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20 April Durban Review Conference [Geneva, 20-24 April]

13 March International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade [observed on 25 March]
5 March International Women's Day [observed on 8 March]

27January International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

18 December Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC)
11 December First Anniversary of the Bombing of the United Nations Offices in Algiers
05 December Human Rights Day [Observed on 10 December]
04 December The Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide 

24 November International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women [Observed on 25 November]
21 November World AIDS Day [Observed on 1 December]

23 October United Nations Day [Observed on 24 October]
13 October Stand Up and Take Action Against Poverty and for the MDGs [17-19 October]
13 October World Food Day [observed on 16 October]
Secretary-General's message
1 October Second International Day of Non-Violence [observed on 2 October]

23 September General Debate of the 63rd Session of the General Assembly [23 September - 1 October]
11 September First International Day of Democracy [observed on 15 September]
2 September UN60 Ways

28 August

International Day of Peace [observed on 21 September]

18 August

Fifth Anniversary of the Bombing of the UN Offices in Baghdad. [observed on 19 August]

14 August

Millennium Development Goals -
A Gateway to the UN System's Work on the MDGs

8 August

International Day of the World's Indigenous People
[observed on 9 August]


23 July

The United Nations and the Olympic Truce

17 July

Millennium Development Goals High-level Event at UN Headquarters, New York, 25 September 2008


16 June

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought [observed on 17 June]

05 June

2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS [observed on 10-11 June]

05 June

Committee on Contributions [a subsidiary organ of the GA]

04 June

Election of the President of General Assembly for the 63rd session


28 May

60 Years of United Nations Peacekeeping, 1948 - 2008

21 May

United Nations Observances

13 May

The Secretary-General's High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis

9 May

Launch of the Appeal for Myanmar

1 May

Global Food Crisis


30 April

World Press Freedom Day [observed 3 May]

30 April

International Year of Languages [will be observed throughout the year]

25 April

Human Rights Council election to be held 21 May 2008

21 April

Reform at the United Nations


27 March

Ten Stories the World Should Know More About

24 March

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade [observed on 25 March]

19 March

International Year of Sanitation

19 March

World Water Day 2008 [observed on 22 March]

19 March

United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

14 March

60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

5 March

United Nations Board of Auditors

5 March

United Nations Panel of External Auditors

4 March

International Women's Day [observed on 8 March]


25 February

Launch by the Secretary-General of the Campaign to End Violence Against Women


25 January

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2008
[observed on 28 January]


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