NOVEMBER 2008
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4th
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USA Elections
|
USA
|
5th - 7th
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Africa CONFINTEA Regional Meeting
|
Nairobi
|
13th - 15th
|
9th Meeting of the Working Group on EFA
|
UNESCO, Paris
|
14th - 18th
|
AWID: The power of movements
|
Cape Town
|
16th
|
International Day of Tolerance
|
Global
|
16th
|
Guinea-Bissau National People's Assembly Election
|
Guinea-Bissau
|
20th
|
19th Universal Children's Day
|
Global
|
25th
|
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women
|
Global
|
24th - 29th
|
UNESCO International Conference on Education
|
Geneva
|
25th
|
Education for All Global Monitoring Report Launch
www.efareport.unesco.org
|
Geneva
|
30th
|
Cote d'Ivoire's Presidential and National Assembly Election
|
Cote d'Ivoire
|
29th - 2nd
Dec |
UN Financing for Development Review Conference
|
Doha
|
DECEMBER 2008
|
1st
|
World AIDS Day
|
Global
|
3rd - 6th
|
CONFINTEA European Preparatory Conference
|
Budapest
|
7th
|
Ghana Presidential & National Assembly Election
|
Ghana
|
10th
|
International Human Rights Day: UNDHR 60th Anniversary
|
Global
|
14th
|
Guinea National Assembly Election
|
Guinea
|
|
FTI Partners Meeting
|
Oslo
|
16th - 18th
|
8th Education for All, High Level Group
|
Oslo
|
What's Happening in 2009?
JANUARY 2009
|
5th - 7th
|
CONFINTEA Arab Region Meeting
|
Tunisia
|
22nd - 25th
|
GCE Board Meeting
|
Dacca
|
27th - 1st
|
World Social Forum
|
Belem
|
FEBRUARY 2009
|
|
4th Expert Group Meeting on the UN Literacy Decade
|
|
MARCH 2009
|
8th
|
International Women's Day
|
Global
|
25th
|
GCE's Action Week 2009: The Big Read media launch
|
Global
|
29th
|
Somaliland Presidential Election
|
Somaliland
|
31st March - 2nd April
|
2009 World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development
http://portal.unesco.org/education
/en/ev.php-URL_ID=55176&URL_DO=DO_
TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
|
Bonn
|
APRIL 2009
|
1st
|
Algeria 1st round Presidential Election
|
Algeria
|
20th - 26th
|
GCE's Action Week: The Big Read
Relevant link
|
Global
|
TBC
|
IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings
|
|
20th - 24th
|
UN Durban Review Conference
|
Geneva
|
26th
|
World Intellectual Property Day
|
Global
|
MAY 2009
|
3rd
|
World Press Freedom Day
|
Global
|
16th
|
World Debt Day (10th Anniversary of 1998 G8 human chain)
|
Global
|
19th
|
Malawi 1st round Presidential and National Assembly Election
|
Malawi
|
19th - 22nd
|
CONFINTEA VI "Living and Learning for a Viable Future: The Power of Adult Learning
|
Belem
|
JUNE 2009
|
12th
|
International Day against Child Labour
|
Global
|
16th
|
Day of African Child
|
Global
|
20th
|
World Refugee Day
|
Global
|
JULY 2009
|
6th - 10th
|
World Conference on Higher Education
|
Paris
|
TBC
|
Group of Eight
|
Italy
|
AUGUST 2009
|
9th
|
International Day of the World's Indigenous People
|
Global
|
SEPTEMBER 2009
|
8th
|
World Literacy Day
|
Global
|
OCTOBER 2009
|
5th
|
World Teachers' Day
|
Global
|
tbc
|
IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings
|
|
6th - 23rd
|
35th General Conference of UNESCO
|
Paris
|
17th
|
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
|
Global
|
NOVEMBER 2009
|
20th
|
Universal Children's Day
|
Global
|
25th
|
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women
|
Global
|
DECEMBER 2009
|
1st
|
World AIDS Day
|
Global
|
10th
|
International Human Rights Day
|
Global
|
Ongoing Events
Over the years
|
2001 - 2010
|
International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World
|
2003 - 2012
|
UN Literacy Decade
|
2015
|
Target for Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals
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