers will be charged with preparing an analysis
of research on the economic impact of the nonprofit sector and new studies of
possible governmental measures that could increase private giving.
The Corporation for National Service is sponsoring a youth roundtable this
morning to discuss ways that young people can be encouraged to become
more active donors and volunteers.
Private Sector:
The National Charities Information Bureau, in cooperation with AOL,
charitableway.com and Greatergood.com, and with participation by officials
from the Office of the Vice President, the Department of Commerce, and the
White House Millennium Council, is sponsoring a second roundtable on e-
philanthropy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The President of NCIB will
announce a commitment to hold follow-up forums and that the participating
corporations have agreed to four principles that should guide online
philanthropy.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will announce that it will support the
costs of a follow-up meeting with youth organizations to discuss how they can
work together to promote youth philanthropy.
The Girl Scouts of America has announced the creation of a new patch
program, the Strength and Sharing Girl Scouts Philanthropy Patch program.
The AOL Foundation just launched its online philanthropy portal,
www.helping.org which provides potential donors information about
hundreds of thousands of nonprofit organizations. Steve Case, CEO of AOL,
is on the second panel of the conference.
The White House Conference on Philanthropy is sponsored by the White House
Millennium Council in partnership with the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Major support comes from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
which is providing funds to South Carolina Educational TV for the cybercast and
satellite broadcast. Additional support comes from Jill Iscol and the Iscol Family
Foundation, the Marcie Polier Family Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the
Community Foundation-Silicon Valley. The American Red Cross and United
Way of America have provided significant in-kind support by organizing a
nationwide network of downlink sites to receive the satellite signal.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Briefing Participants:
The President
The First Lady
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell
Shirley Sagawa
Meet and Greet:
The President
The First Lady
Speakers:
Emmett D. Carson, President and CEO, The Minneapolis Foundation
Justin Randall Timberlake, N'SYNC
Peter D. Hart, Founder, Peter D. Hart Research Associates
Dorothy A. Johnson, President, Council of Michigan Foundations
Steve Case, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, America Online, Inc.
Catherine (Cate) Muther, Founder, Three Guineas Fund
Kevin A. Fong, General Partner, Mayfield Fund
Paul Amos, President and CEO, South Carolina Educational TV
Heroes:
Myrian Bodner
Gil Castellanos
Laura Castellanos, Mother
Matel Dawson
Mary Grayson
Regina Jennings
Dr. Rolland Lowe
Matthew Nonnemacher
John Nonnemacher, Father
Rev. Ann Pearson
Esperanza Rich
William Shelton III
Harrison Steans
Funders:
William S. White, President and CEO, The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Ann Young Orr, Chief of Staff, National Endowment for the Humanities
Jill Iscol, Iscol Family Foundation
Marcie Polier, CEO, Entdata.com
Beety Beene, President & CEO, United Way of America
Bernardine Healy, President, American Red Cross
Others:
Secretary Shalala
Paul Newman
Event Participants:
The President
The First Lady
Panel 1:
Emmett D. Carson, President and CEO, The Minneapolis Foundation
Justin Randall Timberlake, N'SYNC
Peter D. Hart, Founder, Peter D. Hart Research Associates
Dorothy A. Johnson, President, Council of Michigan Foundations
Panel 2:
Steve Case, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, America Online, Inc.
Catherine (Cate) Muther, Founder, Three Guineas Fund
Kevin A. Fong, General Partner, Mayfield Fund
Open discussion:
Rebecca L. Adamson, Founder and President, First Nations Development Institute
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez, President, Hispanic Federation
Malik Evans, Sophomore, University of Rochester
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration
Rosario "Chayo" Long-Mendez
William P. Massey, President, National Charities Information Bureau
Margaret (Peg) Talburtt, President, Michiigan Women's Foundation
William S. White, President, The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
IV.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
12:35pm
YOU and the President receive briefing in Map Room.
12:50pm
YOU and the President proceed to the Blue Room for meet and
greet.
12:59pm
Ellen Lovell begins program and introduces video.
Video is shown to live and broadcast audience.
1:00pm
YOU and the President are announced into the East Room and
proceed to the stage.
See script attached for final program.
V.
PRESS PLAN
Open Press
VI.
REMARKS
Provided by Speechwriters
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
REMARKS FOR WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON
PHILANTHROPY
THE WHITE HOUSE
OCTOBER 22, 1999
Good Afternoon. Welcome to the White House.
Acknowledgments: I think it appropriate that we begin this
Conference on Philanthropy by thanking our donors and supporters. I
want to thank the National Endowment for the Humanities, the federal
agency that keeps America learning about our people and our past - and
is co-hosting today's conference. Let me acknowledge the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation for working with South Carolina Educational
Television to bring this Conference to audiences across America via
satellite and the Internet. William S. White, the President and CEO of
the Mott Foundation, is here with us today, as is Paul Amos, the
President and CEO of South Carolina Educational TV.
While we are thanking those who have helped extend our reach
beyond the walls of the White House, I should also mention at least a
few of the many organizations that have done yeoman work not only to
make this broadcast available but also to host local forums and viewings.
I particularly want to recognize Dr. Bernardine Healy, the President of
the American Red Cross, and Betty Beene, the President of United Way
of America, who are here with us today and who have partnered to
sponsor local events in many American cities.
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We know there are many other groups across the United States -
the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, the National
Committee on Planned Giving, and the National Association of Fund-
Raising Executives, just to name a few - who have also worked hard to
build a national audience for today's discussion, and we want to thank
you all.
I also want to thank the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Community
Foundation-Silicon Valley, (whose President, Peter Hero will be joining
us later this afternoon); Jill Iscol and the Iscol Family Foundation, and
Marcie Polier and the Marcie Polier Family Foundation for their help.
Finally, I want to recognize Secretary Donna Shalala, who is head
of our Combined Federal Campaign this year, Janet LaChance, head of
the Office Personnel Management; and my friend Paul Newman, famous
for many things -- including his generosity.
The heroes we have just seen - and admired - on the screen are
here with us in the East Room today. I'd like to ask all of them to
stand.
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These are the heroes of philanthropy in America. And they can be
found in every single community in our nation, wherever an American
sees a need - and moves to fill it. Whenever a child sees another
without books or food at school, and offers to share her own.
Wherever a businessperson takes stock of all the blessings in his life -
and bequeaths them to those with none.
Often, the simplest acts of generosity are the most heroic. I think
of the inspiring story of Oseola McCarty, who spent a lifetime washing,
starching, ironing other people's clothes, living simply and frugally in
Mississippi. Four years ago, she decided to use her life savings of
$150,000 to endow a scholarship fund at a nearby university. "I'm
giving it away so that the children won't have to work so hard, like I
did," she said. Last month, at the age of 91, Oseola McCarty passed
away - but her gift lives on - in the scores of students who will go to
college because of her generosity.
They probably weren't even thinking about it when they made
their contributions, but Esperanza Rich, Matel Dawson, Rolland Lowe -
all the American heroes we celebrate today -- have also made
invaluable contributions to the strength of our democracy.
3
I have been privileged to represent America in so many of the
world's newest democracies - places where people are just beginning to
understand the responsibilities and benefits of freedom. And
everywhere I go, they ask me, how has the United States been able to
make our democracy work for so many years.
So I tell them about our tradition of citizen service and
philanthropy. I tell them about how our democracy thrives not just
because of our free elections and free markets. It thrives because in that
space between government and the economy, our citizens come together
to help each other - to lend a hand in times of trouble, to support non-
profit organizations that help us look beyond what is, to what can be.
Our democracy thrives because of Myrian Bodner, a Kentucky
homemaker who raised a quarter million dollars in relief supplies to help
her native Nicaragua recover from Hurricane Mitch
because of the
Rev. Ann Pearson, who gave each of her parishioners ten dollars out of a
small inheritance to donate to a worthy cause - so that they could
recognize all the creative ways they could help others
and the
millions of individual citizens who account for the 85 percent of all
funds given to charity in America. It thrives because of our
philanthropic spirit.
4
The President and I have invited you here today to find out how we
can magnify and spur the philanthropic spirit of all our citizens in the
new millennium. And though philanthropy comes in many forms, we'd
like to focus today's discussions on individual giving. Many of you
know that we have created a Millennium Council here at the White
House to celebrate this moment in time and to lead a national effort to
honor the past and imagine the future. One important part of the
Council's mission is to help all Americans identify the gifts we can give
to the future. And there is no better gift our generation can give to the
future than a strengthened philanthropic tradition.
There has never been a better time for philanthropy than today.
We are living in a moment of unprecedented prosperity. The new
economy has brought new wealth to so many Americans. My
generation - the Baby Boomers - stands to inherit $12 trillion dollars in
the coming years.
Just imagine what revolutionary progress we could bring to
America, how many lives we could change, if every American family
increased their giving by just one percent of their income.
5
We could offer child care to more than six million children; deliver
250 million more meals to the homebound elderly; guarantee Head Start
to every low-income preschooler in America; provide shelter to four
million people; save all the rare books in our libraries and still have
more than enough money left over to create the equivalent of a Ford
Foundation each year.
But we cannot assume that all this will come to pass. Philanthropy
must be taught - so today, let us find innovative ways to cultivate the
innately generous spirit of our young people. New communities of
donors must be tapped - so let us find ways to embrace and encourage
philanthropists of all races, ethnicities and colors. New avenues of
giving must be opened and explored - so let us find creative ways to
mine the rich possibilities of cyberspace and the information age to
reach more and more generous Americans.
These are just some of the opportunities and the challenges before
us-challenges and opportunities I hope we can discuss this afternoon.
Thank you for joining us today. We know what the American
philanthropic tradition has yielded to our nation in the 20th Century.
Together we can see to it that it yields even more in the 21ˢᵗ.
[Introduce the President]
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 22, 1999
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON PHILANTHROPY
The East Room
1:22 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you and good afternoon. I am delighted to
welcome all of you here. I thank all those who are here from our
government, and all of you who have come from all over our country, and
all walks of life, to this very, very important meeting.
I also want to say a special word of thanks to Hillary for yet
another wonderful idea. This was a good idea, to have this conference.
(Applause.) And all of you who have helped on any of these millennium
projects, I think it's done us a lot of good to take time out and think
about the really big issues in our society, and how we want them to play
out in the years ahead. And particularly, I think this is an important
issue at an important moment.
A long time ago, Alexis de Tocqueville said that charity in America
was something more than simple compassion. It was a sign of good
citizenship. He wrote, "Americans make great and real sacrifices to the
public welfare. They hardly ever fail to lend faithful support to one
another."
Today, this is a strong tradition. And the face of this tradition
is changing. Philanthropy is, like our country, now more diverse as new
groups seize and share opportunity in the new economy. It is more
democratic, as Americans of all income levels, believe it or not, give
at roughly equal levels. It is younger, as the high-tech economy
creates a new generation of philanthropists.
I've got to take a little time out. Last night, I had dinner with
a lot of these high-tech gurus who made allowances for the fact that I
am obviously technologically challenged. (Laughter.) And we were
talking about how we were all going to relate to each other and maximize
the potential of the Information Age. And I started talking about this
conference today and said, we've got to get more people to give. I
said, I would like it if Internet usage were as dense in America as
telephone usage is, if we had 98 percent penetration, everybody had an
e-mail address. I think we could have a dramatic impact on education
and on poverty. I think we could skip a whole generation of
development. And how are we going to get this done?
So there is this guy sitting there, he's 27 years old, you know.
He says, well, you know, when I got out of college, I started this
company and three years later, I sold it for $150 million and I started
three others. And he said, what you need is founder stock. (Laughter.)
He said, we need to go all over America and gather up founder stock and
put it in a big trust to make universal the access to the Internet. He
said, because you've got all these guys like me that don't know we're
rich yet -- we're still living on $30,000 and we've got all this stock.
(Laughter.) So he said, that's what you need.
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So I've now given you my contribution to this conference, which I
learned at the foot of a 28-year-old last night. (Laughter.) So, I
mean, that's encouraging to people like me who aren't young, you know?
(Laughter.) We don't have to depend on the Rockefellers and the Mellons
and the Carnegies or even the Paul Newmans, we can go get founders
stock. (Laughter.)
I also think it's important to point out that not only the ways of
giving are changing but the people -- when I saw that film I was so
proud that there was a federal employee that had given every single
month for 25 years. Someone obviously of modest means, doubtless a lot
of other claims on her income. So I want to thank people like Mary
Grayson and others who are giving. And I think we ought to think about
new opportunities, or I think the buzz word is "portals," that are
opening in the world of on-line philanthropy and how we can make sure
that we can continue not only to increase the volume of money but to
broaden the base of giving.
We'll hear today about venture philanthropists and start-up
charities and other ways in which the entrepreneurial spirit is invading
and energizing this field.
I would like to also point out that volunteering is another
important way of giving. This week, Hillary and I celebrated the fifth
anniversary of AmeriCorps. And we've already had 150,000 young people
serve. And I'm very, very proud of that. (Applause.) I think that is
an important thing to say. In a lot of ways, the measure of our life
and our happiness is -- to paraphrase one of the many wonderful things
Martin Luther King said, can be answered by the question: what are you
doing for others?
So I'm encouraged by this conference, by the energy here. Some of
my favorite people in all our country are out here in this audience
today, people I have admired, some of you for 20 or 30 years, for all
the things that I have watched you do for others. And I thank you for
coming.
I am glad that the sheer volume of charitable giving is going off
the charts. But I think, as we've had this phenomenal increase in
wealth in our country, I would feel even better if the percentage of our
national income devoted to charitable giving had gone up just a little
bit. You heard Hillary say what we could do if we could just increase
it by 1 percent. But going from 2 to 3 percent is a huge increase.
We've been sort of stuck at 2 percent. Now, when the stock market
triples, 2 percent is a lot more than it used to be. That's not real
pocket change; it's real money.
But if you think about what we could do with just a little more, I
think it is really worth pondering. We're having the same debate in
Congress now, and I don't want to get into any kind of political dispute
about that, but just let me give you an example. I very much want the
United States to take the lead with the rest of the wealthy countries in
alleviating the debt of the poorest countries in the world. And the
Pope has asked us to do it for the millennium -- (applause.) Now, this
is a campaign with a broad base: it's being spearheaded by the Pope and
Bono, the lead singer for U2. (Laughter.) And even though I am not a
candidate for anything anymore, I can spot a big tent when I see it.
(Laughter.)
So, you know, we ought to do this. And this is just a little bit
of all the money we've got. And it's just like de Tocqueville said a
long time ago, this is not just charity; this is good citizenship. We
take this burden off these people. If they are well governed and they
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are working hard, we give them a chance to be our partners and friends
in a more equal and balanced way for the future.
So there are things for all of us to do. I would like to -- I
would hope today that I will learn something and that we will learn
something about how we can at least incrementally increase the
percentage of our income we are devoting to philanthropy. I hope we
will learn something, as I already said, about the ways we can do it.
And I hope we will learn a little bit about whether we can all give
smarter and whether we can make sure that the money we are giving is
spent in the most effective possible way.
I take it we all begin by accepting that we no longer believe that
there is a choice out there -- which was never a real choice -- between
government meeting all of our society's needs, and government walking
away from them all and letting philanthropy do it. We have to have a
better partnership, and it will work better if we do.
We need to think about, in government, whether we can do more
things to generate more constructive philanthropy. The Treasury
Department will meet with representatives of the nonprofit sector next
month to discuss this. And I, in the meanwhile, am going to establish
and inter-agency task force to strengthen our philanthropic partnership
between government, nonprofit groups, and citizens; and to ask the
Council of Economic Advisors to do me a study on the role of
philanthropy in the American economy, and how they believe I can
increase it.
By analyzing trends in charitable giving, by assessing the impact
of the baby boomers' retirement, which -- it's going to be interesting
to see whether it makes us more or less generous when we retire, this
largest of all generations of Americans. It should make us more
generous, because the kids in school are finally the first generation
bigger than the baby boomers, and they need our help.
But we need to think about that. What's our message going to be to
the baby boomers as they move toward retirement? What's our message
going to be to people thinking about the shape of our social tensions as
we double the number of people over 65 in the next 30 years? What's our
message going to be to ourselves, those of us in the baby boom
generation, about how our citizenship responsibilities should grow when
we lay down the burdens of retirement, particularly if we've been lucky
enough to have a secure way to maintain our standard of living.
This is deserving of an awful lot of thought because there is a
whole bunch of us. And on the whole, those who manage to escape a
career in politics are going to be better off than any generation in
American history. (Laughter.) So some serious thought needs to be given
to this.
Well, I've had a little fun with this today. (Laughter.) But I am
really grateful to you all for being here. This is a big deal. We all
know -- the truth is we're all fairly pleased with ourselves for being
here because you feel better about your life when you've spent a portion
of it doing something for somebody else. And you feel better about the
good fortune you have financially if you spend at least a little of it
giving something to someone else.
So what we want to do is to start the new millennium poised to do
more and to do it better. And to give more chances to more people to
participate.
Thank you all very much. (Applause.)
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PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Column on Phil.
TALKING IT OVER
BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1999, AND THEREAFTER
Last week at the White House, I met some real heroes -- people who understand
the importance of giving. After seeing news accounts of the refugee crisis in Yugoslavia,
10-year-old Gil Castellanos wanted to help, so he created "Simply from the Heart," an
effort to raise $1 from each resident of his hometown, Elmhurst, III. Matthew
Nonnemacher, of Hazelton, Penn., was also 10 when he launched a drive to collect
pennies for the poor. His total: 1.8 million, or $18,000.
At the age of 78, Matel Dawson still spends over 80 hours a week operating a
forklift at the Ford Motor Company, just as he has for 59 years. Over the last eight
years, Mat has given away $1 million, mostly helping college students complete their
education. Asked why he continues to work so hard, Mat responds, "I need the money. I
need it to give away."
The Rev. Ann Pearson inherited $1,000 from her Uncle John. Hoping to inspire
an ethic of caring in others, she decided to give each of her parishioners $10 that they,
What Ann found was that the money grew as enthusiastic donors brought new
opportunities and ideas for community service into the church and requested support for
additional giving.
Giving has always been an important tradition in this country. More than a
hundred years ago, political observer Alexis de Tocqueville said that charity in America
is more than simple compassion. It is a sign of good citizenship. He wrote, "Americans
make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare. They hardly ever fail to lend faithful
support to one another."
I have been privileged to travel to many of the world's newest democracies --
places where people are just beginning to understand both the benefits and the
responsibilities of freedom. Everywhere I go, someone asks me how the United States
has been able to make its democracy work for so many years.
Our democracy thrives, I reply, not just because we enjoy free elections and free
markets, it also thrives because our citizens are the most generous in the world, both
with their time, and with their resources. Our democracy thrives because of people like
Gil and Matthew, Matel and Ann. Our democracy thrives because of people like
Osceola McCarty. Osceola spent a lifetime washing, starching and ironing other
people's clothes. She lived simply and frugally. Four years ago, she decided to use her
life savings to endow a scholarship fund at a nearby university. "I'm giving it away so
that the children won't have to work so hard like I did," she explained. At the age of 91,
Osceola passed away, but her generous spirit lives on.
In order to honor "heroes" like these, and to highlight the American tradition of
giving, the President and I hosted the first-ever White House Conference on
Philanthropy last week. We listened as donors, young people, policy experts and
representatives of non-profits, foundations and educational programs discussed the
diverse and changing face of philanthropy, and explored how best to preserve and
expand this valuable tradition en a better time to take a look at philanthropy in this
country. We are living in a period of unprecedented prosperity, a time when the new
economy has produced new wealth and the Baby Boom generation stands poised to
inherit $12 trillion from their parents.
Although dramatic gifts from a new group of donors, many of whom have made
their fortunes in the technology boom, have drawn new attention to giving, Osceola, Gil,
Matthew, Matel and Ann prove every day that philanthropy is not just for the wealthy. As
a matter of fact, the face of giving in this country is almost as diverse as the population
itself.
Last year, donations to charitable causes reached a new high, totaling nearly
$150 billion. Individuals accounted for 85 percent of that amount, up a third since 1995.
As a percent of our gross national product, total giving exceeded 2 percent last year, the
highest level since 1971. This is all great news, but I can't help but wonder what we
could do as a nation if we increased o gine this: If we increased our giving by just 1
percent, we could offer child care to more than 6 million children, deliver 250 million
more meals to the homebound elderly, and guarantee Head Start to every low-income
preschooler in America. We could provide shelter to 4 million people, save all the rare
books in our libraries, and still have more than enough money left over to create the
equivalent of a Ford Foundation each year.
As we move toward the new century, the President and I have asked every
American to identify the gifts they can make for the future. There is no better gift our
generation can give than creating an even stronger philanthropic tradition. To find out
more about Hillary Rodham Clinton and read her past columns, visit the Creators
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Rabin Lecture
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
REMARKS AT RABIN LECTURE
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
NOVEMBER 11, 1999
I
[Acknowledgments: Mrs. Rabin, Dalia; Rabin Center; Eitan
Haber; singer]
It is a great honor to deliver a lecture in the memory of
someone who was a personal of mine. As I sat here listening to
Mrs. Rabin and Dalia, I could only imagine how proud the Prime
Minister would be of his wife and daughter, to see their incredible
courage and commitment, to hear them challenging us all to keep
singing that "Song of Peace."
[I am also delighted to be back in Israel for my [#] visit. My
first visit here was actually back in the early 80s. My husband and
I were not in public life at the time. So, this was very much a
religious and personal trip - and one in which we saw, as private
citizens, the miracle of a nation built with the blood and sweat of
its people, sustained by their hopes, and open to people from every
corner of the world. On that first trip, we went with Bill's pastor, a
loyal friend of Israel, who had been going to the Holy Land since
the 1930s. My husband has often talked about how his pastor told
him he must never let Israel down, that God would not forgive that.
Like Bill, I have always remembered those words and tried to live
up to them.]
2
Watching that video of the Prime Minister again brought
back so many emotions and memories. [ The beloved grandfather
eulogized by Noa for his soft hands and warm embrace. The
hundreds of thousands at his last rally who gave him such hope for
peace in his last moments of life. The friendship and special
moments my husband and I had the privilege to share with the
Prime Minister and Mrs. Rabin. And the words he said every time
he stood in the White House or the Congress and asked us to
summon the better angels of our nature.]
I will always remember sitting on the South Lawn of the
White House two days before Rosh Hashanah in September, 1993,
when we saw a chance for generations of war to fade into history.
Now, as many of you know, the Prime Minister only agreed to that
famous handshake on one condition - that there would be no
kissing. Behind the determined gaze of this warrior turned
peacemaker, there was always that famous half-smile of his. I
would see it when he teased me for not allowing him to smoke in
the White House. I would see it [fill in] But, I never managed to
see it on the dance floor. After that one dance with Mrs. Ford that
we just saw, no one at the White House ever convinced him to
dance again.
3
What we would we all give to see one more dance, to have
one more conversation, to hear one more speech? In this center,
which has been filled with the voices of so many great performers
over the years, we can almost hear his deep and steady voice
echoing some of his favorite sayings: "The coldest peace is better
than the warmest war." Or "A destroyed house can be rebuilt. A
burned-down tree can be replanted. But a young life cannot be
replaced."
I thought about that this morning, when I returned to Yad
Vashem. I saw the million and a half lights of the children who
can never be replaced. And, at the children's museum, I saw the
toys that young people clung to through their darkest hours. There
was a monopoly game the children had created of life in the ghetto.
Instead of Park Place and Broadway, it had [tbd]
And there was a very old stuffed bear - whose fur had
completely worn off over the years. Its owner was once a child
living through the horrors of the Concentration Camps. Its owner
is now an adult, still haunted by those days. Until he lent his worn
out companion to the museum, it accompanied him everywhere he
went.
4
He decided to do this, he told our guide, because he and the
bear were ready to tell their story. Well, that story is now told to
children who visit the museum. Often, they take their pictures
with the bear. And this Museum Director sends them to the bear's
owner to show him how children are learning about the past
through the eyes of its young victims, who played and dreamed
like they do.
Last night, I met with three young people who are able to
dream of a different future for Israel. They are part of the Peres
Center for Peace. They gave me a calendar that a diversity of
students -- Arab and Jew, Israeli and Palestinian - had worked
together to create. Each month spotlights and expresses a different
value, such as freedom, tolerance, love.
The month of March is peace. Three Israeli boys drew
pictures of children having fun, playing with a ball, hanging out by
a lake. There is a picture of a boy holding a dove in his hand. And
there is a picture of two doves holding up an Israeli flag, with the
word peace in three languages.
5
Think about these two very different images -- from the evil
of the Holocaust to the promise of Oslo - Prime Minister Rabin's
life is Israel's history.
Like Moses, he brought his people to the water, but never got
the chance to carry us across. But, he left behind a roadmap for us
to get to his Promised Land of peace and security. And the only
way to properly honor him tonight, is to finish his journey.
[Sapperstein quote - tbd - set up bible parallel?]
When I told a friend of mine that I was coming here today, he
gave me a copy of last week's Torah reading (Genesis 25), where
Yitzchak and Yishmael are finally reunited after decades of
estrangement. They come together in quiet dignity to bury their
father, Abraham, who was devoted not only to God, but to peace.
Throughout the Book of Genesis we see these kinds of
divisions overcome with the power of God's true intentions for the
inhabitants of the Holy Land. We see Jacob fearing that his brother
Esau is coming to murder him, but after years of alienation they
embrace. We see Joseph's brothers, who fear retribution, but
instead receive forgiveness. [Ref. To song, "Genesis," if sung]
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So, too do we see that chance for reconciliation today. We
come together at a critical moment in the peace process. A
moment when, just last week in Oslo, both parties showed a
renewed determination to end one century of bloodshed by
beginning a new century of real and lasting peace. [more] If we
stay on this path, we have a chance to reach a day once only
dreamed of by poets and prophets. But, as we saw last week, it
will never come easy.
The terrorists who struck [tbd], were targeting not only our
sons and daughters, mothers and fathers. They were targeting not
only our sense of security and humanity. They were also targeting
the peace process, hoping that violence would cause the parties to
throw up their hands in defeat. But, it didn't work. The very next
day, Prime Minster Barak and Yassir Arafat sat down at the
negotiating table to move forward on the commitments made in
Oslo.
And in doing so, they made clear that terrorists will not stand
in the way of majority of people who have said enough blood and
tears, enough gravesites filled with young soldiers who paid the
ultimate price for their country's freedom.
7
When my daughter and I went to the Kotel [Wall] this
afternoon, I tucked between the massive stones a prayer for all the
children of Israel. And, as I looked around, I was reminded of the
photos I had seen growing up those pictures of the young Israeli
paratroopers collapsing and weeping against the Western Wall
after it was liberated in the Six Day War.
Rabin used to talk about how these soldiers were not used to
great displays of emotion, and were simply overcome by the
battles they'd waged, the sense of salvation the felt, the
confrontation with Jewish history they had encountered. That day,
they had united their sacred Old City - and that's how it must
remain - the eternal and indivisible capital of Israel.
If we are to reach the Promised Land of peace and security,
then we must remember that in Hebrew, shalom does not just mean
the absence of war. It means to make whole, to complete, to heal.
I saw that at Elem, where children are walking up to vans and
finding people who will care for them and listen to them. [more to
come] [West Bank story?]
And, right before coming here, Mrs. Barak and I planted an
olive tree at the Rabin Medical Center. Inside, I had met mothers
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cradling their newborns in a state-of-art facility. These
children
Arab and Jewish
may ultimately be the first generation
to grow up in an Israel free from terror and war.
And if that is going to happen, then each of us must find a
way to finish Prime Minister Rabin's journey. It will take
courageous leaders on all sides, willing to stand up and be counted
and sit down and negotiate. Rabin liked to remind us that you
make peace with enemies, not friends.
We saw that kind of determination last week, at the peace
rally held at Rabin Square. The security agents told Prime
Minister Barak it was too dangerous to take a stand for peace that
day. He was told to stay home - or at the very least to wear a
bullet-proof vest.
But, Prime Minister Barak refused. He stood in the spot
where Rabin lost his life. His wife was by his side. Leah Rabin
was there. And, with great emotion, the Prime Minister looked out
at the blue and white Israeli flags. He looked out at the thousands
of people who were refusing to let hatred win and he said: "We
are not afraid. We are not afraid." "Yitzhak, your way has won."
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If we are going to reach that Promised Land, then the
American people must always stand by Israel as she takes risks for
peace. [Ambassador story?]
We must stand by her as a facilitator, not a dictator, of peace.
I have met so many parents in Israel who have lived with the terror
of bombs and violence for far too long. They have buried their
own children. They have worried every day, that their husbands
will not make it home alive. And they know that peace can only
be real and lasting if it comes with a guarantee of Israeli security -
and a commitment to fight terrorism.
Last December, Bill and I went with Leah and Dalia and Noa
to visit the Prime Minister's grave. The President brought with
him a rock from Wye River, knelt down and placed it there. And
as he did, we promised our friend that we would never give up on
the peace process.
We can honor the peace process by opposing any actions that
circumvent the negotiating table. We can honor the peace process
by continuing to stand up for the foreign aid which is necessary for
Israeli security - and global security.
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And, we can she honor the peace process by making good on
the promises we made at Wye River. [And I am so pleased that
Congress has now passed a budget that does that.] [rewrite
paragraph to make it snappier?]
But, I have also seen how important it is for the American
people to open their own wallets and hearts to support Israel and
the Jewish heritage and values that have been passed down for
more than 3,500 years. Last year, I visited the Hadassah hospital,
and saw people getting the best possible care around. No one
asked, what religion do you worship? The only questions were,
"What is wrong? And how can we help? [Marlene Post?]
And just last month, I visited a Jewish School in Warsaw
that is supported by Ron Lauder. There was a time, not long ago,
when many thought that this Jewish community, decimated by the
Holocaust, would not survive. But, in this school, you can see it
being revived in the children learning Hebrew and Jewish history.
You can see it being revived in the boy who told me that his father
had only recently realized he was Jewish. And you could hear the
Jewish Community being revived in the beautiful voices of all the
students - Jewish and non-Jewish - who joined together to sing
"Shalom" [ck].
11
In her extraordinary book about her husband and their life
together, Leah Rabin talks about the warnings the Prime Minister
received about the rally. But, she says there was something else
that worried him far more on that tragic day. Would people come?
Would they come to say that the Israeli people wanted peace,
supported peace, would fight for peace? Yes, they did it quietly.
But here was a chance for them to tell the entire country and world.
Rabin understood that peace does not miraculously appear
the minute an agreement is signed by leaders. It has to lodge in the
hearts and everyday lives of its citizens. In the way they treat each
other. In the lessons they teach their children as they tuck them
into bed at night. Peace is built and nurtured by the people who
decide to defy generations of hatred to rewrite history.
We think of Nacshon Wachsman, who was kidnapped in
1995. Thousands went to the Western Wall to pray for his safety.
The whole country held its breath. Prime Minister Rabin ordered a
rescue operation. And, during it, Nachson and the head of the
rescue operation were both killed.
12
Those of us with children cannot imagine the pain his parents
must have felt. That kind of loss could have hardened any heart,
and scared even the bravest away from peace. But, not his parents.
Esther Wachsman has carried on, working with children with
disabilities. [tbd] Wachsman has carried on, speaking out for
peace, reaching out to the parents of Palestinians wounded or
killed. He just returned from Oslo with Prime Minister Barak.
They are both here with us today - and I want to thank them for
their extraordinary courage and commitment.
Now, I have been privileged to meet peacemakers like her all
over the world. From Northern Ireland to El Salvador, women
who had lost sons, fathers, husbands, and loved ones, women who
had fought each other in war, were now sitting across the table
from one another to build a common future.
Think if you will, for a moment, of a place like Kigali,
Rwanda, where 800,000 men, women, and children were
slaughtered in the space of just a few months. I have been there. I
have met with women and men, with leaders and citizens as they
attempt to make sense of future so stained with blood.
13
I met not long ago, with women from Rwanda, who asked
me for one thing. It wasn't resources from our government. They
asked me if I could help them build a playground in the middle of
Kigali. They understood that it takes those small steps, those daily
acts of courage. And, they envisioned a playground where
children would play again and where their parents would once
again believe in the future.
And, a few years ago, I met a group of women in Bosnia,
who in the aftermath of that war had come together to rebuild their
lives. One of them gave me a sculpture of a woman. It's about
this tall. And, like many women, she is standing very proudly.
But, embedded in her knee are pieces of shrapnel. Real shrapnel
that had been collected off the streets and out of the fields of that
conflict. They were tangible symbols of the war and the pain she
has endured.
But, on her heart is her hand. And on her hand is a dove.
And on her face is a confident smile. And I look at her and I think
if she could talk, if that small statue could just have a voice, she
would say something like, 'Despite the past, I will dream and work
for my children to live in peace.'
14
That was, above all, the peace that Prime Minister Rabin
gave his life to pursue. When my husband honored him last week
in Oslo, he mentioned an event we hosted at the White House last
month. We had brought together some of the leading geneticists to
talk about how these revolutions in biology and information are
changing how we live.
And one of them said something remarkable. And that is that
despite all our many outward differences - race and religion,
ethnicity and tribe, gender and region - we are still 99.9 percent
identical in our genetic make-ups. And in fact, we are more
similar to people in other ethnic and religious groups than we are
to those in our own. Think about what that means. All of the wars.
All of the violence. All of the hatred of this tumultuous century is
based on that one tenth of one percent. Over and over in the
Torah, we are told to love thy neighbor.
So, if we are going to reach the Promised Land of peace and
security, then we must start by teaching our children to respect one
another - to turn their swords into plowshares -- and to open their
hearts to peace and freedom.
15
When I visited Neve Shalom last year, I saw children -
Jewish, Muslim, and Christian - learning about each other's
religious holidays. They work together. They live together. They
visit each other's homes. And, I heard about one girl who picked
up a newspaper and saw a picture of a Jewish and Arab child
holding hands. And, she went to her father, confused, because she
couldn't figure out why two children holding hands would be in
the newspaper - why something so normal to her would be
considered newsworthy. Well, I hope we get to the time when that
is not newsworthy.
[I heard about young girls who are part of a program at a
community art center. They are Muslims and Jews. They don't
speak the same language. They don't wear the same clothes. They
don't honor the same customs. But, they speak through art, and,
for years, they have learned to understand each other through the
projects they create together. If you walk into the Center, you will
see them building bridges together. They use twigs, plaster,
leaves, and ropes. Each of them is different than the next. But all
are them is building something even bigger - a foundation for
peace in the future.]
16
Now, at this time of great change, there are many who will
try to get us to go back to the past. I think often of the story in the
Bible of Moses leading his people out of Egypt. You can imagine
people who had been enslaved for generations, thinking they were
on the way to the Promised Land.
But it was hard. There were many obstacles along the way.
So when Moses went up to receive the Ten Commandments, what
happened? Well, many of the Jewish refugees fleeing from Egypt
got together and decided they needed a committee to go back; that
they wanted to return; that, as bad as things had been, at least it
was a known evil.
So the Back-to-Egypt Committee was formed. And when
Moses came down with the Ten Commandments, he was met by
people who said, "This is too hard. We can't do this anymore.
Let's go back to slavery. At least there, we get our bread three
times a day, we know what our job is, we don't have to think for
ourselves, we don't have to break new ground."
Well, that is in the Bible for a reason. It tells us about human
nature. It describes to us what happens in every generation any
time there is great change.
17
There are always those who want to "go back to Egypt," or,
in this case turn back from the peace process. But, Rabin's legacy
tells to continue along the path. That the price is worth paying.
For our children and their children and their children.
If we end this century of bloodshed with a lasting peace,
imagine the message it would send about how we want to live in
the next century imagine the inspiration it would give to others
living in trouble spots around the world. [most appropriate
examples?]
When I was at Shaare Zedek today, I heard a story about two
infants, one Jewish and one Muslim, who were both x-rayed the
same day. When the x-rays came back, strangely, they both
included a strange rectangular outline - that had absolutely no
technological or medical explanation. Well, it turned out, two
small booklets were found tucked away under the sheets. The
mother of the Muslim child had left a Koran. The mother of the
Jewish child had left a copy of The "Angel Raziel."
18
All parents have the same dreams and hopes and prayers for
their children. The child whose stuffed bear I saw at Yad Veshem.
The soldiers who were killed on Israel's road to Independence.
The babies that are being cared for at the Rabin Medical Center
and at the maternal health clinic in the West Bank [?]. The
children learning lessons of peace.
When Rabin spoke at Yad Veshem four years ago, he said,
"We have known bereavement and holocaust - and we have
emerged from them all victorious. We have done so with the
power of our faith Man lives by his faith. Man dies by his faith.
We bear the dreams of generations. We shall not cast it off
now And it is this faith that guides us into the future - to the days
of remembrance and benevolence, to the days of peace."
[Ending]
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GREETERS
Major Gurkan Gulagiz
8:40am
WHEELS UP Istanbul
EN ROUTE Antalya
[flight time: 1 hour]
9:40am
WHEELS DOWN Antalya Airport
CLOSED PRESS
GREETERS:
Minister of Culture Istemihan Taley
Mrs. Nihal Taley
Governor Ertugrul Dokuzoglu
Mrs. Dokuzoglu
Mayor Bekir Kumbul
Mrs. Kumbul
9:55am
DEPART Antayla Airport
VIA Bus/Limo
EN ROUTE Perge
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10:10am
ARRIVE Perge
10:10-
TOUR OF RUINS AT ANCIENT CITY OF PERGE
11:10am
POOL PRESS
FORMAT:
- The First Lady arrives at Perge ruin site.
- The First Lady, Istemiham Talay, and Mrs. Talay
proceed to antique gate.
- The First Lady, Minister Talay, Mrs. Talay pose
photo opportunity.
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- The First Lady, accompanied by Chelsea Clinton,
Minister Talay, Toni Cross, and tour group,
tours ruin site.
- Upon conclusion of city tour, The First Lady
proceeds to the theatre site.
- The First Lady accompanied by tour group, tours
ancient Perge theatre.
- Upon conclusion of the theatre tour, The First
Lady proceeds to bus and departs.
PARTICIPANTS
The First Lady
Istemhan Talay
Turkish Minister of Culture
Mrs. Nihal Talay
Spouse of minister Talay
Mrs. Cankorel
Wife of Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mrs. Nur Ilkin
Wife of Turkish U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Joan Parris
Spouse of U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Sanivar Kizildeli
Protocol officer
Dr. Toni Cross
Director of Ankara Branch, American Research
Institute in Turkey, and Tour Guide
11:10am
DEPART Perge
EN ROUTE Aspendos
[drive time: 30 minutes]
11:40pm
ARRIVE Aspendos
11:45-
SPEECH AT ASPENDOS
12:30pm
Aspendos, Turkey
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT
- The First Lady Arrives.
- The First Lady and Minister of Culture Talay
are announced as they enter the theatre.
- The First Lady takes a seat on stage.
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- Minister Talay introduces The First Lady.
- The First Lady makes remarks.
- The First Lady has the option to work the
ropeline from right to left.
- The First Lady exits the theatre and returns to
the motorcade for the Antalya Museum.
PARTICIPANTS
The First Lady
Minister of Culture
104 guests
12:30pm
DEPART Aspendos
EN ROUTE Antalya Museum
[drive time: 40 minutes]
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1:10pm
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GREETERS:
Metir Pehlivanlier
Museum Director
Edip Qzgur
Archeologist and Tour Guide
1:10-
TOUR ANTALYA MUSEUM
1:55pm
Antalya Museum
Antayla, Turkey
CLOSED PRESS
FORMAT
- The First Lady and tour group proceed to the
Gallery of the Gods.
- The First Lady and tour group proceed to the
Gallery of the Emperors.
- The First Lady and tour group proceed to the
Mosaics Room.
- The First Lady and tour group proceed to the
Gallery of the Perge Theatre.
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- The First Lady and tour group proceed to the
Gallery of Sareohagi.
- The First lady and tour group proceed through
statue garden to museum entrance and depart.
PARTICIPANTS
The First Lady
Chelsea Clinton
Tour Group
1:55pm
DEPART Antayla Museum
EN ROUTE Scenic Overlook
[drive time: 5 minutes]
2:00pm
ARRIVE Scenic Overlook
2:20pm
DEPART Scenic Overlook
EN ROUTE Antalya Airport
[drive time: 20 minutes]
2:40pm
ARRIVE Antayla Airport
GREETERS:
Turkish Police Representatives (5)
Embassy Staff (25)
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3:00pm
WHEELS UP
EN ROUTE Istanbul
[flight time: 1 hour]
4:00pm
WHEELS DOWN Istanbul
GREETER
Major Gurkan Gulagiz
4:10pm
DEPART Airport
EN ROUTE Conrad Hotel
[drive time: 20 minutes]
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DEPART Conrad Hilton
EN ROUTE Istanbul Convention Center Exhibition and
Center
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6:05pm
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Center
6:10pm-
MEET PARTICIPANTS
6:15pm
6:15pm-
OSCE'S ROLE IN COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN
7:15pm
BEINGS
Anadolu Auditorium
Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center
Attire: Business
OPEN PRESS
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to the dais.
- Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek makes welcoming
remarks and introduces Dr. Selma Acuner,
Advisor to the Turkish State Minister for
Women's Affairs.
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- Dr. Selma Acuner makes remarks and introduces
President Ruth Dreifuss of Switzerland.
- President Dreifuss makes remarks and introduces
Helle Degn, President of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly.
- Helle Degn makes remarks and introduces
Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann, Director of the
ODIHR.
- Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann makes remarks and
introduces Tarja Halonen, Foreign Minister of
Finland.
- Tarja Halonen makes remarks and introduces
Stana Buchowska, from the NGO La Strada.
- After Ms. Buchowska speaks, Foreign Minister
Vollebaek introduces The First Lady.
- The First Lady gives brief remarks and departs.
7:20pm
DEPART Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center
EN ROUTE Conrad Hotel
[drive time: 15 minutes]
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7:35pm
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7:35pm-
GREET CONSULATE STAFF
8:05pm
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- Off-stage announcement of the President and the
First Lady.
- The First Lady makes brief remarks and
introduces the President.
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- The President makes remarks.
- The President and The First Lady work a
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8:10pm
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VIA Presidential Motorcade
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MOTORCADE MANIFEST
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8:25pm
ARRIVE Swiss Hotel
GREETERS:
President Demiril
Mrs. Demiril
8:30pm-
OSCE SUMMIT DINNER WITH POTUS
10:10pm
Swiss Hotel
Attire: Business
POOL PRESS
FORMAT
- President Demiril makes welcoming remarks.
- Dinner is served.
- Upon conclusion of dinner, the President and the
First Lady depart.
10:10pm
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Remarks on Cultural Preservation
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Remarks on Cultural Preservation
By First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Aspendos, Turkey
November 18, 1999
Thank you very much. I'm honored and delighted to be here with our daughter and some of the
distinguished representatives of the Turkish government and the Turkish speaker, as well as
Americans who are by me. It is always a pleasure for me to come to Turkey, and the visit that my
husband and I have made in the last several days has deepened my appreciation and affection for the
Turkish people. And we want to thank you for the extraordinary warmth and gracious hospitality that
has been extended to us.
And Mr. Minister, I wish to thank the governor. I wish to thank also the wife of our ambassador, the
wife of the Turkish ambassador, the mayor and other distinguished representatives of both Turkey
and the United States.
Ataturk once said that if he had not been the head of state, he would have chosen to be the minister of
Culture. Today, having visited some additional monuments and museums as well as what I saw
yesterday in Ephesus, I understand very well why Ataturk would have wanted your job, Mr. Minister.
To travel through Turkey is truly to travel through the history of the human experience on earth. So
many great civilizations rose and fell on this land. So many of the heroes and legends of the ancient
world walked along these shores, over these mountain ranges, and through these valleys. This is
where, we are told, Noah landed his Arc and Abraham set forth for the Promised Land. Where King
Midas reigned and prospered. Where Alexander the Great pushed eastward toward India and where
the nomadic tribes of Central Asia pushed westward and stayed for centuries. Where Saint Paul of
Tarsus first spread the gospel, and where Islam won new believers, and where Jews found refuge
from their expulsion from Spain.
During my two extended visits to Turkey, I have been privileged to see some of the monuments and
artifacts of this layered heritage. I have inspected the Mother Goddess figurines and cuneiform tablets
at the Museum of Anatolian Civilization in Ankara. I have walked along the marble streets of
Ephesus, first with my daughter and yesterday with my husband and daughter. I have stood in awe
inside the Haiga Sophia, marveled at the beautiful tiles of the Blue Mosque, and explored the endless
rooms of Topkapi Palace.
Like so many visitors to these sites, I was overcome by the richness, the diversity and legacy of these
achievements, by all that had sprung from the mind and muscle of the varied people who shared,
fought or succeeded each other on this land.
The world owes a tremendous debt to the people of Turkey for the care with which you have
protected your cultural inheritance. It is a tradition that began-like so much of the progress of
Turkey-with the vision and spirit of Ataturk. In 1920, just two weeks after the opening of the First
Grand National Assembly, and with independence far from certain, Ataturk took the time to create a
Department of Antiquities. He toured Ephesus, he came here to Aspendos, he encouraged excavations
of Hittite ruins and took steps to protect them all.
And even though he faced many challenges in those first years of the Republic, he had the wisdom to
make what so many other leaders might have considered a luxury, a national priority.
Ataturk knew-and we must never forget-that culture is the soul of life. It is what gives us roots,
gives our lives meaning and binds us to each other.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/generalspeeches/1999/19991118a.html_7/3/2000.
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The American writer William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It is not even past." Well
certainly as you stand here, we can see it is not past. It is around us, it is part of our present, and if we
pay attention and listen to its lessons, it can also be part of our future.
After all, not only the blood, but the experiences and hopes of our ancestors course through our veins.
And only through their still-living monuments and still-living traditions can we understand who we
are, where we came from, and what we wish to be.
We look at the finely drawn paintings on caves or on walls, the intricate patterns on vases and bowls
and delicately wrought jewelry, and we can marvel at the sophistication and creativity of ancient men
and women. We look to the great mosques and early churches that dot this country, and we can see
the power of religion and the pull of faith in the lives of our ancestors.
And when we look at this magnificent theater, with its still-perfect acoustics and accommodation for
an audience of 20,000, we can see so vividly the important role the performing arts played in this
outpost of the Roman Empire.
This and so many other treasures have survived the ages, but we know that many other clues to our
shared past are in danger, unless we take action today. Now more than ever, we must rise to the
challenge of protecting and enlarging our cultural heritage. I truly believe that as we end this century
and begin a new one, we are living in one of the most exciting times of human history. Technological
progress, the Internet, faxes, satellites, jet travel have indeed brought our world closer together.
But we also see what globalization does to obscure our unique cultures and traditions. From Topkapi
Palace to the Taj Mahal, I have seen young people dressed in the same brand name t-shirts and
talking about the same TV shows or movie characters. It is when I see globalized popular culture
juxtaposed against some of our world's most unique cultural treasures that I am particularly reminded
of the urgency that we must give to preserving that which is permanent in what often appears to be a
throwaway world.
That is why on the eve of a third millennium, we must work together to respect, preserve and unearth
the rich treasures of Turkey.
We know that despite all of the extraordinary work of the Turkish government and Turkish people,
along with partners like Dr. Toni Clark and others who are here with us today, that there has been
wonderful work done, but we have just scratched the surface of Turkey's cultural treasury. Who
knows how many paintings of long extinct animals or intricate mosaics of still-revered saints lie
untouched under years of dirt; how many primitive clay pots or bejeweled chalices of gold; how
many keys to the past remain buried deep in the Anatolian soil.
I am very proud that my country, the United States, and Turkey have been partners in this
preservation endeavor for more than a century. Of the 100 archeological digs this year in Turkey, 19
of them were led by Americans, including those in Classical Troy, Gordion and Sardis. Where once
the goal of this partnership was to unearth antiquities and ship them to museums back in the U.S.,
today American archeologists seek only knowledge from these digs. Since 1970, the United States
has been proud to join Turkey as members of the World Heritage Convention and the 1970
Convention to reduce pillage and illicit trade of archeological and ethnological materials, and we will
continue to ensure that Turkey's vast cultural inheritance remains in Turkey.
The exchange of information, discoveries and ideas between American and Turkish researchers and
scientists has been invaluable to the growth of knowledge about the antiquities over the years. But
that knowledge might grow even faster if Turkish and Greek archaeologists could find more
opportunities to share their knowledge about their shared classical heritage.
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That is why I am pleased to announce that the United States, through our Embassy in Ankara, will
award grants to the American Research Institute in Turkey, and to the American Schools of Classical
Studies in Athens, to support Turkish and Greek scholars who want to pursue research in their
counterpart countries. It is our hope that through these scholarships, we can foster not only greater
knowledge and appreciation of a common history, but new friendships between old rivals.
And we must find ways to link cultural preservation to progress and economic development
throughout Turkey. All around the world, we have seen what can happen when culture is considered
last or not at all in plans for economic development. For the sake of progress, we have seen cultural
treasures degraded by poorly managed tourism and historic buildings knocked down and replaced
with parking lots. I applaud Turkey for the steps you are taking to balance tourism and preservation
around the country, and particularly at Pamukkale.
I am very pleased that the World Bank and the government of Turkey are currently discussing a
project to preserve great cultural monuments and promote economic development throughout the
nation. We all hope that this project becomes a reality in the months to come.
I also believe there is a wonderful opportunity to enlist citizens, young and old alike, in the task of
preserving cultural heritage. Government alone cannot be left that responsibility. We in the United
States have been fortunate to rely on a strong partnership between the public and private sectors to
preserve our treasures-as young as they are. Two years ago, my husband and I created a White
House Millennium Council to lead us in a celebration of the coming millennium by helping
American citizens to "honor the past and imagine the future." I have traveled around the country
bringing attention to historic sites and encouraging NGOs, private sector leaders, and local
communities to come together to save America's treasures. Well certainly there are far more treasures
to be preserved and saved here in Turkey.
In 1935, Ataturk said that, and I quote, "It is necessary that the people themselves who are the real
owners of our historical and national monuments become the protectors of antiquities."
I know that there are already NGOs and private citizens throughout Turkey who are answering the
call in ways large and small to become, in Ataturk's words, the "protectors of antiquities." They are
identifying the towns and sites where they can make a difference, and are stepping forward to ensure
that their treasures can tell the story of their heritage well into the next century.
I am very pleased that an American NGO, the World Monuments Fund, is working with Turkish
NGOs to preserve Turkey's heritage-from the prehistoric to the Ottoman. And I am pleased to
announce that they will soon begin a project here in Antalya to restore the portal of the Corinthian
Temple at Patara.
But I also ask you to look to your children as potential leaders in cultural preservation. Anyone who
has ever seen the concentration a child can bring to a hobby or a sports event or a story knows that
children have a tremendous capacity for soaking up knowledge and history. They are innate curators
and preservationists. So why not, in this age of globalization, remind them early of their unique and
diverse heritages and help them learn to take responsibility for preservation, to teach them to respect
culture and recognize the stake they have in preservation and maintenance for future generations?
I have seen many such efforts around the world that are enlisting children in this important task of
historic preservation. In Italy, I visited with children from the "Adopt-a-Monument" program that
encourages school children to choose a historic monument and take responsibility for its care. In both
Palermo and Naples, I saw how children had worked hard to revive long-neglected, centuries-old
churches. They studied the church's history, they cleaned up and picked up the refuse, they developed
guided tours of their monument. And then they were eager to tell me and others about the story of
their church. I could hear the pride in their voices as they recounted the historic events that had taken
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place within those walls.
In my country I have seen similar actions taken by children and heard the delight in their voices as
well. Through a new effort called "Pennies for Preservation," school children are literally raising
pennies to save historic places. For example, they helped to save the home of Harriet Tubman, the
famous ex-slave who led many other slaves to freedom in the nineteenth century. Though the
children's monetary contributions were modest, their interest in the fate of this historic place and the
woman for whom it was named was priceless.
Enlisting children can also have benefits beyond cultural preservation. I have worked with so-called
"at-risk" children—those at risk of dropping out of school or becoming violent or criminals. And we
have learned time and time again, that when children are given the opportunity to participate in arts
and culture, they will seize that as something positive to do. Studies in our own country have shown
that arts programs, more than anything else, are effective in bringing out the intellectual and creative
potential of such children. And I have met many young men and women who have told me that had it
not been for a writing or art or performance class, they very well could have been on the street or in
jail. So those who run museums and schools can be called on to reach out to these children as well.
Standing in this finely preserved Roman theater reminds us that Turks and Americans are committed
to the cause of historic preservation not only for what it teaches us about the past, but what it can say
to us in the future. As we look around this magnificent structure, it is not difficult to imagine these
seats filled as they were 1,800 years ago, with citizens gathered for a day's entertainment, holding
tickets carved out of bone and ivory, with judges, senators, and other dignitaries watching from the
front row, and women from the gallery.
We can hear the echoes of audiences, but what do they tell us about today and our future? Well I
think certainly they tell us that we have a lot to learn. I learned today about the contributions of the
Anatolian people towards the drafting of our own Constitution, because of their commitment to
proportional representation. We also can be reminded of how the theater is a common experience and
that despite our increasing reliance on the Internet and the work we do in cyberspace, it is doubtful
we will ever replace that common experience of being together for an event of some sort.
So I hope that Americans and Europeans and literally people from all over the world will come to
Turkey, will be tourists here, respectful visitors who will appreciate the glorious past and the present,
as well as the future of this dynamic country. By coming here, we Americans pay homage not only to
Turkey's past, but with Ataturk, we proclaim that acknowledging and respecting that past is one of
the ways for us to build a future together. And that after all, is, I think, the highest goal we share.
As my husband said in Parliament, we believe that Turkey has as glorious a future in the 21st century
as this theater represents from the past. But the only way any of us can build the kind of future we
imagine for our children and for generations to come is by being respectful of one another. Respectful
of our different heritage, our faiths, our beliefs, our pasts and experiences, and then taking from the
best of those so that we can build our common future together. So someday, perhaps in the 22nd or
23rd century, there might be a meeting in cyberspace with archeologists and preservationists and
ministers who will look back and will say, "The Turkish citizens at the end of the 20th and beginning
of the 21 century, along with their friends the Americans, kept faith with their pasts and built a
future worthy of both of them."
Thank you very much.
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Traf in Turkey
SCENE SETTER: First Lady's November 18, 1999, OSCE Event on
Trafficking in Human Beings (Women and Children), Istanbul,
Turkey
The Chairman's Trafficking event will take place in main
Summit venue, in "The Blue Room", at the conclusion of the
second plenary sessions. The event will take approximately
45 minutes. Scheduled time is 1800 November 18. The
following is a proposed agenda:
Opening by OSCE Norwegian Chair (3 minutes)
Introduction; Announcement of Norway's intention
to host a conference addressing the issue of trafficking
in the OSCE (Spring 2000)
Address by Turkish government representative (3 minutes)
Welcome on behalf of host country
Address by Baltic representative, tentatively Latvian
President (5 minutes)
Problem of trafficking from
OSCE participating state perspectivé
Address by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President (5
minutes)
Role of parliaments and legislation
in combating trafficking in women
Statement by Ambassador Stoudmann, Director ODIHR (5
minutes)
Overview of the OSCE
trafficking action plan
Statement by La Strada, a NGO from Poland (5 minutes)
NGO role in combating trafficking and
support for OSCE action
Address by the First Lady of the United States (10
minutes)
Summation of the topic,
announcement of deliverables
Closing remarks by OSCE Norwegian Chair (2 minutes)
We expect an audience of Non-Governmental Organization
representatives and delegation representatives, including
interested Heads-Of-State and Foreign Ministers. The
Norwegian CIO will issue invitations, with invitation list
being coordinated with the President's Council. Media will
also be encouraged to attend. This event will not only
provide an opportunity for participating states to address
the issue of trafficking, but will also create a forum for
participating States to commit their support to the OSCE
action plan to combat trafficking in 2000.
states are represented in the OSCE, making the OSCE a
proper forum to adopt a comprehensive strategy to combat
this problem.
Second, the OSCE has established a commitment to fight
trafficking as set out in the 1991 Moscow Document which
states that participating States "seek to eliminate all
forms of violence against women and exploitation of
prostitution of women including by ensuring public
official accountability and adequate legal prohibitions
against such acts and other appropriate measures." The
OSCE Charter we will adopt at the Summit will deepen our
commitment to fighting trafficking.
Third, OSCE fora provide mechanism for review of
compliance with commitments and focus attention on how we
can work together toward achievement of our goals to
eliminate this scourge.
Fourth, the OSCE is operational. Its institutions such as
the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
(ODIHR) can provide concrete program assistance to
countries committed to fighting trafficking. OSCE's
recommendation to the Stability Pact that the OSCE
Mission in Croatia take the lead in coordinating a Task
Force to Combat Trafficking provides ample evidence of
the OSCE's increasing operational determination to engage
on this issue
At the 1998 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Review
Meeting and Supplementary Meeting on Gender Issues in 1999,
both State delegations and non-governmental organizations
identified trafficking as a key human rights issue
requiring intensified action by the OSCE and the
participating States. As a follow-up to these meetings and
in anticipation of the OSCE Review Conference in November,
the OSCE's Office of Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights (ODIHR) has proposed an action plan of OSCE projects
and initiatives to combat trafficking in 2000.
The implementation of the action plan could serve as a
basis to focus the efforts of participating states around
the three key areas of Prevention, Protection of Victims,
and Prosecution of Traffickers. Moreover, implementation of
the action plan would allow ODIHR to direct attention to
specific program areas: rule of law; civil society;
migration; and human rights. An OSCE action plan will allow
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Objective
To provide high level support for a strong OSCE role in
combating trafficking by having FLOTUS participate in a
summit-related event.
Background
At the 1998 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Review
Meeting and Supplementary Meeting on Gender Issues in 1999,
both State delegations and non-governmental organizations
identified trafficking as a key human rights issue requiring
intensified action by the OSCE and the participating States.
As a follow-up to these meetings and in anticipation of the
OSCE Review Conference in November, the OSCE's Office of
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has
proposed an action plan of OSCE projects and initiatives to
combat trafficking in 2000.
FLOTUS participated in the October 8-10 conference in
Reykjavik, Iceland, "Women and Democracy at the Dawn of the
New Millennium" in conjunction with the Vital Voices
Democracy Initiative. At the conference, the Norwegians
expressed great interest in taking actions against
trafficking and in protecting the victims. Norway, the
current OSCE Chairman, agreed to host an event addressing
the issue of trafficking during the Summit.
FLOTUS is an eloquent international spokesperson in the
campaign against trafficking and has devoted considerable
attention to the issue. She will draw significant numbers
to a Summit event that we can use to rally support for
ODIHR's action plan to combat trafficking, including
deliverables by the United States and Norway (they plan to
host OSCE trafficking conference next spring). This event
will also serve to highlight other U.S. activities against
trafficking and encourage support from the part of other
OSCE member States.
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Event Modalities
The event would take place in main Summit venue in a side
hall at the conclusion of the second plenary sessions to
avoid conflicting with events for Heads of State and Foreign
Ministers. The event would take approximately 45 minutes.
Scheduled time is 1800 November 18.
Agenda
1. Opening by OSCE Norwegian Chair, introduction (3 minutes)
2. Address by Turkish government representative, welcome on
behalf of host country (3 minutes)
3. Address by Baltic rep (Latvian President) - Problem of
trafficking from OSCE participating state perspective (5
minutes)
4. Address by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President-Role of
parliaments and legislation in combating trafficking in
women (5 minutes)
5. Statement by Amb. Stoudmann, Director ODIHR-trafficking
action plan (5 minutes)
6. Statement by NGO La Strada-NGO role in combating
trafficking and support for OSCE action (5 minutes)
7. Address by FLOTUS-announcement of deliverables, summation
of topic (10 minutes)
8. Closing remarks by OSCE Norwegian Chair (2 minutes)
We plan an audience of NGO reps and delegation reps
including interested HOS and FMs. The Norwegian CIO will
issue invitations, with invitation list being coordinated
with the President's Council. Media will also be encouraged
to attend.
Deliverables
We propose the U.S. make a contribution of $250,000 to an
OSCE/ODIHR voluntary fund for anti-trafficking support. We
anticipate matching contributions from other countries.
This contribution would be announced by FLOTUS during the
event.
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UNCLASSIFIED
1. Definition of Trafficking in Human Beings
A form of modern-day slavery; at its core, trafficking in
human beings is about abduction, coercion, violence and
exploitation in the most reprehensible ways.
A global issue, one of human rights, economics,
migration, transnational crime, labor and public health.
Involves the recruitment, transport, sale or receipt of
persons within a nation or across international borders
through force, fraud, deception or coercion for placing
persons in situations of slavery like conditions, forced
labor services. Examples include forced prostitution,
domestic servitude, bonded sweatshop labor or other debt
bondage.
USG policy is not limited to addressing trafficking for
purposes of sexual exploitation. USG is taking action to
stop the buying and selling of human beings for all forms
of slavery-like practices, forced labor or services.
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1. Scope of the Problem
Difficult to estimate true magnitude due to nature of the
problem- underground industry, heavy involvement of
organized criminal groups, victims are scared to come
forward. Most numbers are "soft," most estimates are
anecdotal or difficult to extrapolate from limited case
studies.
USG estimates over seven hundred thousand women and
children are trafficked around the world each year.
Estimate is conservative- only includes trafficking
across international borders.
Overwhelming majority of victims are women and girls,
although men and boys also are trafficked
45,000 women and children are trafficked into the U.S.
annually, primarily from Latin America, the former Soviet
Union and South East Asia. (30,000 from South East Asia,
10,000 from Latin America, 4,000 from Former Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe, 1,000 from other regions)
Thailand, China, the Philippines, Russia, Ukraine, the
Baltic countries, the Czech Republic, and Mexico are key
source countries to the U.S.
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3. Major Countries for Trafficking around the World
Eastern Europe and Eurasia - Russia and Ukraine are major
source countries.
Europe- Poland and the Czech Republic are major source
countries; Western Europe holds several destination
countries, including the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, UK,
and Spain
Southeast Asia- major source countries are Thailand,
Burma, China, and the Philippines; several countries in
region are also destination countries, including Thailand
and Japan.
South Asia- Bangladesh and Nepal are major source
countries; India and Pakistan are major destination
countries.
Latin America- Brazil and the Dominican Republic are
major source countries
Africa- Nigeria is major source country.
North America- Canada and the U.S. are major destination
countries.
Flow of victims is generally from underdeveloped nations
toward industrialized nations or toward neighboring
countries with marginally higher standards of living.
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4. Expansion of Industry
Trafficking in human beings is a very old phenomenon. New
aspect of trafficking is the heavy involvement of
organized criminal groups, lured by enormous profits and
relatively low risk for prosecution, compared with
narcotics trafficking and other criminal activities.
Criminal groups of all levels of sophistication are
involved in the industry.
Globalization of trade, improved international
transportation infrastructures, economic crises in the
former Soviet Union and Asia, and technological
advancements like the internet have contributed to an
explosion of trafficking cases around the world.
The former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are the
fastest growing regions for trafficking countries of
origin.
Continued expansion is likely, due to persistent lack of
viable economic opportunities for Women in Eastern Europe
and Eurasia and Asia, weak visa and border controls in
countries of origin and destination, the low status of
women, huge profits and relatively low risk of
prosecution for traffickers.
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5. Economic Component to Trafficking
disproportionately affecting women and girls, are major
Poverty and lack of economic opportunity,
forces driving the trafficking industry.
Women in countries with economies in transition or
undergoing fundamental political, economic and social
transformations often have experienced a reduction or
deprivation of income.
Poverty and economic desperation among women and girls
that drive the trafficking industry are directly related
to their lack of access to economic opportunities,
support services, and resources, including credit, land
ownership and inheritançe.
Traffickers capitalize on rising unemployment and lack of
viable economic opportunities in countries of origin and
the low status of women around the world to coerce or
force victims into the trafficking scheme.
Victims are lured through false promises of good working
conditions at high pay as domestic workers, factory
workers, sex workers, nannies, waitresses, sales clerks
or models.
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6. Typical Trafficking Scenario
Scenarios and victim profiles vary substantially from
region to region. Traffickers use a variety of methods
to move victims within national and across national and
international boundaries.
Traffickers may operate through nominally reputable
employment, travel or entertainment companies, or
marriage agencies. Victims lured with false
advertisements and promises of jobs as models, dancers,
waitresses, and maids. Traffickers offer prospects for
travel and exciting cultural experiences.
Traffickers, much like narcotics traffickers, operate
across sovereign borders. Corruption among government
officials also facilitates the industry and undermines
law enforcement and rule of law
Once women arrive at destination, passports are taken and
victims often are forced into debt bondage and subjected
to extreme physical and mental abuse, including rape,
torture, starvation, imprisonment, death threats and
physical brutality.
Traffickers also buy young girls from family members.
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7. Laws against Trafficking
No comprehensive law against trafficking exists in U.S.
Criminal sanctions exist against components of
trafficking scheme. Traffickers currently prosecuted
under the Mann Act, labor and immigration laws, or
criminal laws against kidnapping, extortion, conspiracy,
mail and wire fraud.
Legislation to combat trafficking has been proposed in
Congress. PICW coordinating Administration response to
trafficking proposals in House and Senate.
Administration wants to work with Congress to craft
legislation that is consistent with the Administration's
three-part policy framework of prevention, protection and
assistance for victims, and prosecution and enforcement
against traffickers.
The USG is sponsoring a protocol to be associated with
the Transnational Crime Convention that requires
countries to enact laws to sanction trafficking in human
beings and protect victims.
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8. USG Anti-Trafficking Strategy
President Clinton issued a directive on March 11, 1998
establishing the United States' anti-trafficking strategy
involving the "3Ps:" Prevention, Protection and
assistance for victims, and Prosecution and enforcement
against traffickers.
Directive charged the President's Council on Women to
lead the development and coordination of domestic and
international policy on trafficking in women and
children, as part of the USG's broader commitment to
eliminate violence against women around the world.
Administration has shown tremendous commitment to this
issue and the Department of State, Department of Justice
and other relevant agencies have made significant
progress over the past year to advance the
Administration's anti-trafficking strategy.
The USG is working bilaterally, multilaterally, with
Congress and with NGOs to pursue this strategy within the
United States and abroad.
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9. President's Council on Women Activities:
Mobilize regional and functional bureaus including
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement, Consular Affairs,
Diplomatic Security, and Population, Refugees and
Migration.
Coordinate the efforts of Departments of Labor, Justice,
Health and Human Services with State, including USIA and
AID, through Interagency Working Group on Trafficking;
multi-faceted nature of problem requires interagency
cooperation.
Coordinate Administration response to trafficking
legislation introduced in House and Senate. Council has
drafted provisions to proposed legislation that may be
used as an administration stand-alone bill or as
amendments to existing proposals.
Worked closely with Justice to include several
trafficking-related provisions in the President's Crime
Bill, to develop new training on trafficking for
investigators and prosecutors across the country, and to
institutionalize enforcement efforts against trafficking.
Working to gain U.S. ratification of CEDAW, the most
comprehensive and detailed international treaty to date
that addresses the rights of women. CEDAW ratification
will allow U.S. to participate in the UN Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, a U.N. task
force which has taken on the issue of trafficking in
women and children, as well as give us a greater voice in
shaping policies to improve the status of women around
the world.
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10. DOS Activities
Over past year, regional and functional bureaus have
expanded their efforts to combat trafficking in countries
of origin, transit and destination, in keeping with the
Department's broader commitment to decrease violence
against women in all its forms.
Working to improve data collection and analysis and to
convene meetings in each region to strengthen local
capacities to address trafficking. Co-hosting a regional
workshop with the Government of the Philippines in March
2000 in Manila to initiate a comprehensive regional
action plan to combat trafficking in the EAP.
Coverage of trafficking in women and children, as well as
other human rights issues affecting women and girls, in
DRL's annually produced Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices.
Co-sponsoring public awareness campaigns with the
Governments of Italy and Ukraine to warn potential
victims of traffickers' recruiting methods and dangers of
the industry.
Developed "Be Smart, Be Safe" Brochure to alert women to
dangers of trafficking and where to get help in U.S.;
introduced brochures at embassies in Poland and Ukraine
in March, 1998
Working in cooperation with the EU, G8, ASEAN, and OSCE.
Co-sponsoring with the EU and OSCE social and economic
development programs for women in Ukraine and Poland to
provide economic alternatives to the lure of economic
opportunities offered by traffickers.
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11. Bilateral Initiatives
Developing and implementing comprehensive and integrated
strategy with Government of Ukraine; AID, PRM, and INL
have sponsored information campaigns, economic
alternative programs for victims, and training for law
enforcement officers in Ukraine.
Bilateral agreement with Government of Italy to combat
trafficking. Cooperative initiative focusing on
protection of victims, cooperation with NGOs, training
for law enforcement, and strengthening cooperation of our
criminal justice systems; third meeting of the U.S.-Italy
Working Group on Trafficking in Women and Children held
in July 1999. U.S. and Italian embassies in Lagos are
working with the Nigerian government to develop a public
awareness campaign to prevent trafficking in Nigeria.
Collaborating with Finland on initiative to assist in
prevention of trafficking and violence against women in
Baltic countries.
The U.S. and Israel exploring ways to work together to
reduce trafficking to Israel. The Department has shared
information on trafficking legislation and Israel is
beginning the development of public awareness programs.
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12. Multilateral Initiatives
Multilateral initiatives underway with the UN, EU, ASEAN
and the OSCE.
Introduced and is leading current negotiations on a UN
anti-trafficking protocol to be associated with the
Transnational Crime Convention; protocol will require
countries to enact laws to sanction trafficking in human
beings and protect victims.
Co-sponsored with the European Union public awareness
campaigns for women in Eastern Europe and Eurasia to
provide alternatives to the lure of economic
opportunities offered by traffickers.
U.S. has seconded an expert to the OSCE's Office of
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to examine
trafficking in the OSCE region and to recommend programs
to assist States in addressing the problem. Study will
focus on providing better protection for victims -- a
much-neglected component of the trafficking problem.
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The East-to-West Trafficking of Women and Children in OSCE
Countries
Illicit trafficking of women and children--primarily for sexual exploitation--from the
former Soviet Union and Southern and Eastern Europe has grown from a minor problem
before 1991 to an estimated 175,000 cases last year, or about 25 percent of trafficking
worldwide. This growth is due to:
The break-up of the USSR in 1991, which weakened border controls and
travel restrictions, making it easier to move victims overseas.
The extensive involvement of organized crime now prevalent throughout the
region. An abundance of reporting-from press, NGOs, and law enforcement
authorities abroad-indicate heavy involvement in such trafficking by the full
range of international criminal organizations and networks. At least 13
Russian organized crime groups and more than a dozen others of various
ethnicities-including Albanian, Estonian, Chechen, Serb, and Italian-are
involved in human trafficking in the region.
Economic uncertainty in the region that has made women vulnerable to
entrapment by traffickers offering foreign jobs.
A review of thousands of fragmentary reports suggests that:
Most victims from the OSEC countries come from Russia (30 percent),
Ukraine (20 percent), Poland (10 percent), the Czech Republic (10 percent),
The sheer political and economic might of the most powerful crime groups, as
well as lax laws and official corruption, enable traffickers of the former Bloc
region to operate with impunity, according to numerous local press accounts.
Fragmentary press reports suggests governments in source and transit
countries are making little progress in rooting out corrupt military, police, and
immigration officials who facilitate or turn a blind eye to trafficking. For
example, Russian authorities have investigated 20 known trafficking agencies
since 1997 without making any criminal charges, partly because police have
not made such investigations a priority, according to the press.
U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST IN COMBATING TRAFFICKING
Question:
How do USG activities to combat trafficking around the world
serve U.S. national interests?
Answer:
Our efforts to combat trafficking serve a variety of U.S.
national interests, including law enforcement, democracy and
human rights, and humanitarian response.
Trafficking is one of the most egregious human rights
violations of our time-- victims suffer extreme mental and
physical abuse, including rape, torture, starvation,
imprisonment, death threats and physical brutality. Our
humanitarian response to this issue seeks to. minimize the
enormous human costs associated with trafficking and to meet
the physical and mental health needs of trafficking victims.
Trafficking has become one of the fastest growing criminal
enterprises in the world and a major source of income for
international criminal syndicates. Immense profits support
and expand organized crime, including drug and arms
trafficking. We conservatively estimate that 45,000 women
and children are trafficked into the United States each
year.
Fundamental to women's participation in established and
emerging democracies is the assurance of their personal
safety and well being. Acts of violence against women,
including trafficking, inhibit women's free expression and
range of choice. Our efforts to stop trafficking and all
forms of violence against women seek government adherence to
democratic practices and recognition of women and girls'
human rights.
LEGISLATION TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING
Question:
What is your view on proposed legislation to combat
trafficking?
Answer:
The Department of State seeks action by Congress that will
support and strengthen the ambitious agenda we are pursuing
to stop trafficking and protect victims. We are working
with Congress to ensure that anti-trafficking legislation
address trafficking in all of its forms, not singularly for
purposes of sexual exploitation.
We also advocate measures to provide protection and
assistance for victims, recognizing the traumatic and brutal
experience they have suffered. Adequate protection will
require international cooperation between countries of
origin and destination.
We also believe that at this time, greater progress can be
made to stop and prevent trafficking through cooperative
efforts with countries of origin, transit and destination,
versus economic sanctions called for in some legislative
proposals. Most countries are in the early stages of
attempting to address this problem, and economic sanctions
can be counter-productive to economic development key to
trafficking prevention.
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OSCE's "Combating Human Trafficking" Signing
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Istanbul, Turkey
November 18, 1999
Thank you so much. Thank you very much, Stana. I am delighted to be here with the delegates and
the members of the NGO community-and so many other distinguished guests-to join all of you
here for this important session at this very significant OSCE Summit, and just briefly to add my voice
to those who have already spoken so eloquently this evening.
As I was listening to all of the speakers, I had a series of images running through my mind. I
remember very well crouching down by the chair of a 12-year-old girl who had been sold into
prostitution by her own parents who were desperate for the income that would come from that sale,
only to find that the child returned home within a year, dying of AIDS. I've met other families who
have stayed home nights worrying about what has happened to their daughters because they haven't
heard from them since they went to the discotheque, or answered the ad to be a nanny or a clerk, or
pursued some other economic opportunity that was offered.
We do, however, come together at a time when there is a growing global consensus, as we've already
heard, that is not only taking place here in Europe and in the United States, but is finally reaching
into many other parts of the globe. That consensus is a strong stand against the slavery that
trafficking in human beings represents.
Here tonight we have presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers, lawmakers and NGOs-
international organizations from all over the world. And I wish to thank the chairman for the work
you have done and for the leadership that your country has provided on this very critical issue. I also
wish to endorse the OSCE plan of action, which we have just heard described and which the United
States strongly supports.
Shortly before we gathered on the stage, I met with representatives of the Austrian government.
Austria is pledging to implement that plan of action when Austria assumes the chair of the OSCE in
the coming months. And that is only appropriate, because I remember very well speaking about
human rights and their particular application to the scourge that trafficking represents at our first
Vital Voices meeting-"Women in Democracy"-that was held in July of 1997 in Vienna, where
women leaders from throughout Eastern and Central Europe came together to share their concerns
and to hopefully come to some understanding of how they could work to meet those concerns and
challenges.
Many of those represented there-from both government and NGOs, from both the public and the
private sectors-shared their deep concern about the issue of trafficking. They told us in great detail
how so many women in their countries were desperate for economic opportunities and how they
thought they were following their dreams when they left their countries of origin to seek a better
future, they believed, only to find themselves in a nightmare-imprisoned by employers and often
never seen or heard from again.
Those voices, though, were heard when we all traveled to Iceland last month for another Vital Voices
conference. There were many Baltic and Nordic and Russian women leaders present. And again the
issue of trafficking was raised, most dramatically raised by the President of Latvia in her memorable
address. But it wasn't just to wring our hands and trade the terrible stories we knew, but instead to
develop and commit ourselves to strategies. Because in the last several years, the trafficking of girls
and women had finally come out of the shadows and moved into the spotlight and the glare of
attention that we hope will lead to the strategies you've heard discussed actually being implemented.
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In March of 1988, the United States government, through the President, announced an anti-trafficking
strategy focussing on what we call "the three p's"-prevention, protection and prosecution.
Prevention means, as we've heard, the education and empowerment of women so they do not fall
prey to trafficking. Protection means addressing the human rights of the victims and offering the
assistance that they require. And prosecution means doing more than we have done so far. One
percent of the 180,000 cases leading to prosecution is, we all know, much too low. We have to use
the full force of the law to root out those criminal networks that profit from trafficking.
To accomplish the goals that the United States has set, we have put our federal government to work,
led by our Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, but also including other departments and agencies,
including Labor, Justice, and Health and Human Services. We are working with our Congress to
develop the legislation necessary for the United States to take the action we know we should. We've
also developed partnerships with other governments, including Italy, Finland, and Ukraine. In some
cases, we are working together to protect victims. In others, we are using our resources to help put
into place education campaigns.
I'm very pleased to announce this evening that our government plans to dedicate $1 million to
combat trafficking in the OSCE region. With the approval of Congress, these funds will be available
to help girls and women in the coming months. The government of Norway will be hosting a
gathering next spring to talk about what we have accomplished and how much more work we have to
do. I hope that by next spring we will be able to look back at this meeting, and the ones that have
preceded it, and be able to mark the progress that has occurred.
I hope we will say that we have finally, in all of our governments, put the laws on the books that we
need to prevent this crime. I hope we will be able to say that we have provided resources to empower
the NGOs, like La Strada, that are on the front lines protecting women and girls from the abuse of
trafficking. I hope we will be able to say that in all of our countries our criminal justice systems now
take this issue of trafficking seriously and are putting resources to work in order to prosecute the
perpetrators. And I also hope we will have committed ourselves to even greater efforts to remove the
causes that lead young women to leave their homes of origin by working to ensure more economic
opportunities-through microcredit, through changes in the economic structures and the opening of
markets-in all of our countries. And I hope that we will take a strong stand on behalf of the social
justice concerns that underlie the issue of trafficking.
I also hope that we will have moved closer to achieving a consensus in the United Nations on an anti-
trafficking protocol. We have work to do, those of us in the United States and in Europe, to persuade
other nations throughout the world that the trafficking of women and girls is not a custom, is not an
inevitable part of fate that affects some and not others, but is, instead, an international crime. If we do
so, then we will be able to require all participating countries that signed the protocol to punish the
perpetrators and protect the victims.
There is much that we can do together. We come from source countries, from transit countries, from
destination countries; but all of us have a role to play in translating the extraordinary and eloquent
statements we have heard from this podium into the actions that each of us must be committed to
take. I look forward to learning more about the progress that we can make together, and looking for
ways that all of us-in government, NGOs, communities-can continue to stand against trafficking
and stand for the fundamental human rights of every single citizen.
Thank you all very much.
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TALKING IT OVER
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
January 19, 2000
Every day, in countries around the world, women and girls, desperate for
economic opportunity, and seeking to follow their dreams of a better life, are
lured from home by the promises of jobs and security. Sadly, though, they too
often find themselves trapped in a nightmare, imprisoned by employers,
mistreated, abused and often never seen nor heard from again.
Since the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, I have
been working to raise awareness of the heinous practice of buying and selling
women and children like commodities.
This week, representatives of over 100 countries, including the United States,
are meeting in Vienna to continue negotiating a United Nations treaty that
would protect these victims of trafficking and punish the perpetrators.
There are some who charge that international efforts to deal with trafficking
will somehow undermine laws designed to eliminate prostitution. This is
certainly not true. The U.S. government has made it absolutely clear that our
country will continue to support and enforce its laws and policies aimed at
ending prostitution in all its forms.
As the delegates debate the language of this vitally important treaty, it is critical
that we keep our eye on the real issue -- trafficking. Every year, approximately
1 million women and girls are trafficked and sold into a modern form of
slavery. The State Department believes that 50,000 of them, primarily from the
former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia and Latin America, end up right here in
our own country. Here are just a few examples of trafficking cases that have
been prosecuted in American courts:
Teenage Mexican girls, promised jobs in restaurants, child care and
landscaping, enslaved and forced into prostitution in Florida and the Carolinas;
Thai women held captive and forced to work in sweatshops in California; and
hearing-impaired men and women from Mexico -- enslaved, beaten and forced
to peddle trinkets on the streets of New York and other cities.
No country is doing more than the United States to bring the worldwide
trafficking of women and girls out of the shadows and into the glare of public
attention.
In the summer of 1997, I met with women leaders from Eastern and Central
Europe as well as victims' family members who, with tears in their eyes,
pleaded with me for help in dealing with this growing problem. Later that year,
in Lviv, Ukraine, I launched a new information campaign designed to warn
young women about the dangers posed by traffickers.
In March of 1998, I joined the President, Secretary of State Albright, Attorney
General Reno, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and a high-ranking member
of the Thai government for a White House announcement of a presidential
directive to prevent and deter trafficking and protect its victims.
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Last Fall, in Istanbul, Turkey, at the meeting of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe, I announced a $1 million U.S. commitment to
combat trafficking, and called for greater economic opportunities to prevent
young women from being driven into the hands of traffickers.
Our State Department is working in partnership with several foreign
governments. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Labor have
established a Worker Exploitation Task Force, which is actively investigating
and prosecuting trafficking cases in the United States.
And the administration is working with Congress to craft bipartisan legislation
to end trafficking by providing effective punishments for perpetrators and
protections for victims. Passing this legislation is critical if we are to continue
to make progress in fighting trafficking.
The draft U.N. treaty being debated in Vienna this week offers a unique
opportunity to bring the power of international consensus, backed by
punishment of the criminals and much-needed assistance for the victims, to the
issue of trafficking.
In no way will it, as critics claim, weaken existing international law or the laws
of any individual nation. In fact, it will punish those who profit from buying
and selling human beings, and encourage countries to offer truly unprecedented
protections to the victims -- including the possibility of lawful resident status,
health care, shelter, restitution, and other tools to rebuild their lives.
Every day, more women and girls are being sold into the sex industry, domestic
servitude, sweatshop labor, debt bondage and other forms of modern-day
slavery. These crimes are violations of human dignity, and the United States
will not rest until they are stopped.
We must not allow those who would distort the truth about this treaty derail the
process. If they do, the only winners will be the international criminals who
prey on desperate women and girls. The losers will be the victims of trafficking
who, unless we take steps to protect them now, will continue to suffer
unspeakable harm. They need our help. We must not let them down.
To find out more about Hillary Rodham Clinton and read her past columns,
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