ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

2004

• United Nations Forum on Forests: Was Anyone Listening?
• The time of truth for the United Nations Forum on Forests

2003

• The UNFF must acknowledge that plantations are not forests

2002

• Will the Convention on Biological Diversity take on the challenge?

2001

• Improvements in forest-related international processes
• What we would like to see at UNFF

2000

• To UNFF or not to UNFF
• After IFF: deeds, not words!

1999

• IFF: enough is enough
• Two different IFF intersessionals

Articles:

2004

• United Nations Forum on Forests: Highlights from the sidelines
• Community View from UNFF: Interview with Freddy Molina, ACICAFOC
• Genetically modified trees cause memory loss

2003

• Do you believe in Planted Forests?

2002

• UNFF: Little hope for forest peoples and forest biodiversity in this Forum

1999

• The Intergovernmental Forum on Forests: a foresters' forum

1998

• International Expert Consultation
• Comments on the IPF's proposals for action on tree plantations
• Plantations and the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests

1997

• Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF) 

STATEMENTS AND SIDE EVENTS

• NGO opening statement to the UNFF 5 - May 2005

• UN Forest Fiasco - A regular Global Forest Coalition Newsletter on UNFF5 - Issue 1, 16 May 2005

• Demand to the United Nations Forum on Forests: Ban Genetically Engineered Trees
  Geneva, Switzerland - 10 May 2004

• Declaration on plantations to UNFF by the Latin American Network against Tree Monocultures
  Geneva, May 2003 (click here for French and Portuguese versions)

• NGO inputs to the first formal session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), 11-22 June 200. FPP, FERN, WRM, Forests Monitor, June 7, 2001

• Planting Problems: Trees, Carbon, Money, People and Power Organized by WRM and Friends of the Earth International - New York, 4 February 2000

• NGO statement of opposition to the proposed liberalization of the forest products sector
  May 1999

• NGO and IPO statement at IFF-3 - Geneva, 11 May 1999

• Statement of the World Rainforest Movement for the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests meeting  - New York, 20 February 1997

• Social aspects of plantations development: the rights and welfare of plantations workers Joint statement by the WRM and the IUF to the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests at its third session in Geneva, 9-20 September 1996.

REPORTS OF THE FORUM

• Briefing note by the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, FERN and the Forest Peoples Programme - 4th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. 3 – 14 May 2004

• UNFF FIRST SUBSTANTIVE MEETING - 11-22 June  2001 -  United Nations Secretariat Building - New York 

• The IPF and IFF Proposals for Action - Main Actors and Degree of Actions. The Secretariat of the United Nations Forum on Forests, August 2002

• Report on the 8-Country Initiative - An International Expert meeting to discuss "Shaping the programme of work for the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF)"  Bonn, 27 November - 1 December 2000
  by Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)

• Report of the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests on its first session - New York, 1-3 October 1997

• Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests on its fourth session. IPF Proposals for action - New York, 11-21 February 1997

• Earth Summit / Forest Principles - United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) 
  Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992.

MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION OF IPF PROPOSALS FOR ACTION

• The top ten proposals for action
  NGO/IPO document disseminated at UNFF 1. New York, June 2001

• Keeping the Promise? A Review by NGOs and IPOs of the Implementation of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Forests "Proposals for Action" in Select Countries

• Practitioner´s guide to implementation of IPF proposals for action

• Open petition for the UN Forum on Forests. GLOBAL BAN ON GM-TREES

ACTION ALERT 2003

• Letter to the UNFF - NGO and IPO concerns regarding the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF)

• Earth Summit / Forest Principles - Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente (UNCED). Río de Janeiro, Brasil, 3-14 de Junio de 1992.

• Agenda 21 / Combating deforestation

• The NGO Alternative Treaty on Forests - (Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992)

LINKS

The official UNFF web page:
http://www.un.org/esa/forests/index.html

IPF/IFF Process (1995-2000)
http://www.un.org/esa/forests/ipf_iff.html

Agenda 21
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/agenda21toc.htm

Global Forest Policy Project
http://www.forestpolicy.org/