UNITED NATIONS GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE

EVENTS

2008

FEBRUARY 2008
25 Feb
CSW Side Event: Financing Gender Equality in Education
Panel Discussion sponsored by UNGEI and the Working Group on Girls of the NGO Committee on UNICEF
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
UN Secretariat, Dag Hammarskjöld Library
 
25-27 Feb
 
25 Feb-7 Mar
 
MARCH 2008
8 Mar
International Women’s Day
 
17-21 Mar
51st Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society
New York, United States
 
APRIL  2008
8-9 Apr
World Economic Forum on Latin America
Mexico
 
21-25 Apr
FTI Donors Technical meeting
Tokyo, Japan
 
21-29 Apr
Global Campaign for Education Action Week
Quality Education to End Exclusion
 
MAY 2008
TBC
Caricom Meeting for Education and Gender Ministers
 
17-19 May
World Economic Forum on the Middle East
Egypt
 
25 May
Africa Day
 
27-30 May
UNICEF Executive Board Annual Session
New York, United States
 
JUNE 2008
4-6 Jun
World Economic Forum on Africa
South Africa
 
9-13 Jun
UNGEI GAC meeting
Nepal 
 
15-16 Jun
World Economic Forum on East Asia
Malaysia
 
16 Jun
Day of the African Child
 
20 Jun
World Refugee Day
 
AUGUST 2008
12 Aug
International Youth Day
 
OCTOBER 2008
1 Oct
Arab Child Day
 
5 Oct
World Teacher’s Day
 
TBC
UNGEI Virtual Conference on Gender and Education
 
17 Oct
International Day for Eradication of Poverty