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Some Key Events in 2009 for UNICEF

January

State of the Worlds Children Report 2009 Launch (15)
“Maternal and Newborn Health”

February

March

International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (1)

International Women’s Day (8)
‘Women and Men United to End Violence Against Women”

Regional Millennium Development Goals Summit, Nadi (16-20)

World Water Day (22)

“Transboundary waters”

Pacific Forum Education Ministers Meeting, Tonga (24-27)

April

World Health Day (7)

ILO Symposium on Social Justice and Child Labour (20-24)

MICS launch –Vanuatu (28)

May

Launch of Looking Back Moving Forward

Japan-Pacific Immunization Programme Strengthening (J-PIPS) meeting, Nagasaki, Japan (11-15)

June

World Day Against Child Labour (12)

July

South Pacific Youth Festival (13-18)

Pacific Islands Health Ministers’ Meeting, PNG (Date TBC)

August

World Breastfeeding Week (3-7)
“A Vital Emergency Response”

International Youth Day (12)

Launch of Counting Up, Counting Down, Cairns (in conjunction with PIFS Forum Leaders meeting)

Tadra Kahani (12-14)

September

South Pacific Council of Youth and Children Courts, Auckland
(Date TBC)

Global Economic Crisis and Children, Fiji (Date TBC)

October

World Teachers Day (5)

UN day (20)

November

Universal Children’s Day (20)

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against women (25)

December

World AIDS Day (1)

State of the World’s Children Report 2010 (Date TBC)

International Human Rights Day (10)

Kids Link Video for San Marino/Alexander Bodini Foundation Award to UNICEF HQ (15)

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