Last month Oxfam's International Executive Director Winnie Byanyima was in Washington for the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, and then in New York for one of the drafting sessions ahead of the Financing for Development (FFD) Conference in Addis Ababa taking place in July.
In 1989, he was part of the UNICEF delegation to the drafting sessions of the Convention.
Through advocacy for children in international forums over the past months and years, particularly through active participation in the drafting sessions ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development this past July, UNICEF Member States have made tremendous efforts to ensure that children are at the heart of the goals and its financing.
Jim Puckett, the executive director of the Basel Action Network in Seattle, came to Hong Kong for the final drafting session this week.
At the committee's legislative drafting session on Tuesday, Representative Paul Kanjorski, the Pennsylvania Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, added the requirement of registration by offshore funds.
Two weeks ago, the administration found itself in a feud with the Republican-controlled leadership of the House Financial Services committee, which had scheduled a drafting session over a bill that was criticized by the Treasury Department.
He talked about Richard Tisei, a candidate for Congress in Mass., who stands a good chance of becoming the first openly gay Republican politician to win a congressional seat and he mentioned that Log Cabin's materials sat right next to pamphlets by a right-wing group at the recent Republican party platform drafting session.
Mr. Baucus also delayed his first public drafting session until after the Fourth of July to work on lowering the bill's cost.
That tension was clear at a legislative drafting session, where Republicans who opposed the legislation sought to scale it back sharply, while also decrying the high pay at many troubled institutions.
