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THE WEEK AHEAD AT THE UNITED
NATIONS:
--------------------------------- Sign the petition for a fair climate agreement at the Copenhagen conference if you have not done so yet! http://www.sealthedeal2009.org Saturday, 26 September Brussels: Millennium Film Festival (till 29 September). http://www.festivalmillenium.org/index_eng.html Copenhagen: “Word Wide Views on Global Warming”, a global citizen consultation on climate policy supported by the UNDP. http://www.wwviews.org New York: Ministerial meeting of the Alliance of Civilization Group of Friends. -Ministerial working session on the sixtieth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions –– Ensuring respect for international humanitarian law in a changing environment and the role of the United Nations. -Mini-Summit on CARICOM. -UN-ASEAN meeting. The Hague: Dutch celebrities in action for Development. http://www.ontwikkelingssamenwerking.nu/programma/?a_cid=3 Sunday, 27 September World Tourism Day [WTO] http://www.world-tourism.org/wtd/ World Heart Day [WHO] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_heart_day/en/index.html Monday, 28
September -EU Troika-type meeting- between EU and Palestinian Authority. -Improving the quality of education for Roma. http://ec.europa.eu/roma -European Parliament - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety COP15 - UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (7-19 December 2009). -High Level
Conference:
Spring Alliance
conference "Putting People & the Planet First: EU
leadership for a social & green strategy post 2010".
http://www.springalliance.eu/images/programme.pdf
Tuesday, 29
September Wednesday, 30 September Brussels: -EU Commission Communication - EU-Latin America: Global Players in Partnership. http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/la/index_en.htm -European Parliament - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality: Impact of the financial crisis on gender equality: Exchange of views with Osnat Lubrani, Director UNIFEM Brussels Office. -European Parliament - Committee on Foreign Affairs: Discussion with Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, on the outcome of the Ministerial Week at the UN General Assembly and on the Commission Communication on a new Agenda for EU relations with Latin America. -European Parliament - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Presentation of the reports to the Council and European Council on the EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy and on the implementation of the strategy and action plan to combat terrorism by the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove. New York: -Security Council - expected to adopt a resolution on women, peace and security. -Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction) - open meeting as a part of the comprehensive review of the status of implementation of resolution 1540 (till 2 October). http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N04/328/43/PDF/N0432843.pdf?OpenElement Oslo: "Chad - Domestic and Regional Challenges" - Seminar with Victor Angelo the UN SG Special Representative. http://english.nupi.no Strasbourg: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Thursday, 1 October Vietnam assumes the monthly rotating Presidency of the Security Council International Day of Older Persons Brussels: -European Parliament - Subcommittee on Security and Defence: Non proliferation issues - Exchange of views with Ambassador Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) -European Parliament - Subcommittee on Human Rights - Public hearing on Human Rights in Sri Lanka. Geneva: EU3+3 meeting with Iran Göteborg: Informal Meeting of Finance Ministers (till 2 October). The Hague: Informal meeting of EU Ministers for the Interior and Europol. Friday, 2 October International Day of Non-Violence Brussels: - press briefing on the new 2009 Human Development Report: “Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development”. The report is under strict embargo until 5 October 2009. Venue: UN House – 10.00. -Donor meeting on the DIS (Détachement Intégré de Sécurité) project of Chad. -EC-UN meeting on the Food Facility. - European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) - Meet the humanitarian aid experts based permanently in crisis zones across the globe. And beyond: Other dates to pin 3 October Brussels: European Job day. Istanbul: 2009 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (till 6 October). http://www.imf.org/external/am/2009/schedule.htm 5 October World Habitat Day http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=564 Launch the 2009 Global Report on Human Settlements: “Planning Sustainable Cities”. World Teachers’ Day Launch of the 2009 Human Development Report: “Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development”. Brussels: -European Celebration of World Habitat Day. Venue: European Parliament. Opening session, roundtables. Press conference on the launch the 2009 Global Report on Human Settlements. Exhibition till 8 October 2009. Registration info@unhabitat.be -“The curse of resources and challenges for state capacity building in the conflict prone Great Lakes Region: What role international and national actors could and should play”. Organizers: Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Hanns Seidel Foundation. Registration by 1 October 2009 to ziegler@eukas.eu -Special meeting of EU farm ministers to discuss milk crisis. Geneva: ITU Telecom World 2009. http://www.itu.int/WORLD2009 6 October Stockholm: EU-Brazil Summit. 7 October Brussels: European Parliament – Plenary Session (till 8 October). 8 October: World Sight Day [WHO] Brussels: “Dialogue and Mediation as European Union Tools to Address and Prevent Conflict”. Organizers: The Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation and the Folke Bernadotte Academy. Venue: Council of the European Union . www.madariaga.org/programmes/preventing-conflict/conflict-prevention-in-practise or www.folkebernadotteacademy.org 9 October World Post Day Brussels: -EU – Mediterranean - Gulf Renewable Energy Conference. http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/energy/events/renewable_energy_conference_2009/index_en.htm Luxembourg: Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council. 10 October World Mental Health Day 12 October
Brussels: -Roundtable
‘Towards Basel III? Regulating the
banking sector after the crisis’.
Organizers: Friends of Europe,
Foundation for European Progressive
Studies (FEPS), the Initiative for
Policy Dialogue, the Financial Times
and Europe's World.
http://friendsofeurope.org/events
Brussels: - “Towards Global EU Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings”: EU Ministerial Conference. Venue: Palais d’Egmont. Contact: counter-trafficking-vienna@iom.int Strasbourg: European Parliament – Plenary session (till 22 October). 20 October Luxembourg: EU ECOFIN Council 21 October Brussels: 5th Annual Brussels Climate Change Conference. http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=81433847-06c4-4050-aa01-da3d35abee18 Stockholm: European Development Days (EDD) (till 24 October) http://www.eudevdays.eu 23 October Launch of the Information Economy UNCTAD Report 2009 24 October United Nations Day World Development Information Day Disarmament Week 26 October Luxembourg: General Affairs and External Relations Council 27 October World Day for Audiovisual Heritage [UNESCO] 29 October Brussels: European Council
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