Event Archive

International Day of UN Peacekeepers

This year's theme for the international day of UN peacekeepers is "UN PEACEKEEPING: ADAPTING TO NEW CHALLENGES." United Nations peacekeeping has adapted its policies, revised its structures and developed new practices and training to better perform its life-saving work.

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

In 2001, UNESCO adopted the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity and in December 2002, the UN General Assembly, in its resolution 57/249, declared May 21 to be the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. This years theme is "Do One Thing for Diversity and Inclusion"

Being a midwide in Malawi and the Community midwife programme

Four Commonwealth students are visiting Aberdeen to exchange their experiences of being a midwife in Malawi and also of the Community Midwife Assistant Programme.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICT

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Nourishing the City: The Rise of the Urban Food Question

In this lecture, Prof Kevin Morgan will explain why cities are becoming food policy actors for a whole series of reasons, largely to do with public health, social justice and ecological integrity. He will give examples of urban food pioneers from North America, Asia, Latin America and Europe, focusing...

SYRIA AND THE PROHIBITION OF INTERVENTION: LESSONS LEARNED

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World Malaria Day

The theme for 2014 and the coming years is: Invest in the future. Defeat malaria. Over the last decade, the world has made major progress in the fight against malaria. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25 per cent, and 50 of the 99 countries with ongoing...

New Directions in Social Policy

An UNRISD Panel Discussion in partnership with the UNOG Library

World Health Day

World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April every year to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948. Each year a theme is selected that highlights a priority area of public health. The Day provides an opportunity for individuals in every community to get involved in activities...

Scotland and the Post-2015 Agenda: Engaging with the Sustainable Development Agenda

This event was fully booked

The conference aims to bring together a variety of voices: government, civil society, business/private sector and Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to ensure joined-up discussion looking both at human and sustainable development.