Regional Consultations on the Effective Governance of Labour Migration – Admission and post admission policies. Contact person: shcharbakova@ilo.org

Training for the relatives of PLHIV on palliative care under UNDP project ‘Support to HIV and AIDS Prevention and Palliative Care Initiatives of Faith-Based Organizations in the Russian Federation’

Observance of the World Information Society Day: public comments by UNIC Director at the roundtable on “Protecting children in cyberspace”, in the framework of the IT Exhibition “Sviaz-Expocomm 2009”

International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Practical seminar on palliative care for nurses of the city Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases (Sokolonaya gora, 8) under UNDP project ‘Support to HIV and AIDS Prevention and Palliative Care Initiatives of Faith-Based Organizations in the Russian Federation’

Launch of the ILO global report on forced labour entitled “The cost of coercion”. Contact person: bogdanova@ilo.org

- Argues a new report by the United Nations Development Programme -

Moscow, 24 April, 2009 – New policies are needed in Russia to address demographic challenges that seriously threaten the country’s economic and social security, finds a new Human Development Report, ‘Russia Facing Demographic Challenges’, which is being released today.

WHERE: Marriott Royal Aurora Hotel, Petrovka St., 11/20, Petrovsky Hall 2 (metro station Kuznetsky Most)

WHEN: Friday, 24 April, 10:00 (registration starts at 9:30)

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Russian Federation presents the 2008 National Human Development Report Russia Facing Demographic Challenges.

This is the twelfth of the kind in a series launched by UNDP in cooperation with the Government of the Russian Federation and prepared by prominent national experts since 1995.

GENEVA (ILO News) -- The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to mark its 90th anniversary with a series of events and activities held around the world by governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations representing its 182 member states.

Moscow, 14 April 2009 – A new analytical overview Russia: on the Path to Equal Opportunities prepared on the initiative of the United Nations in Russia by a group of independent national experts under the leadership of Mr. Evgeny Gontmakher, Dr. Sc., Professor, Head of the Centre on Social Policy of the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, was launched today.