2018
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70ème anniversaire des Citoyens Du Monde: Colloque (1) « Quel Avenir pour la Démocratie mondiale ? »
Date: Tuesday, 21 November 2018
Time: 9:30 AM - 8:30 PM
Venue: Maison de l'UNESCO
Colloque (2) « L’Éducation à la Citoyenneté mondiale »
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70ème anniversaire des Citoyens Du Monde: Colloque (1) « Quel Avenir pour la Démocratie mondiale ? »
Date: Monday, 19 November 2018
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Venue: l’Assemblée Nationale
Colloque (1) « Quel Avenir pour la Démocratie mondiale ? »
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70ème anniversaire des Citoyens Du Monde: Célébration de la Déclaration du 19 novembre 1948
Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Time: 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Venue: Commémoration Place du Trocadéro
Célébration de la Déclaration du 19 novembre 1948 sur le Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, place du Trocadero Lecture du texte de l’interpellation à l’ONU. Prises de paroles.
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Examining the Role of Conventional Arms Control in Preventing Conflicts and Building Peace
Date: Thursday, 25 September 2018
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Venue: Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security & Development 777 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor New York, NY 10017
The International Peace Institute (IPI) and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) are pleased to invite you to an evening panel discussion on the role of conventional arms control in preventing conflicts and building peace.
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Stand Up for SDG 16+
Date: Friday, 28 September 2018
Time: 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue: Conference Room 11, United Nations HQ (NY)
In the same spirit of the joint 2018 HLPF launch, this side event will continue to shine a spotlight on SDG 16+ and build momentum to support the achievement of SDG 16+ as an end goal itself and as an enabler for other SDGs. The side event will provide a platform for Member States, private sector, civil society, and youth to highlight how they are supporting the achievement of SDG 16+.
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Women and International Peace: A Discussion on Rights, Representation, Resources, and the Way Forward
Date: Thursday, 27 September 2018
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Trygve Lie Center, International Peace Institute 777 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor New York, NY 10017
The International Peace Institute in partnership with the Government of Sweden are pleased to invite you to a Global Leader Series discussion with H.E. Margot Wallström, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden. The event will take place at IPI on Thursday, September 27, 2018, from 2:30pm to 4:00pm.
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A Conversation with H.E. Mr. George Hanneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia
Date: Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Time: 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Venue: Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security & Development (NY)
The International Peace Institute (IPI), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), would like to invite you to a conversation with Liberian President, H.E. Mr. George Manneh Weah, as part of its Global Leader Series. Following President Weah’s presentation, there will be a discussion moderated by IPI’s president, Terje Rød-Larsen, with Sweden’s Permanent Representative to the UN and Chair of the Liberia Configuration of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, H.E. Mr. Olof Skoog, and the Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa of UNDP, Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, on Liberia’s peacebuilding objectives and development priorities.
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A Conversation with Dr. Asle Toje, Former Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Current Member of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee
Date: Monday, 17 September 2018
Time: 1:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue: Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security & Development (NY)
The International Peace Institute (IPI) in cooperation with the Norwegian Nobel Institute is pleased to invite you to a discussion on “The Nobel Peace Prize: Past, Present, and Future” featuring Dr. Asle Toje, a member of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee on Monday, September 17th, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm.
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Broader Perspectives on the UN of Today and Tomorrow: An interactive discussion with the Team of External Advisors to the President of the General Assembly
Date: Monday, 10 September 2018
Time: 9:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Venue: International Peace Institute
The International Peace Institute and the Office of the President of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly are pleased to invite you to an interactive discussion with members from the Team of External Advisors to the President of the General Assembly. The event will take place at IPI on Monday, September 10, 2018, from 9:15am to 12:45pm.
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Post Conference NGO-led Forum - Networking Together to Address Global Issues (In support of the 67th UN DPI/NGO Conference)
Date: Friday, 24 August 2018
Time: 10 00 AM - 5 00 PM
Venue:
LIU Brooklyn
1 University Plaza
(Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts Humanities Building Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
This NGO-led forum will build on the outcomes of the 67th UN DPI/NGO Conference to adopt concrete strategies, platforms, approaches and technologies to:
• strategically structure to more effectively work within theUnited Nations framework to implement the SDGs;
• efficiently partner with the UN and Member States to implement and communicate the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development;
• identify strategic plans, timelines and establish metrics for implementation and evaluation of Agenda 2030; and
• facilitate networking and collaboration on multilateralism within civil society to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The 67th UN DPI/NGO Conference: We the Peoples… Together Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems
Date: Wednesday, 22 August - Thursday, 23 August 2018
Time: 9 00 AM - 6 00 PM
Venue: United Nations HQ (New York)
The 67th UN DPI/NGO Conference will focus on the value of multilateralism to identify and implement global solutions for global problems, to discuss concrete ways for the UN, in partnership with NGOs and civil society at large, to take the fundamental vision of these people-centered mandate forward, and to examine the repositioned UN Development Systems as a platform to work and advocate in closer partnership.
Thematic Roundtables:
Women and Girls Mobilizing
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70
Doing the Math: A Repositioned UN Development System
Youth: Today’s Leaders
Shared Planet, Shared Prosperity
Towards UN-75: Communicating the Case for Multilateralism
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Insight Series: A Discussion on Migration
Date: Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Venue:
Library Room
Library 2nd floor Reading Room L-248
Since the New York Declaration for Refuges and Migrants was adopted in September 2016, the United Nations and its Member States have been spearheading efforts towards a Global Compact for Migration. The text of the Compact was finalized on the 13 July 2018. But what does the text mean, and what has the 18 months of dialogue revealed? Join us at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library as we bring together migrants, humanitarian workers, Member States, UN agencies and advocates to discuss migration, the implementation of the Compact, and its potential impacts. A selection of recent books on the topic will be displayed at the event.
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9th Working Session: Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing
Date: Monday, 23 July - Thursday, 26 July 2018
Time: 10 00 AM - 6 00 PM
Venue: Conference Room 4, United Nations HQ (New York)
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Supreme Audit Institution Leadership and Stakeholder Meeting
Date: Thursday, 19 July - Friday, 20 July 2018
Time: 10 00 AM - 6 00 PM
Venue: Conference Room 2, United Nations HQ (New York)
The meeting will provide an opportunity to take stock of SAIs’ engagement with the SDGs. Participants will reflect on the experience and lessons learned from auditing preparedness for SDG implementation, and present relevant audit findings, recommendations and reports from different regions. Discussions also aim to facilitate mutual understanding and dialogue between SAIs and external stakeholders regarding SDG implementation and the role of SAIs, and identify stakeholders’ expectations on the contributions of SAIs to the 2030 Agenda.
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Interactive Briefing on The Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT)
The Group of Friends United Against Human Trafficking and Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT)
Date: Friday, 29 June 2018
Time: 1 15 PM - 2 45 PM
Venue: Conference Room 11, United Nations HQ (New York)
Following an update on the work of ICAT, including the recent ICAT Principals Level Meeting pursuant to GA Resolution 72/195 (OP10-11), interventions from the floor will be welcomed.
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Launch Event: Human Rights-Compliant Responses to the Threat Posed by Foreign Fighters
Date: Thursday, 28 June 2018
Time: 1 15 PM - 2 45 PM
Venue: Conference Room 11, United Nations HQ (New York)
The Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force Working Group on Promoting and Protecting Human Rights and the Rule of Law While Countering Terrorism, chaired by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, has drafted a guidance document on Human Rights-Compliant Responses to the Threat Posed by Foreign Fighters.
The document provides concrete guidance to States in their efforts to implement Security Council Resolutions 2178 and 2396 in compliance with international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international refugee law, as intended by the Security Council, and in a manner consistent with the comprehensive approach agreed by the General Assembly in its review of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The guidance document will be launched at this event.
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Presentation of the Joint Study on the Contribution of Transitional Justice to the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes
Date: Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Time: 10 00 AM - 12 00 PM
Venue:
Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations
633 3rd Avenue, Floor 29
New York, NY, 10017
Refer A/HRC/37/65 (2018), "Joint study of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence and the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide"
Presentations by Adama Dieng (United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide) and Pablo de Greiff (Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence).
**Please note that the deadline to RSVP is Monday, 25 June 2018.
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Panel Discussion: The Plight and Rights of Children Born of War
Office of the SRSG on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Office of the SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict, UN Permanent Mission of Argentina and the Government of the United Kingdom
Date: Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Time: 2 30 - 5 30 PM
Venue: Conference Room 2, United Nations Secretariat Building (New York)
The event will include reflections on how the lessons of history can be applied to contemporary conflict and post-conflict societies, in which women and children released from armed and violent extremist groups struggle to reintegrate into their families and communities. It will consider strategies such as enlisting religious and traditional leaders to help change harmful social norms and dispel the perception that these children and their mothers were complicit in the crimes committed by their captors. (The event will be conducted in English).
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Civil Society Meeting with Chairs of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Date: Thursday, 31 May 2018
Time: 4 30 - 6 PM
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 9
As requested by the Chairs of the UN human rights treaty bodies, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has extended an invitation for a consultation with civil society representatives during their thirtieth meeting (scheduled to take place in New York from 29 May to 1 June 2018).
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The Primacy of Politics and the Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations
International Peace Institute (IPI)
Date: Thursday, 24 May 2018
Time: 1 - 2 45 PM
Venue:
Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security & Development
International Peace Institute
777 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor
New York, NY, 10017
The International Peace Institute (IPI) and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations are pleased to invite you to a policy forum entitled “The Primacy of Politics and the Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations.” This policy forum will explore the perceived and actual tensions between the pursuit of political solutions and the protection of civilians in peacekeeping contexts. The event will follow the 2018 Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians organized by Poland (#United4Civilians).
This event is the first as part of IPI’s recently launched Protection of Civilians Project. While the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) stressed the “primacy of politics,” UN peacekeeping missions are often mandated to protect civilians in challenging environments where the peace process has stalled and political solutions seem out of reach. In these contexts, protecting local populations from physical violence may appear to be an operational imperative for the mission and a priority over engagement in protracted and uncertain political processes.
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Discussion: Consolidating and strengthening the UN Secretary-General selection process
Deputy Permanent Representative of Estonia (as a member of the Accountability, Coherence, Transparency Group) and Deputy Permanent Representative of Guatemala (in cooperation with representatives of 1 for 7 Billion and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office)
Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Time: 12 30 - 3 PM
Venue:
Estonian House
243 East 34th Street
New York, NY, 10016
Participants will discuss strategies and timelines to effectively consolidate the gains achieved for a more open, transparent and inclusive selection process in selecting next Secretary-Generals. Discussion points are as follows:
» What is a sound strategy to ensure the new elements will be consolidated for future selections in a resolution?
» What are the most crucial elements to be preserved?
» What is the best means to address each of these issues?
» Which of them require in-depth discussion?
» What is a good time frame to address them?
» Does application of the new process to an incumbent UNSG seeking re-selection require in depth discussion and if so how?
» Should some of the ethical issues be addressed or included in a Code of Conduct?
**Please note that the deadline to RSVP is Monday, 21 May 2018.
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Inclusion in Process & Policy: Civil Society Participation & Partnership in Advancing SDG 16+
Permanent Missions of the Czech Republic, Georgia and Timor-Leste as members of the 16+ Forum
Date: Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Time: 1 15 - 2 30 PM
Venue: United Nations Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 6
On the occasion of the ECOSOC Special Meeting (23 May), the critical role of civil society in SDG 16+ will be discussed. Speakers will address national experiences in advancing inclusive policies and processes, including challenges, successes and solutions to building trust and strengthening systematic engagement and partnership. Both government and civil society perspectives will be offered, highlighting successes, challenges and solutions to breaking down barriers and building trust. Highlighting the importance of regular engagement and partnership between civil society and governments at all levels, the 16+ Forum maintains focus on SDG 16+as a catalytic component of an indivisible and interdependent 2030 Agenda.
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United Nations Forum on the Question of Palestine: “70 Years after 1948 – Lessons to Achieve a Sustainable Peace”
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)
Date: Thursday, 17 May - Friday, 18 May 2018
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Trusteeship Council Chamber
To mark the anniversary of the 1948 War and subsequent uprooting and mass displacement of Palestinians, known in Arabic as Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) will convene the two-day Forum “70 Years after 1948 – Lessons to Achieve a Sustainable Peace”. The Forum is open to the public and will also be streamed live through UN webcast.
**Please note that the deadline to RSVP is Sunday, 13 May 2018.
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Resilient Social Contracts and Sustaining Peace
International Peace Institute (IPI)
Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Time: 1 - 2 45 PM
Venue:
Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security & Development
International Peace Institute
777 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor
New York, NY, 10017
The International Peace Institute (IPI), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the University of Witwatersrand, Forging Resilient Social Contracts, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations are pleased to invite you to a policy forum on the role of the social contract in sustaining peace.
Participants at this event will discuss how social contracts manifest themselves in and adapt to different contexts, transcending from what are often unsustainable, ephemeral elite bargains into more inclusive ones with durable arrangements for sustaining peace. The findings of the research project “Forging Resilient National Social Contracts” will be presented and case studies on South Sudan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Tunisia will be featured. These case studies explore social contracting within contexts of conflict and fragility, highlighting the mechanisms through which agreements are forged that support prevention and sustaining peace.
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Civil society meeting with Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Date: Friday, 11 May 2018
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 6
OHCHR has organized a final civil society meeting with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, before the end of his term. Admittance to this meeting will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law
DPI NGO Relations
Date: Thursday, 3 May 2018
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 1
The United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in cooperation with the 19 Member States composing the Group of Friends for the Protection of Journalists in New York invites you to the event in commemoration of "World Press Freedom Day 2018." The theme will be "Keeping Power in Check: the Protection of Journalists and Media Workers."
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The Changing Landscape of Armed Groups: Doing DDR in New Contexts
UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and World Bank Group
Date: Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 8
A panel discussion on 1 May 2018 will seek to delve into the changing landscape of armed groups and how DDR practitioners are adapting to these developments with flexible context-specific approaches. As peace operations grapple with situations of heightened political and security challenges, DDR practitioners have had to adjust to complex dynamics (e.g. no peace agreement or inclusive political process, transnational criminal networks, rising number of armed non-state actors, and regional armed group dynamics). Practitioners have to navigate through unclear political struggles and deal with legal constraints in contexts where violent extremism is a further challenge. On the ground, they have in some cases combined community-based programming with weapons management, and are engaging both combatants and youth-at-risk of recruitment while providing technical support to political processes at different levels. DDR efforts remain critical across the peace continuum as one of few non-military means in the UN tool box to directly engage members of armed groups.
The session seeks to build on a panel discussion held in Washington during the World Bank Fragility Forum in March 2018 on new approaches in DDR and will focus in particular on how they have been developed and reinforced through key partnerships.
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High Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace
Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2018 – Wednesday, 25 April 2018
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York)
The President of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Miroslav Lajčák identified peacebuilding and sustaining peace as a key priority. Therefore he will convene a High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace on 24 and 25 April 2018 to assess efforts undertaken and opportunities to strengthen the United Nations’ work on peacebuilding and sustaining peace.
The High-level meeting will open on Tuesday, 24 April, with an opening segment and contributions from high-level speakers with experience on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. It will then be followed by high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly, where Member States will be able to deliver their statements. During the two-day event, four interactive dialogues will be held in parallel to the high-level plenary meeting,
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ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FfD) Follow-Up
Date: Monday, 23 April 2018 – Thursday, 26 April 2018
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York)
As decided by Member States in the intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations of the 2017 FfD Forum, the third FfD Forum will be convened by the President of ECOSOC from 23 to 26 April 2018 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The event will bring together ministers, high-level officials from ministries of finance, foreign affairs and development cooperation, Executive Directors of the World Bank and IMF, as well as senior officials from the UN system, including the major institutional stakeholders, and other international organizations. Civil society organizations, the business sector and local authorities will also be represented.
The ECOSOC Bureau has adopted the overall framework of the tentative programme for the 2018 FfD Forum. The Bureau will decide on the further details of the programme in the course of the preparations for the event. Building on the success of the 2017 FfD Forum, the programme of the 2018 FfD Forum includes similar building blocks. Certain refinements and new elements are introduced with the view to attracting a larger number of ministers, representatives of international financial institutions and other stakeholders, as well as to increasing the interactivity of the discussions. The 2018 FfD Forum will begin with the ministerial segment, which, on 23 April, will feature the Special High-Level Meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. It will provide an opportunity for the heads of international trade and financial institutions as well as their intergovernmental bodies to interact with their United Nations counterparts on issues of common interest in the follow-up to the FfD outcomes.
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NGO Briefing: Migration's Contributions to Prosperity, Development and International Unity
DPI NGO Relations
Date: Thursday, 19 April 2018
Time: 11 AM – 12 45 PM
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 2
**Please note that the deadline to RSVP is Tuesday, 17 April 2018.
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Nexus Conference 2018: Water, Food, Energy and Climate
The Water Institute, University of North Carolina
Date: Monday, 16 April 2018 – Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Venue:
Friday Conference Center at UNC
100 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-1020
The “Nexus” approach is the one that focuses on overlaps across sectors while respecting sectoral expertise in order to make better plans by understanding interactions (Stockholm Environment Institute, 2017). The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce our intention to reconvene our Nexus conference addressing Water-Energy-Food and Climate in spring of 2018.
The conference will facilitate space for the development of collaborative work and focus on the Science-policy interface; partnerships; solutions; review of Sustainable Development Goal commitments (2018 and for the Heads of State review in 2019); sharing of tools, indicators and methodologies; and the identification of gaps. This will be the second Nexus Conference that The Water Institute has organized.
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A Dialogue on SDGs and Human Rights
OHCHR, in partnership with UNESCO and UNICEF
Date: Monday, 16 April 2018
Time: 1 15 - 2 45 PM
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 11
Co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Bulgaria, Ecuador, Mongolia, Norway and South Africa, the event will highlight the international community’s commitment, as set in SDG 4, to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” and the Education 2030 Framework for Action, and its interlinkages with the human “right of everyone to education.”
The right to education encompasses, inter alia, the right to universal, free, compulsory primary education and equitable secondary education for all children, for the full development of human personality and human dignity. Inclusive and equitable education opportunities and treatment means quality education opportunities and treatment for all, without discrimination.
**Please note that the deadline to RSVP is Thursday, 12 April 2018.
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People, Power, and Sustaining Peace: The Role of Grassroots Nonviolent Movements in Building a Just Peace
The United States Institute for Peace (USIP), Peace Direct and the International Peace Institute (IPI)
Date: Thursday, 12 April 2018
Time: 1 - 2 45 PM
Venue:
Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security & Development
International Peace Institute
777 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor
Rooted in communities and relying on collective action, nonviolent action or civil resistance is a powerful tool for ordinary people to address injustice and advance a just and inclusive, or positive, peace. In a study of 323 major violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006, researchers found that nonviolent campaigns were twice as successful at achieving their goals as armed insurgencies. The most important variable in determining the success of these campaigns was the size and diversity of participation—or the level of inclusiveness of the campaign. It is thus no surprise that countries that have experienced nonviolent “people power” are much less likely to return to civil war than those in which conflict was violent.
In anticipation of the UN High-Level Meeting on Sustaining Peace, this event seeks to amplify grassroots voices and deepen our understanding of the intersection between local peacebuilding and nonviolent action strategies and how these approaches can be implemented to advance the sustaining peace agenda. Participants will also discuss how the UN can better support grassroots activists and peacebuilders involved in building coalitions and organizing broad-based movements to promote positive peace.
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UNCA Book Launch - A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century
UN Correspondents Association
Date: Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Time: 4 PM
Venue: UN Correspondents Association Room S-310 (UN Secretariat Building, 3rd floor)
About the book:
Global challenges such as war, poverty, inequality, climate change and environmental destruction are overwhelming nation-states and today’s international institutions. Following the emergence of democracy in the ancient Greek city states and its expansion to the modern territorial states in the 18th century, the next step is now imminent. Achieving a peaceful, just, and sustainable world requires a leap forward to a world organization of the third generation. The creation of a democratic world parliament is the centerpiece of this project. This book sheds light on the history, contemporary relevance and future implementation of this monumental idea. The authors’ longstanding commitment to building a democratic world order guided the extensive research that went into the book’s preparation.
About the speaker:
Andreas Bummel is co-founder and director of Democracy Without Borders and of the international Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly that was launched in 2007. He has dedicated his career to the promotion of global democracy and world federalism. Since 1998 he has been a Council member of the World Federalist Movement, an international NGO that promotes the rule of law, world peace, federalism and democracy. He was trained in business administration, studied law and worked at a management consultancy firm. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1976.
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51st Session of the Commission on Population and Development
Date: Monday, 9 April 2018 - Friday, 13 April 2018
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York)
As an ECOSOC functional commission, the Commission on Population and Development plays the primary role in monitoring, reviewing and assessing the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development at the national, regional and global levels, identifying reasons for success and failure, and advising the Council thereon. The special theme of the session is “Sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration.”
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NGO Briefing: The Value of Peacekeeping: Stories from the Field
DPI NGO Relations
Date: Thursday, 5 April 2018
Time: 3 – 4 30 PM
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 4
**Please note that the deadline to RSVP is Tuesday, 3 April 2018 by 3 PM.
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NGO Briefing: Remember Slavery: Triumphs and Struggles for Freedom and Equality
DPI NGO Relations
Date: Thursday, 29 March 2018
Time: 3 – 4 30 PM
Venue: UN Headquarters (New York), Conference Room 2
Organized in observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March). Discussions will highlight the personal stories and gains of people of African descent in the movement towards freedom and equality.
**Please note that the deadline to RSVP is Tuesday, 27 March 2018 by 3 PM.
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Mobilizing Africa’s Youth to Build a Continent Beyond Aid
DPI NGO Relations and Youth Bridge Foundation Delegation
Date: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Time: 3 30 – 5 30 PM
Venue:
DPI NGO Resource Center, 801 UN Plaza
New York, NY 10027
As the global aid architecture shrinks, Mobilizing YOUTH presents an opportunity for creating an effective platform for participation in the political economy, building resilience of young females, and addressing the root causes of many of the key challenges of gender inequality and rural-urban gaps. Inclusion to tap potential of female youth and address key empowerment challenges of rural female youth in Africa is urgent. Youth Bridge Foundation (YBF) will share experiences and dialogue for practical solutions. Issues to be addressed include:
1. Empowerment challenges of rural female youth
2. Effective ways to mobilize and harness the potentials of the African female youth.
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