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Updated DPI/NGO Spring 2016 Briefings Calendar
DPI/ NGO Briefings
Thursday, 17 March 2016
"Women & Girls: From Adversity to Hope"
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"Happiness and Gender Equality in the SDGs"
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Thursday, 24 March 2016
"Mentoring Girls and Boys for Sustainable Communities"
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Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Special event on “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality” (onthe occasion of the International Women’s Day 2016) (organized by theUnited Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women(UN-Women)).

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Venue: Trusteeship Council[All are invited. For further information, please contact Ms. Cynthia Gale, UNWomen (e-mail cynthia.gale@unwomen.org )].
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Friday, 11 March 2016
Dialogue with Member States on the rule of law at the international level on“Strengthening the Rule of Law through the United Nations Security Council”(co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Australia and Japan and the Ruleof Law Unit, Executive Office of the Secretary-General) (on behalf of theUnited Nations Rule of Law Coordination and Resource Group).
Time: 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 7[All are invited. For further information, please contact the Rule of Law Unit inthe Executive Office of the Secretary-General (Ms. Adriana de la Espriella (email delaespriella@un.org ; tel. 1 (212) 963-2962); or Ms. Lilibeth Benitez (email benitez@un.org ; tel. 1 (917) 367-2935))].
Monday, 14 March 2016
Forum on “Leave No Woman’s Issues Behind” (co-organized by thePermanent Mission of Grenada and My Sisters’ Health Watch Team)
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 12[All are invited. For further information, please contact the Permanent Missionof Grenada (e-mail grenada@un.int ; tel. 1 (212) 599-0301); or My Sister’s
Health Watch Team (e-mail unescocforge@gmail.com ; tel. 1 (516) 943-3174).]
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Call for action to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation, Child Marriage andSon Preference by 2030 (Organized by UNFPA)
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Venue: United Nations General Assembly Hall
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Tuesday, 17 March 2016
Round table on the Second Anniversary of the adoption of the General
Assembly resolution entitled “Territorial integrity of Ukraine”(A/RES/68/262) (organized by the Permanent Mission of Ukraine).
Time: 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Trusteeship Council Chamber[All are invited. For further information, please contact Mr. Volodymyr
Mialkovskyi, Permanent Mission of Ukraine (e-mail mialkovskyi@gmail.com ;tel. 1 (212) 759-7003).]
Friday, 18 March 2016
FAO, IFAD, WFP and UN Women will co-host a Side-event at the 60th Sessionof the UN Commission on the Status of Women on “Accelerating Rural
Women’s Economic Empowerment”.
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 8[For further information please contact the FAO Liaison Office in New York:
lon-registry@un.org , telephone: (212) 963-6036].
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Special meeting on inequality in the context of Goal-10 of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development. (Chaired by the President of the Council(Republic of Korea)).
Venue: ECOSOC
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
[All are invited to attend. Members of the Council are requested tocommunicate the composition of their delegation to the Secretariat as early aspossible. Due to limited seating, Member States that are not members of theCouncil, as well as the United Nations system and other organizations, arerequested to inform the Acting Secretary of the Council of their prospective
participation in the Forum (c/o e-mail tanoy@un.org no later than noon on
Monday, 28 March 2016, in order to be provided a seat in the plenary room.
All others will be seated on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more details on
the special meeting on inequality, please contact Mr. Philipp Erfurth, Office for
ECOSOC Support and Coordination, Department of Economic and Social Affairs(e-mail erfurth@un.org ; tel. 1 (917) 367-4938). Additional information is alsoavailable on the website of the Council click here].
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Partnership Forum on the theme “From commitments to results: Leveraging
partnerships for the 2030 Agenda”. (Chaired by the President of the Council(Republic of Korea)).
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Venue: ECOSOC[All are invited to attend. Members of the Council are requested tocommunicate the composition of their delegation to the Secretariat as early aspossible. Due to limited seating, Member States that are not members of theCouncil, as well as the United Nations system and other organizations, arerequested to inform the Acting Secretary of the Council of their participation inthe Forum (c/o e-mail olvida@un.org ) no later than noon on Tuesday, 29March 2016, in order to be provided a seat in the Chamber. All others will beseated on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more details on the Partnership
Forum, please contact Mr. Ajit Yogasundram, Office for ECOSOC Support andCoordination, Department of Economic and Social Affairs No. 2016/46 Journalof the United Nations Saturday, 5 March 2016 10 (e-mailyogasundram@un.org ; tel. 1 (212) 963-5737). Additional information is alsoavailable on the website of the Council click here].
30 March - 1 April 2016At the request of the UN DESA Statistics Division, UN-NGLS is facilitating anapplication process to identify representatives from civil societyorganizations, academia and the private sector to attend the Third Meetingof the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal
Indicators, taking place in Mexico City, Mexico from 30 March - 1 April 2016.
Information about this meeting is available here.
21 April 2016
High-level Thematic Debate on Achieving the Implementation of theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Organized by OPGA).
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Indigenous Fellowship Programme English language programme (Organizedby UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner).
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E-Consultation for SDG 5: Gender Equality! Youth Forum CSW | World We
Want 2030.
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Upcoming UN Meetings and Events
8-11 March
47th Session of the Statistical Commission to agree on SDG indicators,
14-24 March
60th Commission on the Status of Women,
16-18 March
Habitat III Regional Meeting on Europe
New Publications“State of the World Population 2015”

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“Universal Access to Reproductive health”

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NGO CORNER Please note that the events announced here are notorganized by the United Nations and do not necessarily reflect theofficial opinions of the UN.
Friday, 11 March 2016
UNA-NY Screening the Issues- Mustang-Celebrating International Women’sDay
Join us for this special screening in honour of International Women’s Day
2016 followed by a Q+A with UNFPA Technical Specialist SATVIKA
CHALASANI.
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Monday, 14 March 2016
The Episcopal Diocese of New York Task Force against Human Trafficking ispleased to sponsor “Unbind and Let Go: Mobilizing Faith Communities toCombat Human Trafficking”.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2016
ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS (AFICS/NY)Invites You to a Conversation with Martti Ahtisaari and James Bays of AlJazeera on the United Nations at 70: Accomplishments and Challenges.
Time: 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 3
For registration: telephone: 212-963-2943 Email: afics@un.org
February 17 – April 20
UNA NY – The World Institute | Winter 2016
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28th March
Earth Hour
NGO Spotlight
International Women’s Peace GroupInternational Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) is a non-governmentalorganization recently associated with DPI NGO Relations. The primary goal ofIWPG is to achieve and promote for world peace. The organization
implements its work by collaborating closely with global female leaders andwomen’s organizations by providing help to places that are desperately inneed of it. IWPG has adopted the framework of motherly love because they
believe that a mother’s love is the backbone of our society.
IWPG carries out various projects and campaigns to disseminate theirmessage. Their War Cessation Movement seeks to ensure that no moreyoung lives are lost and that everyone’s right to happiness is ensured. With
each campaign, they have a host of global events such as networking,volunteering, education and female youth participation to promote the mainideas of the organisation.
To learn more about IWPG, visit http://internationalwomenspeacegroup.org/

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