| DESA News Vol. 12, No. 01 | January 2008 |
New York, 8-10 January
New York, 9 January
Election of the Bureau, New York, 14 January
New York, 16-18 January
High-level symposium of the Development Cooperation Forum, Cairo, 19-20 January
New York, 21-23 January
2008 regular session, New York, 21-30 January
Beijing, 22-24 January
Honolulu, 28-30 January
Nouakchott, 29-31 January
Organizational session of 2008, New York, 5-8 February
46th session, New York, 6-15 February
52nd session, New York, 25 February-7 March
39th session, New York, 26-29 February
Proper sanitation: It’s a seemingly mundane thing that most people in the developed world take for granted. But at least 2.6 billion people – some 41 percent of the global population - do not have access to latrines or any sort of basic sanitation facilities. As a result millions suffer from a wide range of preventable illnesses, such as diarrhoea, which claim thousands of lives each day, primarily young children.
To put the spotlight on this issue the General Assembly declared the year 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. The goal is to raise awareness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal target to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.
For more information: http://www.sanitation2008.org/