Intractable Challenges to Global Health, Redefine Relationships with Governments (Reissued from UN Information Officer.) MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 30 August — Broad agreement emerged this afternoon during a round table discussion at the Australia DPI/NGO Conference that non-governmental organizations were uniquely positioned to confront the intractable challenges to global health; but while they increasingly filled gaps around [...]
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Unsealing Papua New Guinea’s fate: creative church approaches to HIV prevention.
Caritas examines the socio-cultural contributors to PNGs greatest development threat. On Tuesday August 31, Caritas Australia’s and our Catholic Church partners from Papua New Guinea will present the workshop Changing community attitudes and behaviours: Church health initiatives in PNG at the 63rd annual UNDPI/NGO conference – Advance Global Health.
CARE calls for gender equity at the UNDPI /NGO Global Health Conference
30 August 2010, Melbourne- CARE Australia is calling for a stronger emphasis on gender equity during the biggest United Nations conference ever to be held in Australia. At the end of the first day of the United Nations DPI / NGO Conference on Advancing Global Health, CARE was disappointed to see that gender equity and [...]
Building bridges across cultures
Nation to Nation Networking is committed to furthering the success of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals through: promoting and funding educational community centers for adolescents in Africa and Latin America; promoting and funding human rights education nationally here in the United States; promoting the worldwide eradication of obstetric fistula; promoting tolerance and understanding across [...]
Dark to Dawn: Being Creative About Depression
Workshop Room 109 Wednesday 1 September 2.30 – 4.00pm Presented by Soka Gakkai Internationl Depression plays a large part in many people’s life experience, both currently and historically. This initiative was created to engage people in dialogue by introducing broad ranging and yet hopeful perspectives with the hope of relieving the suffering associated with depression. [...]
Advances in medicine: a bridge of knowledge, a bridge of future
“The Binaytara Foundation (BTF) advances in medicine: a bridge of knowledge, a bridge of future” conference to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal and in Delhi, India in May 2010. Day 1 of the conference will involve talks on advances in medicine and day 2 will be “Meet the Professor” sessions with medical students, recent MBBS graduates [...]
Millennium Candle Campaign
M.Asad Tahir Jappa: CEO, Anwar Jannat Memorial Foundation, Lahore, Pakistan, Founder, Millennium Candle Campaign I must thank you for your kind attention and giving me the privilege to have shared with you the key features of my dream project – Millennium Candle Campaign. I take this opportunity to share with your good self a success [...]
The Millennium Development Goals Summit 2010
In 2000 all world leaders signed up to achieving eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, but progress on many of these remains seriously off-track. 2010 is a decisive year for international development, with a focus on the United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting on the MDGs – or MDG summit. This summit marks a key [...]
Alcohol harms on the world agenda at United Nations conference, Melbourne
Australia takes opportunity to lead change in global attitudes towards alcohol AER Foundation hosts workshop on the impact of alcohol misuse 1 September, (2:30pm – 4pm), Melbourne 30 August 2010: Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation (AER Foundation) Director Rev. Tim Costello will moderate an expert discussion and workshop aimed at identifying community-driven solutions to alcohol [...]
Tzu Chi Foundation – working towards the MDGs
UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) – 8 very noble goals. Come to find out how Tzu Chi Foundation has been working on these Goals since 1966.
Conference Photos (Snapshot)
