Posted on: 07 July 2006
5-6 July, 2006
‘Urgent Need for Coherent Approach to Global Development’
The TCD conference, Ireland and Global Development: Strengthening Financial, Trade and Health Systems, was organised by Trinity College’s Institute for International Integration Studies and Centre for Global Health on July 5 last. The conference addressed some of the priority areas in international development and aimed to improve public awareness about the role of international aid in tackling the complex problems that hold back the development potential of the world’s poorest countries. The two-day conference featured an address by the Columbia University economist, Jeffrey Sachs and Director of the UN Millennium Project as well as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. Other speakers included the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, who addressed the issue of global development and the right to health; Chairman of BP Plc, Peter Sutherland and special representative to Kofi Annan on migration and development as well as Professor Paul Farmer of the Harvard Medical School internationally known for his innovative work on HIV/ AIDs and TB in Haiti and Rwanda.
