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Memory at risk: the importance of genocide archives for justice, remembrance, research and education
worldwide/virtualBeyond the long shadow: engaging with difficult histories is a live discussion series organized by the United Nations Department of Global Communications. The series is organized by the Outreach Programme on the transatlantic slave trade and slavery, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, and the Outreach Programme on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the United
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Generation Equality Forum [registration deadline]
worldwide/virtualThe Generation Equality Forum will be the largest global feminist gathering since 1995: governments, international organizations, civil society, the private sector and young people will come together to drive gender equality forward. You wish to interact with the participants, ask a question, follow a conference: 90 events involving 500 panelists will be offered to you.
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World Drug Report 2021: Africa & the Americas
worldwide/virtualThe Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC) together with the UNODC Civil Society Unit will be holding two webinars to present and discuss the World Drug Report 2021, which was launched on 25th June. The yearly publication is the most comprehensive source of facts and knowledge on drugs and the world drug market, sourced straight from evidence-based studies and data compiled
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Covid, Conflict & Climate: Food Insecurity Today and the Way Forward
worldwide/virtualFood insecurity is at the core of the many challenges facing the world today. It overlaps with the “three Cs” shaping international politics in the new decade—Covid, conflict, and climate—in complex and profound ways. This event aims to discuss the report, Peace Through Food: Ending the Hunger-Instability Nexus, which is the outcome of a working group
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Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2021: Demanding Justice Beyond Rhetoric
worldwide/virtualPolicy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have exacerbated rather than reduced global inequalities. The most visible example of this is the global disparity in the distribution of vaccines. So far more than 60 percent of people in high-income countries have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but less than
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Reducing Ageism: Synergies in Research and Policy
worldwide/virtualJoin us on September 29th, 9:00 am GVA for "Reducing Ageism: Synergies in Research and Policy," an event organized by the Euro Ageism Project. Register here! September is World Alzheimer's Month and the theme for the 2021 campaign is Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer's. It's all about the power of knowledge. Campaign resources for anyone wishing
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Second UN Global Sustainable Transport Conference
worldwide/virtualThe Second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference will take place from 14 to 16 October 2021, in Beijing, China. It will bring together representatives of Governments, UN system and other international organizations, the private sector, civil society and other stakeholders to discuss opportunities, challenges and solutions towards achieving sustainable transport worldwide and indicate a way
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UNESCO-UNFCCC webinar: How Climate Change Knowledge Can Become Action
worldwide/virtualTune into the first season of UNESCO-UNFCCC's Webinar Series, Climate Change Education for Social Transformation: On the Road to COP27, which is dedicated to the goal of greening every education policy and curriculum to be climate ready. Taking place on the last Tuesday of every month, each episode will explore the critical role of climate
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Protecting Education from Attack: A Call for Improving Data Monitoring and Policy Response
worldwide/virtualVirtual side event to the ECOSOC High-Level Political Forum The event will be entirely virtual, with simultaneous translation provided in English and French. Please register here, by Tuesday, 5 July, to participate. The event will also be livestreamed on UN Web TV. Background Attacks on education have harrowing effects, ranging from tragic deaths on account
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CACCI Policy Advocacy webinar on ESG in South-East Asia and Green-Digital Transformation
worldwide/virtualCACCI invites you to participate in the CACCI Policy Advocacy webinar to be held on Wednesday, December 14at 3:00PM Taipei Time. The 50-minute session will be moderated by Mangesh Lal Shrestha, YEGAP President. The two relevant policy issues to be discussed are: (1) ESG in South-East Asia: Policy Considerations for Improving Performance Across Sustainability and
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