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International Youth Day
12 August, 2014
International Youth Day is commemorated every year on 12 August. The Focal Point on Youth selects a theme for the day with input from youth organizations and members of the UN Inter-Agency Network in Youth development. It also organizes a commemoration of the Day at United Nations Headquarters in Ne...

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International Day of the World's Indigenous People
09 August, 2014
As the International Day falls on a Saturday, the Day will be observed at UN Headquarters on Friday 8 August 2014 in the ECOSOC Chamber from 3pm to 6pm. It will be organized by the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in cooperation with the NGO Committee on the Int...

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Fourth Session on global geospatial information
06 - 08 August, 2014
The Fourth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) will be held from 6-8 August 2014 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The Fourth Session of UN-GGIM will bring together senior executives from national geospatial...

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Workshop for the validation of the Toolkit on Disability for Africa
05 - 07 August, 2014
he Technical Cooperation Unit (TCU) of UN DESA’s Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) will organize a workshop for the validation of the Toolkit on Disability for Africa, taking place in Addis Ababa on 5 -7 August.

The overall objective of the workshop is to validate the Toolki...

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Workshop on Gender Statistics for countries from the Pacific region
04 - 06 August, 2014
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), is organizing a workshop on Gender Statistics for countries from the Pacific region. The workshop will take place in Nadi, Fiji, from 4 to 6 August 2014. This is one of a series of wo...

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Fifth session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing
04 - 08 August, 2014
The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF), established a year ago in follow-up to Rio+20, will hold its fifth and final session in New York from 4 to 8 August. During the session, the Committee will finalize its report proposing options on an effective ...

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Workshop on the Measurement of Household Production for Satellite Accounts and the 36th Conference of the International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR)
29 July, 2014
UN DESA’s Statistics Division is extending fellowships to selected statisticians from National Statistical Offices in developing countries to participate in a workshop on the Measurement of Household Production for Satellite Accounts, organized by IATUR in collaboration with Statistics Finland.
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Google+ Hangout – Samoa 2014: Empowering Youth for Sustainable Islands
24 July, 2014
The global community is now only two months away from the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, which offers a once in a decade opportunity to focus the world’s attention on a group of countries that remain a special case for sustainable development. Final preparations ar...

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Organizational session for 2014-15 programme of work
21 - 22 July, 2014
Chair: H.E. Mr. Martin Sajdik, President of ECOSOC, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Austria

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High-level Panel Discussion on “Sustainable Development and the World Drug Problem: Challenges and Opportunities
15 July, 2014

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