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PrepCom for the UN Conference on the ATT concludes first session

The first Preparatory Committee meeting on the Arms Trade Treaty took place in New York from 12- 23 July. Even though the discussions are still in a preliminary stage, the first PrepCom confirmed that an Arms Trade Treaty will be adopted in the near future.

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Looking back at ECOSOC’s High-level Segment: the AMR and DCF

The annual High-level Segment of the substantive session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) took place from 28 June – 2 July 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York, having a Ministerial Declaration, the establishment of UN Women and a President’s Summary as its outcomes.

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Speakers of Parliament pledge to strengthen oversight role in MDG countdown to 2015

How can parliaments better hold executive branches of government accountable to their MDG commitments in the run up to 2015? This was a central question discussed at the 3rd World Conference of Speakers of Parliament held by the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the United Nations in Geneva from 19-21 July 2010.

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Third session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

AIDS 2010, the XVIII International AIDS Conference

ECOSOC Side Event – New Actors in Development Cooperation and the New Aid Architecture: the Role of Regional Governments and Local Authorities (29 June 2010)

UN Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group holds first meeting

Nominations for NGOs and civil society representatives at MDG+10 summit

ECOSOC Side Event – Development Cooperation to Promote Gender Equality and Achieve the MDGs (30 June 2010)

General Assembly President Issues Summary of Hearings with Civil Society and the Private Sector

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