International Day of Peace [observed on 21 September]
Fifth Anniversary of the Bombing of the UN Offices in Baghdad. [observed on 19 August]
Millennium Development Goals - A Gateway to the UN System's Work on the MDGs
International Day of the World's Indigenous People [observed on 9 August]
The United Nations and the Olympic Truce
Millennium Development Goals High-level Event at UN Headquarters, New York, 25 September 2008
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought [observed on 17 June]
2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS [observed on 10-11 June]
Committee on Contributions [a subsidiary organ of the GA]
Election of the President of General Assembly for the 63rd session
60 Years of United Nations Peacekeeping, 1948 - 2008
United Nations Observances
The Secretary-General's High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis
Launch of the Appeal for Myanmar
Global Food Crisis
World Press Freedom Day [observed 3 May]
International Year of Languages [will be observed throughout the year]
Human Rights Council election to be held 21 May 2008
Reform at the United Nations
Ten Stories the World Should Know More About
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade [observed on 25 March]
International Year of Sanitation
World Water Day 2008 [observed on 22 March]
United Nations Peacebuilding Commission
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations Board of Auditors
United Nations Panel of External Auditors
International Women's Day [observed on 8 March]
Launch by the Secretary-General of the Campaign to End Violence Against Women
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2008 [observed on 28 January]
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