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International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) 2012
- Web presence of the IYC
The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, particularly their impact on poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration.
With the theme of "Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World", the Year seeks to encourage the growth and establishment of cooperatives all over the world. It also encourages individuals, communities and governments to recognize the agency of cooperatives in helping to achieve internationally agreed upon development goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals.
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NGO Committee on Migration - Statement 2011
RIO+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
RIO+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012
20 - 22 June 2012 - Rio, Brazil
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Competition: Slogan Proposal for IFHE Campain
The 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family will be celebrated in 2014. On this occasion the UN, family-related NGOs as well as governmental bodies on different levels will focus on the current challenges for families around the world. The IFHE is planning a Campaign to celebrate the occasssion.
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DPI/NGO Conference 2011 in Bonn, Germany
"Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens"
The 64th Annual United Nations Conference of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), will be held in Bonn, Germany, from Saturday, 3rd to Monday, 5th September 2011. This will be the fourth time that the Conference willl take place outside the UN Headquarters in New York.
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Please note: IFHE is member of the Planning Committee and
Please note: IFHE had held a workshop to the theme: "Realising sustainable Lifestyles: Empower Families and Households as sustainable Consumers and Producers"
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Please click here for download the IFHE Postcard Home Economics Empowerment: Education for Sustainable Lifestyle
Please click here for download the Abridgement/Abstract of the Keynote Speech of Dr. Vandana SHIVA
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Women's Empowerment Principles
Equality means Business
The Women's Empwerment Principles are a set of principles for business offering guidance on how to empower women in the workplace,marketplace and the community. They are a result of a collaboration between UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)and the United Nations Global Contract. The development of the principles included an international multi-stakeholder consultation process, which began in March 2009 and culminated in their launch on International Women's Day in March 2010....
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Submitted by: Eileen GALLAGHER LABINER, Main Representative to the United Nations for IFHE
Keynote Speech Dr. Vardana SHIVA - Alternative Nobelprize Winner
Dear Home Economists,
at the 64th Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference "Sustainable Societies - Responsive Citizens" which is taking place in Bonn, Germany, 3 - 5 September 2011 the IFHE Delegates met Dr. Vandana SHIVA, Navdanya International (India) before her keynote speach at the opening ceremony.
Please take you time and listen to her Keynote Speech when she focussed on the significance of Home Economics and demanded a workshop in Home Economics for wall street experts.
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This was a wonderful experience and great success for Home Economics and for the IFHE Delegates!
Many participants are visiting the IFHE Exhibition related to the conference theme!
Tomorrow an IFHE Workshop will be conducted.
A press release and report will follow in the next IFHE Newsletter September 2011.
UN General Assembly - A/RES/65/191
Sixt-fifth Session - Agenda item 28 (b) - 3 March 2011
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/449)]
65/191. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the oucom of the twenty-third spcial session of the General Assembly
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UN Conference on Sustaibable Development
Rio 2012: Making it Happen Volume 2, Issue 3 - Newsletter of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
The Newsletter is produced by the Rio 2012 Secretariat in the Division of Sustainable Development of DESA with input from UN System Offices and other international governmental organizations, Member States and Major Groups from around the world.
Contact us at: uncsd2012@un.org
View full Newsletter at http://www.uncsd2012.org/
Web-site on the Open-ended Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons
A web-site providing information about the newly established Open-ended Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons was created, please click here
Commission for Social Development adopts Resolution
Commission for Social Development adopts resolution on second review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan
During its 49th session, the Commission for Social Development adopted draft resolution E/CN.5/2011/L.3 entitled "Modalities of the second review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing".
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Strengthening International and Regional Frameworks to Protect the Human Rights of Older Persons
As a part of 2011 Founder’s Events, American University Washington College of Law presents an expert panel on "Strengthening International and Regional Frameworks to Protect the Human Rights of Older Persons"
co-sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and United Nations Population Fund. The panel will take place on March 17, 9 – 11.30 am in Washington, DC.
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UN General Assembly - Sixtx-fifth session A/65/L.1
Agenda items 13 and 115
Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields
Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit
Draft resolution referred to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly by the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session
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UN MDG Summit 2010
United Nations MDG Summit, 20 - 22 September 210 - New York
"The MDGs AT10 AND CIVIL SOCIETY"
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World Health Summit 2010
Translation, Transition, Transformation
Brlin, 10 - 13 October 2010
Charité Berlin - Berlin, Germany
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UNITAR - E-Learning Courses
UNITAR ( United Nations Institute for Training and Research)
E-Learning and Networking of a Global Audience and Finance-Sector & Trade Officials
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UN - Human Resources
Galaxy - E-Staffing System
For more information regarding the recruitment process please have a look here
UN - Global Food Crisis
UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe
Information on the Global Food Crisis
regarding UN Entities, UN Conferences & Events, Selected Statements and Speeches of UN Officals etc.
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The Millennium Goals
What are the Millennium Development Goals?
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
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