Citizens for Global Solutions Hosts G20 Policy Press Conferences

Date: September 23, 2009, 8 AM to 5 PM
Location: Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, 107 Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, PA,
2nd Floor, Room: Symphony A

The G-20 Summit was held in Pittsburgh to promote international cooperation between the governments of industrial and emerging-market countries to support growth and development across the globe. Network for Responsible Global Policy, a Citizens for Global Solutions project, hosted a press conference the day before the G20 began covering critical issues relevant to the G-20 including development, green economy, human trafficking and genocide prevention. Citizens for Global Solutions seeks to engage and activate society to create more discussion and attention for issues of international priority with the goal of causing international leaders to take notice and act.

Organizations That Presented Speakers

Bread for the World
David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World: "We want to remind world leaders that the most important indicator of economic recovery should be what happens to hungry and poor people," said Rev. Beckmann. "Many families are struggling to put food on the table in our own country, and 200 million additional people around the world have been driven into hunger in the wake of the world economic crisis - 90 million of them in 2009 alone."
Galen Carey, Director of Government Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
Steve Colecchi, Director of the Office of International Justice and Peace, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Steve Gutow, President, Jewish Council on Public Affairs
Bernice Powell Jackson, North American President, World Council of Churches
Bill Shaw, former President, National Baptist Convention

Make Poverty History Canada
Amitabh Behar, Exec. Director, National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS) and Asia Co-Convener, Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), India
Sharon Burrow, President, ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) and President, ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions).
Gorgui Sow, Coordinator, Africa Network Campaign on Education for All (ANCEFA) and board member, Global Campaign for Education,
Privilege Hang Andu, Program Officer, Debt and Public Resource Monitoring , Jubilee Zambia and Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection in Lusaka, Zambia.
Citizens for Global Solutions Don Kraus, CEO, Citizens for Global Solutions

Social Watch
Amitabh Behar, Executive Director of the National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS), Pune, India, National Convener of the Wada Na Todo Abhiyaan (WNTA) anti-poverty campaign and Co-Convener of the National Social Watch Coalition (India)
Iara Pietricovsky de Oliveira, Member of the Colegio de Gestao (Governing Board) of the Instituto de Estudios Socieconomicos, Brasilia, Brasil, co-founder of the Articulacao Latinoamericana Cultura-Politica (Latin American Culture and Policy Alliance) and member of the Social Watch International Coordinating Committee
Tanya Dawkins, director of the Global-Local Links Project (Miami) and convener of Social Watch USA
Bhumika Muchhala, Policy Analist, Finance and Development Program, Third World Network
John Foster (moderator), policy analyst and member of Social Watch Canada

The Project to End Human Trafficking and Carlow University
Dr. Mary Burke, Executive Director, Project to End Human Trafficking
Marco Gemignani, Assistant Professor, Duquesne University

Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition,
Save Darfur Coalition
Rabbi Steve Gutow, Executive Director, Jewish Council for Public Affairs-Pittsburgh, PA.
David Rosenberg, Coordinator, Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition- Pittsburgh, PA.
Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Senior Fellow for Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative, Brookings Institute
Sean P. Brooks, Policy Associate, Save Darfur Coalition
Suliman Giddo, Executive Director, Darfur Peace and Development Organization