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On 24 September, both Mr. Jose Viera and Mr. Mohammed Loutfy presented on behalf of the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities presented at the SDG Summit CSO Forum.
On 25 September, Mr. Jose Viera, Chief Executive Officer, World Blind Union…
"This International Day recognizes the importance of sign languages for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and fulfilling its core promise of leaving no one behind. It also offers an opportunity to support and protect the linguistic…
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UNITED NATIONS, 13 September 2019 – The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is launching the fourth edition of the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The launch comes on the date the General Assembly adopted the United…
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The SDG Action Zone is a space inside the United Nations grounds, during the 74th Session of the General Assembly, that will seek to promote and accelerate transformative SDG action in innovative ways. Various events and exhibits, programmed…
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On 23 December 1994, the United Nations General Assembly decided, in its resolution 49/214, that the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People shall be observed on 9 August every year. The date marks the first meeting, in 1982, of…
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On 8 July, at the 27th plenary meeting of the ECOSOC: Integration Segment 2019, the Council elected eight members to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues nominated by Indigenous peoples’ organizations for a 3-year term beginning 1 January 2020.…
Acting unanimously today, the Security Council adopted its first-ever resolution calling upon Member States and parties to armed conflict to protect persons with disabilities in conflict situations and to ensure they have access to justice, basic…
The 2019 International Day of Cooperatives will be celebrated at the United Nations on Monday 8th July 2019 (the actual day falls on the first Saturday of July, and this year it is on 6 July).
The theme for this year’s celebration is COOPS…
“When we fight to secure those rights, we move our world closer to upholding the core values and principles of the United Nations Charter”, he explained. “When we remove policies or biases or obstacles to opportunity for persons with disabilities,…
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The report of the 18th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2019) is now available in the six official United Nations languages.
The report was presented by the Chair of the Forum to the Economic and Social Council Management…
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), in collaboration with AFRIKAM Centre of the Istanbul Aydin University, organised a training workshop on the role of cooperatives in sustainable development with particular focus…
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The fourth annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) took place on 14–15 May 2019 in UN Headquarters, New York. The theme of the STI Forum 2019 was “STI for ensuring…