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Message of the Secretary-General on World Health Day - 7 April 2008

Climate change is sometimes debated as if it affected only the planet, and not the people living on it. This year´s World Health Day is an opportunity to broaden tajor health threat we face as a result of global warming.

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Message of the Secretary-General on the 14^th Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda - 7 April 2008

On this 14th anniversary of the genocide, my thoughts again go out the victims - more than 800,000 innocent people who lost their lives. May they rest in peace.

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United Nations World Youth Report 2007

The World Youth Report 2007 examines the challenges and opportunities existing for the roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world. Distinct from the 2003 and 2005 editions, it provides a regional overview summarizing the major youth development trends in the fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of Action for Youth. The report explores major issues of concern to youth development, including employment, education, health, poverty and violence. At the same time, it highlights youth as a positive force for development and provides recommendations for supporting their essential contributions.

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Gearing up for World AIDS Day 2007

Uniting the world against AIDS

With less than a month to go before this year`s World AIDS Day, events to commenmorate the day are being organized all over the world.

This year, World AIDS Day - that takes place on December 1 - will focus on leadership, the theme set by the World AIDS Campain under the five-year slogan "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise".

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SG/SM/11294

Secretary-General says access to Sanitation - one of the most overlooked human needs - is core issue of human dignity, human rights, on launch of Internatioal Year 2008

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Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity at the start of the 21^st Century. Failure to meet that challenge raises the spectre of unprecedented reversals in human development. The world´s poorest countries and poorest people will bear the brunt.

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Themes for the year 2008:

2008 is the International Year of the Potato, the International Year of Planet Earth, and the International Year of Sanitation.

The lead agency for the International Year of Planet Earth, the GA has designated the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is the lead agency for the International Year of the Potato and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) is the focal point for the International Year of Sanitation.

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Sixty-second session - A/C.3/62/L.9

Third Committee

Agenda item 62 (c)

Social development: follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing

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2007 October 16 - 17

What is Stand Up?

Stand up and Speak Out is the growing movement of people no longer prepared to stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and inequality. Help us to break the world record. So we can break the record of broken promises.

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Follow-up to the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond - Report of the Secretary-General

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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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61^st Session

Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

"The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health"

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Struggle to Confront three Global Challenges - Development, Security, Human Rights - presents new tasks, gives old ones new form, says Secretary-General:

"Together, International Community Has Pushed Some Big Rocks To Top of Mountain, Even If Others Have Slipped from Its Grasp and Rolled Back"

Following is the text of the address by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the General Assembly at the opening of the general debate of the sixty-first session:

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UN Report of Mary MILLER, IFHE Representative UN New York

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Half of the World´s Pregnant Women Still Lack Access to Skilled Care at Childbirth

Midwives and uplic health experts from 20 countries around the world are gathering for the first-ever International forum on "Midwifery in the Community". They aim to raise awareness and generate guidance that will assist in saving the lives or more than 5 million women and over 45 million newborns by 2015...

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"Promote more positive Image of Ageing"

Secretary-General urges in Message for International Day of Older Persons

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Summary - DPI/NGO Briefing

"Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons:

AdvancingUN Global Strategies"

In Observance of the International Day of Older Persons

5 October 2006

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Message of the United Nations Secretary-General Koofi ANNAN on the occasion of the International Day of Families on May 15^th 2006

Report on the World Social Situation 2005

The Inequality Predicament

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Preface

Final Release - UN Report says economic growth in Asia has come at the cost of increased inequality in many countries

Tables and Figures

Report Highlights

Executive Summary

The last meeting held by United Nations Organisations (UNO), UNAIDS, World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) top Excecutives disscused about the pandemic disease (HIV/AIDS) in the world and confirmed that, everyday more than 8,000,000 people die from AIDS and every year another five million (5,000,000) people become infected with the Virus. Since July 2004 only 260,000 new patients have benefited from Anti-ritroviral Vaccine (ARV) therapy in developing countries. Treatment expansion in these countries is moving at snail pace.

From the perspective of a medical/ humanitarian organization working, resource-poor countries are finding it difficult to get aid for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, the global picture is bleak. Are you aware of the up coming NATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAM 2005 that will be held in the US(Washington DC.) and England (London)? This program is to enlighten us about HIV/AIDS and the introduction of newly manufactured drugs (Microbicides) which are used to reduce the transmission of the Deadly Virus and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

The good thing about this program is that everything about it has been made free including your visa and flight ticket (to and fro) United States and London under the strict supervision and Care of the WHO and UNO . Congratulation! This is not an opportunity for you to own an American and London Visa for free but also to get you acquainted with the Global fact that HIV is real and you should Help Spread the Awareness...

Applicants will be given the Anti-Retrovirus Vaccines (ARV) free. It may also interset you to know that if you can give any useful suggestion/Ideas that can lead to the treatment of HIV/AIDS, you will go home with the sum of $100,000 on the day of the conference . And also, The WHO will appoint you as the General Overseaer of HIV/AIDS programmes in Your country. Hence thus, the WHO will take care of your welfare and pay the sum of $250,000 per month.

Send your application Letter to the Organiser of this Programme in person of the United Nations Secretary General, Mr Kofi ANAAN (Chairman) via this Email: unaidsapplication@mail2american.com

Stating the following:

1 Name and

2 Address/Country

3 phone number

It will be our pleasure to have you sugestions, ideas and critics. Ensure to apply alongside with this invitation letter.

"Makes Jobs, Education, Services Available To Those With Disabilities",

says Secretary-General in Message for International Day of Disabled Persons.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan´s message on the International Day of Disabled Persons, to be observed on 3 December:

This year´s International Day of Disabled Persons focuses on the interdependence between disability, human rights and development. Persons with disabilities make up the world´s largest minority group. Thes are disproportionately poor, are more likely to be unemployed, and have higher rates of mortality than the general population. All too often, they do not enjoy the full spectrum of civil, political, social, cultural and economic rights.

For many years, the rights of persons with disabilities were overlooked. More recently, that has been changing, as progress has been made throughout the world in ensuring that people with disabilities can participate in and benefit from development. But much more needs to be done to ensure their full integration. Equal participation requires not only dismantling environmental, social and legal barriers that marginalize persons with disabilities. It also means making jobs, education, health, information and other services just as accessible to them as to everyone else.

In that mission, a great deal hinges on current negotiations on the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities. I support the work of the Ad Hoc Committee and hope the negotiations reach a successful conclusion.

On this observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons, let us remember that societies that neglect the integration of persons with disabilities deprive themselves of the valuable contributions such individuals make. And let us reaffirm our commitment to the equal rights of persons with disabilities, and to their full participation in the economic, social and political lives of their societies.

Submitted by

Renate HENKE, NGO Liaison

United Nations Information Service (UNIS)

Follow-up to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond

United Nations - General Assembly

Sixtieth Session

Third Committee

Agenda item 2

Social development, including questions relating to the world social situationa and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family

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The Secretary-General

Message on World Habitat Day - 3 October 2005

The themeof this year´s World Habitat Day, "The Millenium Development Goals and the City", highlights the importance of managing rapid urbanization and reducing urban poverty.

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UNIS/INF/105                                                          

Vienna, 30 September 2005 (UN Information Service)

United Nations (UN) Marks the International Day of Older Persons on 1^st October 2005

Highlights the Different Impact of Ageing on Women and Men

"Ageing in the new Millenium: Focus on Poverty, Older Women and Development" is this year´s Theme of the International Day of Older Persons

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