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Returning users: Login for iCSO database. | Login for CSONet event registration.News Highlights
- General Assembly elects John William Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda as President of sixty-eighth session
- Committee on NGOs adopts draft report for consideration by ECOSOC
- NGO Committee, for Third Time in History, Recommends Special Consultative Status to Gay Organization
- Committee on NGOs, by Historic Vote, Approves Openly Lesbian Medical Organization for Special Consultative Status
- General Assembly reviews efforts to combat human trafficking
- Final Report of High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda to be released on 31 May
- UN convenes meeting on role of technology and innovation for sustainable development
- Call for nominations - 2013 United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights
- Stronger joint action of UN, international financial institutions urged at development forum
- UN forum endorses measures to improve sustainable forest management
- General Assembly, in special debate, aims to boost interaction between UN and G20
- "Do One Thing to support Cultural Diversity and Inclusion"
Events
- 17-19 June: Fourth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
- 18 June: 25 September Special Event on the MDGs - Informal Dialogue with NGOs
- 26 June: Thematic debate on Entrepreneurship for Development
- 1-25 July: Substantive Session, Economic and Social Council
- 1-4 July: AMR: Science, technology and innovation (STI) and culture for sustainable development and the MDGs
- 8 July: GA Thematic debate on Inequality
- 15 July: Informal Interactive Hearings on Migration and Development
- 12-15 August: Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, 4th session
- 23 September: High-Level Meeting on Disability
- 25 September: Special event to follow up on efforts on MDGs
- 26 September: High-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament
- 3-4 October: High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
