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09 April 2014 | Ageing, | Poverty Eradication, | Women, | Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
09 April 2014 | Youth
There can be no talk for social development and empowerment when still an estimated 168 million children are in child labour worldwide, doing work that affects their health and personal development and which deprives them of schooling, their…
07 April 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Women, | Youth
Guatemala’s population is one of the youngest, fastest-growing and least educated in Latin America. More than 2 million children in Guatemala do not attend school. Most of them are indigenous girls living in rural areas. Nearly half of the…
07 April 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Women, | Youth
Guatemala’s population is one of the youngest, fastest-growing and least educated in Latin America. More than 2 million children in Guatemala do not attend school. Most of them are indigenous girls living in rural areas. Nearly half of the…
07 April 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, | Women, | Youth
Guatemala’s population is one of the youngest, fastest-growing and least educated in Latin America. More than 2 million children in Guatemala do not attend school. Most of them are indigenous girls living in rural areas. Nearly half of the…
03 April 2014 | Cooperatives, | Women
Women living in rural areas of Morocco not only face the challenges posed by a male-dominated society, but also have to survive in environments where basic infrastructure is a luxury. Nevertheless, they remain very active, perhaps even more so than…
03 April 2014 | Cooperatives, | Women
Women living in rural areas of Morocco not only face the challenges posed by a male-dominated society, but also have to survive in environments where basic infrastructure is a luxury. Nevertheless, they remain very active, perhaps even more so than…
02 April 2014 | Disabilities
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will hold its eleventh session from 31 March to 11 April at the Palais Wilson in Geneva. During the session the Committee will consider the reports of Azerbaijan, Costa Rica and Sweden on how…
31 March 2014 | Disabilities
World Autism Awareness Day was designated by the General Assembly resolution 62/139 adopted in 2007. The Day raises awareness of autism on all levels of society and encourages participation of Member States, civil society, private and public…
31 March 2014 | Families
The "Families in the Crisis - Finding work-life balance in difficult economic context" conference is a jointly organized event by COFACE and its Greek member organisation, KMOP, in close cooperation with the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of…
31 March 2014 | Disabilities
Persons with disabilities are a huge and largely overlooked labour market segment. Even when employers overcome the fear of the unknown and start looking at abilities rather than disabilities, negative attitudes from co-workers and supervisors is…
31 March 2014 | Families, | Women, | Youth
Financial and infrastructure support for small-scale family farmers is crucial to winning the fight against hunger around the world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on March 5th 2014, urging Governments to create polices…