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Climate Change Requires Long-Term Global Response, Secretary-General of UN Tells Security Council

UNESCO to host UN DPI Conference honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - by Susan J. Zipp

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM UN AGENCIES AROUND THE WORLD

"The World Needs a Global Culture of Human Rights" Q&A with UN media and Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda, President of Soka Gakkai International

United Nations Data Access System (UN-data) - UNDESA's Statistics Division has just launched a new internet based data service (UN-data) that will provide an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community. Subsequent stages of the development of the UN data access system will extend to UN system data as well as to data of national statistical offices - providing the user with a simple single-entry point to global statistics.

46th session of the Commission for Social Development,"Promoting full
employment and decent work for all" and strategies to promote productive employment and decent work opportunities for youth; Youth Employment Network as a peer exchange mechanism at the national, regional and international levels.

52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women

UN-SG Ban Ki-Moon condemns
anti-Islamic film:
"Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility," Ban said.

Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda - The Center for Global Development describes how to effectively initiate investments that will give adolescent girls in developing countries a full and equal chance for rewarding lives and livelihoods.

Youth connect to address Iraqi refugee crisis in Jordan; Global Youth Connect, the Jordanian Community Development Center, and the Jordan Red Crescent have launched an Iraqi Refugee Solidarity Initiative.
This joint initiative will bring together 30 youth (ages 18-30) from Iraq, Jordan and the U.S. with the goal of better understanding the root causes of the Iraqi refugee crisis in Jordan, placing it within a larger regional and global context, and identifying concrete ways in which they can take steps towards addressing the
Situation.

Middle East Youth Initiative launches new publication "Inclusion: Meeting the 100 Million Youth Challenge" - Assesses the challenges and opportunities facing youth in the Middle East through country case studies and personal stories.


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