Event Archive

2012

October

• World Habitat Day

  01 October 2012

  The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day. This year the day falls on 1 October. It will be an occasion to reflect on the state of our towns and cities, the basic right of all, to adequate shelter, basic urban services...

September

• International Day of Peace

  21 September 2012, 22:05

  The International Day of Peace, observed each year on 21 September, is a global call for ceasefire and non-violence.

• Take One Action Film Festival

  21 September - 06 October 2012

  The UK's global change film festival is back celebrating its 5th birthday with two weeks of the most moving and acclaimed cinema about the big issues of our time.

• Third World Centre - 'Post the Millennium Development Goals - What next?'

  17 September 2012, 19:15 - 21:00

  The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been one of the principal means of focusing international action on reducing global poverty. The current MDGs have a target for completion of 2015 and whilst they will have been partly achieved by that date, much more will still need to...

• International Day of Democracy

  15 September 2012, 22:02

  Democracy is a universal value based on the freely expressed will of people to determine their own political, economic, social and cultural systems and their full participation in all aspects of their lives.

• Promoting Nepal

  15 September 2012, 15:00 - 19:25

  1500 to 1615 Formal programme 1625 to 1725 Exhibition 1725 to 1925 Kutumba Band

• Development Studies Association- Scotland Conference

  14 September 2012, 09:45 - 17:15

  “Development Studies in Africa and South Asia: Cutting across regions and disciplines”

• Scottish Development Studies Association Annual Conference

  14 September 2012, 09:45 - 17:15

  Annual conference of the Development Studies Association (Scotland)

• World Sepsis Day: From local to global - addressing 21st Century challenges of sepsis

  13 September 2012, 16:30 - 19:00

  Information about a new initiative at the University of Aberdeen to prevent mothers and babies in the developing world from dying of sepsis.

• International Literacy Day

  08 September 2012, 22:00

  However, with some 796 million adults lacking minimum literacy skills, literacy for all remains an elusive target. UNESCO’s literacy programmes aim to create a literate world and promote literacy for all.