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Conferences
and General Assembly Special Sessions
 Millennium Development Goals High-level Event
(New York,
25 September 2008)
2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS
(New York, 10-11 June 2008)
Human Rights Council election
(New York, 21 May 2008)
7th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
(New York, 21 April - 2 May 2008)
UNCTAD XII (Accra, Ghana 20-25 April 2008)
7th session of the Human Rights Council (Geneva 3-28 March 2008)
Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) (Doha, Qatar, second half of 2008) - More information on the FfD website
Past Conferences and Special Sessions (1994-2007)
UN
Calendar of Events
Provisional Winter/Spring 2008 NGO Briefing and Events Calendar February – June 2008
Calendar
of Conferences and Meetings
Calendar of Conferences and Meetings of the United Nations for the
Biennium 2006-2007[General Assembly Document A/AC.172/2006/2]
Exhibitions
at UN Headquarters
Daily Focus
UN Journal
- Programme of daily meetings
Latest Media Alert
UN Press Releases
Webcasts from the United Nations
UN Daily Briefing
UN Daily News |
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Events
at Headquarters
62nd Session of the General Assembly
61st Session of the General Assembly
Security Council
(monthly programme
of work)
Special
Observances
60 Years of United Nations Peacekeeping, 1948 - 2008
International Year of Languages 2008
International Year of Sanitation 2008
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Year of Languages 2008
International Year of the Potato 2008
International Year of Planet Earth 2008
International Year of Sanitation 2008
International Decade for Action: Water for Life (2005-2015)
United
Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012)
International
Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of
the World (2001-2010)
Second
International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2001-2010)
Decade
to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa
(2001-2010)
Background Information
Key conference outcomes in the economic and
social fields
UN Briefing Papers: The World Conferences
Fact Sheet: UN Conferences --What Have They Accomplished?
Conferences
and Observances
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Special Days
World Population Day
(11 July)
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
(26 June)
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
(24 June)
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
(17 June)
World Environment Day
(5 June)
World Press Freedom Day
(3 May)
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
(25 March)
World Water Day
(22 March)
International Women's Day
(8 March)
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
(27 January)
Human Rights Day (10 December)
World AIDS Day (1 December)
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November)
Disarmament Week
(24-30 October)
World Development Information Day (24 October)
United Nations Day (24 October)
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October)
World Food Day (16 October)
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (10 October)
World Mental Health Day
(10 October)
World Post Day (9 October)
World Teachers’ Day (5 October)
World Space Week (4-10 October)
Internationalorld Day of Non-Violence (2 October)
World Habitat Day (1 October)
International Day of Older Persons (1 October)
World Maritime Day
(27 September)
International Day of Peace
(21 September)
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
(16 September)
International Literacy Day
(8 September)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (23 August)
Fourth anniversary of the attack on the UN in Baghdad
(19 August)
International Youth Day
(12 August)
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People (9 August)
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