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June
2011
World Environment Day
Worldwide, 5 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. WED celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.
> More about World Environment Day
> Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change
ITC-ILO Gender Campus: Training of gender audit facilitators
Turin, Italy, 6 - 10 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO)
This five-day course draws on the extensive experience the
ILO has developed in-house in a series of
groundbreaking gender audits involving staff and
constituents from virtually every region in the
world.
> More
UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS
UN Headquarters, New York, USA, 8 - 10 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: United Nations
The High-Level Meeting on AIDS took place 10 years after the historic 2001 United Nations Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), and the 2006 signing of the Political Declaration where UN Member States committed to moving towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
More than 30 Heads of State, Government and Vice Presidents attended the meeting. On the final day of the High-Level Meeting on AIDS, UN Member States adopted a resolution which will guide country responses to HIV over the next five years:
At the Meeting, UN Women called attention to women and girls, who continue to live with a greater share of the infection:
> UN Women Side Events at the 2011 UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on AIDS
World Day Against Child Labour
Worldwide, 12 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: United Nations
World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. WED celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.
> More about World Day Against Child Labour
> Womenwatch: The Girl Child
World Refugee Day
Worldwide, 20 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
This year's World Refugee Day on June 20 has as its theme, "Home," in recognition of the plight of more than 40 million uprooted people around the world. Around 10 million of them are refugees of special concern to UNHCR.
> More about World Refugee Day
> UNHCR: Refugee Women
Online training course for e-tutors of the interregional course "Measurement of violence against women through statistical surveys"
Online, 20 June - 11 July 2011
Host / Sponsor: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
The online training course will be carried out in English from 20 June to 11 July 2011. This 30 hours course is offered without any cost to select a group of experts from the five regions of the world (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and West Asia) who could be hired for a two-months period to tutor groups of participants to the e-course "Measurement of violence against women through statistical surveys" that will be implemented from 8 August to 3 October 2011. The applicants should have specific interest and/or experience in the area of violence against women (VAW) as well as knowledge on the production, use and analysis of gender indicators and VAW statistics.
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Democracy and renewal in the Arab World: roundtable at UNESCO in support of transition to democracy
Paris, France, 21 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: UNESCO
About 20 internationally renowned personalities, experts on or from the Arab World¹, will participate in a round table on 21 June at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (Room X from 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.) on the theme “Democracy and Renewal in the Arab World: UNESCO in Support of Transitions to Democracy”.
> Read more
International Widows' Day
Worldwide, 23 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: United Nations
In December 2010, the General Assembly declared 23 June as International Widow’s Day (resolution 65/189). The General Assembly decided, with effect from 2011, to observe International Widows’ Day on 23 June each year, and called upon Member States, the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates, to give special attention to the situation of widows and their children.
On the occasion of the first International Widows’ Day, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet and First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba of the Gabonese Republic cordially invite you to a conference moderated by renowned journalist Christiane Amanpour to discuss widows — their plight, their rights and their future.
The conference will include the following panels:
- Social and economic challenges faced by widows
- Widows, partnerships and the Millennium Development Goals
With the participation of:
- Ban Soon-taek
- Cherie Blair
- Amir Dossal
- Lord Raj Loomba
The conference will be webcast live at 10:00am EDT on 23 June 2011 on UN webcast: http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/
» Secretary-General’s Message
» Website | UN Women event page
» Conference Programme
» Resolution 65/189 adopted by the General Assembly (PDF)
» Backgrounder: International Widow's Day (PDF)
United Nations Public Service Day
Worldwide, 23 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: United Nations
The UN Public Service Day intends to celebrate the value and virtue of public service to the community; highlight the contribution of public service in the development process; recognize the work of public servants, and encourage young people to pursue careers in the public sector.
> More about United Nations Public Service Day
A Dialogue on Women in Agriculture: Where to after SOFA?
Rome, Italy, 27 June 2011
Host / Sponsor: FAO, Ambassador of the United States of America to the UN Agencies in Rome, Ambassador of the Republic of Kenya to Italy and Permanent Representative to FAO, IFAD, and WFP
In light of the FAO Conference's gender focus and the 2010-2011 State
of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report, Women in Agriculture: Closing
the Gender Gap for Development, this event will provide an opportunity to
share information and discuss efforts, initiatives, and next steps to improve
the status of women and girls within and beyond this critical sector:
Monday, June 27, 2011
FAO, Austria Room (C-237)
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The event will be webcast live (12:30pm CET on 27 June 2011).
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