Featured Speakers

MDGs Summit Outcome - What happened? What is the US' plan? How you can help.
From September 20-22, the United Nations hosted a much-anticipated high level Millennium Development Goals Summit, to discuss progress on achievement of the targets set in 2000 for poverty reduction, cutting maternal and child mortality, ensuring access to primary education, fostering sustainable development and others. President Obama attended the summit, emphasizing the importance of the MDGs Action Plan laid out this summer by his administration.

As an immediate follow-up to this summit, UNA-USA’s Council of Organizations held and event on September 28 to learn about the summit outcomes, the US administration’s plans moving forward from the summit, and how you as an individual and your NGO could take action to help meet the MDGs.   Featured speakers were Peter Yeo with the United Nations Foundation and Sarah Farnsworth with the Millennium Campaign.

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Capitol Hill Seminar Series"This is the United Nations"
Each year in the spring and fall, the Council of Organizations in Washington DC has hosted a five-part seminar series designed to give new Congressional staff members and interns, as well as Council of Organizations staff and interns, an overview of the different issues and agencies of the United Nations and an opportunity to meet and network with others working on international issues. UN agencies and programs featured during this series have been UNIC, UNFPA, ILO, UNHCR, IAEA, UNDP, UNHabitat, FAO, WFP, IFAD, UNEP, UNAIDS, UNICEF, and PAHO/WHO.

UN Briefing SeriesThe Council of Organizations sponsors monthly briefings in New York and Washington DC featuring UN ambassadors, academics, US government officials, distinguished NGO leaders and top Secretariat officials which keep the NGO community informed while offering a forum to share educational information and advocacy plans regarding issues on the UN agenda.

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