The First Preparatory World Jewish Conference was held in Geneva in August 1932.

5. Recommends that the occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society be used for arranging events related to the Summit

In 1911 the first World Congress in Pedology was held in Brussels, Belgium, with attendants from 22 countries.

International The first World Conference on Women was held in Mexico City from June 19 2 July .

2004 World Social Forum The fourth WSF was held in Mumbai, India, from 16 January to 21 January 2004.

The World Bank and UNICEF joined forces to convene the Second Global Partners Forum for orphans and vulnerable children.

Project Five O was founded after the Second World Conference on Women in Copenhagen.

At the margins of the world summit last month, an Informal Meeting of Leaders on Interfaith Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace was held at United Nations Headquarters on 13 September 2005.

In September 2006, Moody's signed a 20 year lease to rent 15 floors of 7 World Trade Center.

Organize a conference on the promotion of human rights concepts to be timed to coincide with this year's anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

All these measures were considered at the Hyogo World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in January 2005.

The convening today of the Kobe World Conference on Disaster Reduction is an opportunity to draw up a framework for a disaster reduction strategy for this century.

In 2003, in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, the Brazilian Government proposed the creation of an international fund to combat hunger and poverty.

Some petroleum experts argue that world oil production will peak in a decade or so.

Redundant military bases will be closed and new weapons systems projects put on hold to finance the restructuring and global deployment of intervention forces.

In that connection, for the first time in our region, the sixteenth World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Caracas in August 2005 a demonstration of the permanent and tireless struggle for youth and their rights.

In the 30 years since the 1st conference on women in Mexico City, we have witnessed the framing of a global agenda for women.

His delegation welcomed the outcome of the Second Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership, held in Cuzco in 2004.

UNITAR had been an organizer of the recent World Summit of cities and local authorities on the information society to prepare the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society about to meet in Tunis.

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, world leaders saw climate change, for the first time, topping the list of global concerns.

(b) Develop and adopt a national plan of action against sexual exploitation and trafficking of children, taking into account the Declaration and Agenda for Action and the Global Commitment adopted at the 1996 and 2001 World Congresses against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Today, Latin American states need political agreements that protect them from becoming the victims of both North American unilateralism and the global economy.

During WFP's Global Meeting in Dublin in June 2004, the essential role of partnerships in addressing the scale of today's problems was stressed.

In the space of only a decade, significant advances in the field of technology have transformed global information flows and the way in which business is conducted.

The main achievement since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women had been a breakthrough in public opinion on gender equality.

For example, the Global Compact Egypt network held a series of seminars on implementation, while the Global Compact Society India helped convene a two day Global Compact Regional Conclave in South Asia in Jamshedpur, which drew more than 200 participants and focused on the issue of business and poverty.

The 2005 world summit has clearly demonstrated that, in five years, we have not given poverty eradication the highest priority on our international agenda.

Partnerships with the private sector and other actors and civil society should be further pursued, building on experience gained since the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Follow up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty fourth special session of the General Assembly priority theme review of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006)

I have the honour to inform you of the Doha International Conference on Ageing, which was held in Doha, Qatar, from 4 to 6 April 2005.

There is one positive note in this dismal picture the sources of global growth today are more diverse than they were a decade ago.

The message, it seems, has finally gotten through global warming represents a serious threat to our planet.

There is one positive note in this dismal picture the sources of global growth today are more diverse than they were a decade ago. The real engines of global growth in recent years have been developing countries.

The Millennium Declaration was built upon a decade of major United Nations conferences and summits, including the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women.

Change in the global economy, from a decade of high structural growth to a long period of low growth, is playing a major role as well.

Follow up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty fourth special session of the General Assembly priority theme review of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006)

for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006)

Follow up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty fourth special session of the General Assembly priority theme review of First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006)

Follow up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty fourth special session of the General Assembly priority theme review of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006)

priority theme Review of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997 2006)

The draft contained a strong reference to the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in January 2005, and to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 2015.

An important theme of debate during the Fifth World Social Forum, held in Brazil, in January 2005, was the fight against hunger and poverty.

Over the last 20 or 30 years we have begun to comprehend what is at stake, owing to initiatives like the World Water Forum, which held its fourth annual meeting in March.

He was also a speaker and an active participant at the First World Conference on Islamic Education held at Mecca in 1977, where he chaired the Committee on Aims and Definitions of Islamic Education.

It was pointed out that a number of trends had been adversely affecting social development since the convening of the World Summit for Social Development a decade ago.