Conference on Disarmament opens in Geneva with an urgent appeal to stop it from sinking
On 24 January, the first session of the UN Conference on Disarmament in 2012 opened in Geneva with an urgent call from the UN Secretary-General to Member States to “support the immediate commencement of negotiations in the Conference on agreed disarmament issues” and to avoid the Conference from sinking any (...)
[More...]Women Entrepreneurship and Innovation
From 16-18 January 2012, the fourth session of the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enterprise Development Policies and Capacity-building in Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) was held in Geneva. Participants discussed entrepreneurship development policies to support the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises, as well as job creation and poverty reduction (...)
[More...]Newly elected ECOSOC President envisages ECOSOC at the heart of Rio+20 and a post-2015 development framework
Miloš Koterec, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the United Nations in New York, has been elected 68th President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
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Call for participation to the first African Local Summit
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Civil society calls for an overhaul of the rules guiding the relations between WHO and NGOs
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Revised Draft Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights: Call for Comments by 3 February 2012
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Joint NGO Briefing Series draws attention to the 56th session of CSW
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Call for entries: International Short Film Competition “1 of 7 billion”
