The site has previously been used by the Royal British Legion to promote the two-minute silence on Armistice Day and by the UN to support World Humanitarian Day.
The Thunderclap site has previously been used by the Royal British Legion to promote the two-minute silence on Armistice Day and by the UN to support World Humanitarian Day.
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The news came as the UN held "Malala Day", in the name of Malala Yousufzai, 15, a Pakistani education campaigner.
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Many liberal Jews still see sectarian day schools as somehow un-American, and the relatively few Conservative and non-denominational day schools have seen a drop in enrolment since the 2008 financial crisis.
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The peer was patron of the Universal Peace Federation, hosting the UN International Women's Day for several years and human rights conferences.
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Later in the day, the UN website went down for maintenance and was unavailable to those wishing to view updates about the vote.
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Ministers and officials will be coming to Brussels fresh from an informal two-day session at UN climate convention headquarters in Bonn, where they've heard United Nations Environment Programme chief scientist Joseph Alcamo outline a few key issues.
The data, released by the UN children's charity and UN population fund on the international day calling for an end to FMG, showed that the younger generation was less vulnerable to female circumcision in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where it is usually practised.
The suggested resolution followed an announcement by the US and France earlier in the day voicing support for a UN report.
On Monday, the New York Sun published the speech that Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would have delivered at that day's rally outside UN headquarters in New York against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and against Iran's plan to destroy Israel.
The UN International Year 2013 and the World Water Day, 22 March 2013, will be dedicated water co-operation.
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Communication and Information Advisor of the UNESCO Beijing Office, Mr Andrea Cairola, will present about upcoming World Radio Day 2013, along with the UN Inter-Agency Meeting on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity scheduled for next month in Vienna.
The UN marked April 12 as the first annual International Day of Human Space Flight.
The UN Security Council is due to meet later in the day to discuss the launch.
The Indonesian president, who is on a three-day state visit to Britain, said the UN panel had a "common vision" over how to respond to the challenges facing the developed and developing world.
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That would give the UN the best chance of forging a new treaty that some day can be added to the very short list of successful international agreements.
The African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW), UN-HABITAT and UN-Water are co-organizing an official World Water Day 2011 event on 20 - 22 March 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Prince Charles and the duchess, who are on a three-day tour of the Middle East, were greeted by UN staff at the camp.
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In line with the UN Literacy Decade (2003-2012) calendar, International Literacy Day put the spotlight this year on the empowering role of literacy and its importance for participation, citizenship and development.
It is envisaged that the conclusions of the seminar will provide inspiring messages to feed the programme of the UN International Year as well as the campaign for the World Water Day 2013, both coordinated by UNESCO in co-operation with UNECE and with the support of UNDESA, UNW-DPAC, UNW-DPC, on behalf of UN-Water.
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Later that day, Irina Bokova participated in a meeting of the 10 UN entities together with UNAIDS secretariat to revitalize global momentum around AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The UN's reason for naming a symbolic date as seven-billion day is to draw attention to the speed of population growth, with less than 13 years having passed between the six-billion and seven-billion milestones.
"The conference decides to take note of the Copenhagen Accord of December 18, 2009, " the chairman of the plenary session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) declared earlier in the day, swiftly banging down his gavel.
From my first day in office, I made the fight against impunity a top UN priority.
Only a day after their study was published in the journal Nature, the UN's environment and biodiversity agencies warned that some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation.
These troops come as formed units and are very largely under their own national command day-to-day, even though there are standards of behavior laid down by the UN.
South Africa's Business Day has criticized African governments for downplaying the Sudanese government's responsibility at the new UN Human Rights Council created this year, saying the Africa group did no more than offer a weak draft resolution.
That is why officials from more than 70 countries and organisations gathered in Madrid on October 23rd for a two-day conference on aid to Iraq (convened by America, the European Union, the UN, the International Monetary Fund and a few others).
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