OPENING CEREMONY October 1: Opening Session of the Assembly
Adib Nehme, SW Lebanon; Roberto Bissio, SW Coordinator; Assad Diyab: Minister of Social Affairs; Ziad Abdel Samad: SW Lebanon; Izzat Abdul Hadi, SW Palestina; Kamel Mohanna: Lebanese Group of NGOs
Panel on the Social and Economic Impact of Financial and Trade International Institutions: Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing; Christian Declerc, UNDP, Lebanon; Samir Makdissi, former Minister of Finances and President of the American University of Beirut; Iara Pietricovsky, SW Brasil; Leonor M. Briones, SW Philippines
Panel on the Social and Economic Impact of Financial and Trade International Institutions
Launch of the Arab Social Watch Report by Adib Nehme
Members of Nacional SW Platforms and other guests
Ziad Abdel Samad, SW Lebanon, Regional Arab Coordinator and organizar of the General Assembly