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UN Calendar of Events - 2008
25-26 March: "United Nations Meets
Web 2.0 - New Media, New Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets"
31 March-6 April:
Act! Speak! Build! Week, UN Habitat's international, student-initiated
week of advocacy. The week is dedicated to empowering young people
ages 5 to 25
2-5 April: XX IAVE World Conference - The 20th
International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) Conference
will be held in Panama
16-18 April: VIII Info poverty World
Conference will be held simultaneously at the UN Headquarters
in New York, at the Politecnico in Milan, and in other areas
connected by videoconference
17 -20 April: European Model UN 2008
- The European Model United Nations is organized by students
from the United Nations Student Association of the University
of Maastricht
During the meeting,
a Special Session on Youth will be convened at the invitation
of the President of Maastricht University
25-28 April: Global Youth Service Day, an annual
global celebration of young volunteers engaged in community improvement
projects
27-30 April:
Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting will be hosted by the Government
of Sri Lanka
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
5 June: World Environment Day "Kick
the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy"
10-11 June: UNGA High-Level Meeting on
HIV/AIDS
17-21 June: Tunza
International Children's Conference on the Environment, Stavanger,
Norway
15-21 July: European International Model
United Nations, "Striving for Sustainable Globalization",
The Hague, The Netherlands
3-8 August: XVII International AIDS Conference
(AIDS 2008), Mexico City, Mexico;
Key coordinator: The Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA)
12 August: International
Youth Day, youth action on climate change
10-21 August: 4th World Youth Congress,
Quebec City
19-22 August: 3rd International Young
Professionals Summit (IYPS), Manchester, UK
3-5 September: 61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference,
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, commemorating the 60th anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
15-16 September: 2008 Global Youth Enterprise
Conference, Washington, DC
24-27 September: YES Azerbaijan 2008,
4th global Youth Employment Summit the Republic of Azerbaijan
through the Ministry of Youth and Sport in partnership with the
Youth Employment Summit (YES)
12-16 November: People to People International
Global Youth Forum, Denver, Colorado, USA, for young people ages
13 - 18
31 March-2 April
2009: World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development,
UNESCO, Bonn, Germany
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