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The Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) would like to wish you a Happy and Peaceful New Year 2010. Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday. We would like to thank you for visiting our website social.un.org during the past year and posting your comments and your contributions.
Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Indigenous Peoples' Development with Culture and Identity, 12-14 January 2010, United Nations Headquarters, New York. The Meeting will be attended by Permanent Forum members, indigenous experts, States and representatives from UN Agencies and Funds. Representatives of indigenous peoples organizations are all welcome to attend.
International Human Solidarity Day, proclaimed by the General Assembly to take place on 20 December each year. In order to increase awareness of social development issues and the importance of this international day, and in light of the rise of social media as a key means by which people are interconnected, this year we are spreading the word through a Facebook page. We hope that those of you who are currently using Facebook will become fans of the page and spread the word through your networks. Message of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 20 December 2009.
Final Report of the Third Committee on Social Development (A/64/432) is now available online in all official languages.
Photos of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December 2009. The theme this year was “Making the MDGs Inclusive: Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world". The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announces Mr. Stevie Wonder as the new UN Messenger of Peace.
Information Note on NGOs participation at the 48th Session of the Commission for Social Development, which will take place from 3 to 12 February 2010 in New York is now available online.
Overview of the 2009 issue of the Report on the World Social Situation is now available online | English | French | Spanish | Chinese | Arabic | Russian | Full Report is forthcoming.
Sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly: Reports of the Secretary-General prepared by DSPD.
DSPD developed a webpage where you can find all the Reports of the Secretary- General and the Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council on Social Development. UN Reports UN Resolutions For more UN Reports and Resolutions, please visit the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library website.
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Video of the Opening of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December 2009. The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announces Mr. Stevie Wonder as the new UN Messenger of Peace [48 minutes].
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Commission for Social Development Forty-Eighth Session, 3-12 February 2010 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Ninth Session, 19-30 April 2010 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
7-18 December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15)
20 December 2009 International Human Solidarity Day
12-14 January 2010 EGM on Indigenous Peoples' Development with Culture and Identity
24-29 January 2010 The Hague International Model United Nations Youth Network
3-12 February 2010 Forty-Eighth Session of the Commission for Social Development
19-30 April 2010 Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
