Fifteenth NAM Summit opens in Sharm el-Sheikh

The General Assembly endorsed a broad reform agenda that included development, human rights and collective security. For NAM, the outcome reflected long-running calls to strengthen multilateral...

Cuba hosted leaders amid debates about unilateral force, occupation and unequal development. The summit reaffirmed NAM’s core principles and tried to define a practical role for the movement in a...

The summit declaration restated sovereign equality, non-intervention and self-determination while addressing Palestine, disarmament and economic development. Its broad consensus also masked...

The declaration affirmed indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination, culture, land and resources. Its adoption followed decades of organizing by Indigenous peoples and support from many...

The conference addressed the financial crisis, development finance, debt and the stalled reform of international financial institutions. These issues echoed NAM’s demand that developing countries have...

The final document addressed global economic governance, Palestine, disarmament, racism and the right to development. It criticized the unequal effects of financial and trade systems but relied on...

The review conference met amid debates over nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the unequal status of nuclear-armed states. NAM members argued that disarmament obligations applied to nuclear...

The outcome included a plan for disarmament and a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Implementation proved difficult, illustrating the gap between...

The meeting marked the movement’s fiftieth anniversary and renewed calls for solidarity, South-South cooperation and reform of global governance. It revisited Bandung and Belgrade as living...

Delegations returned to the city where the movement’s first summit took place in 1961. The commemorative meeting assessed a movement born from anti-colonial struggles as it confronted continuing...