Lecture for the students of World Politics Department of Moscow State University

Round-table with Local Administration, Russian Orthodox Church, NGOs, local mass-media on the implementation of the educational programme “Ladya” (prevention of risky behaviour among youth)

Discussion with local partners on cooperation in provision of the complex services for SWs in Irkutsk oblast (meeting with the Ministry of Health of Irkutsk oblast, round-table, press-conference)

Special event for high school students to commemorate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda

UNIC Director to act as a keynote speaker at the joint session of the Nikitsky Club and the European Business Council on major economic trends in today’s world with comments on sustainable development and eradication of poverty

Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Global Compact Network Russia

Working group meeting on the improvement of guardianship and incapacity institutions and press-conference “Important steps to overcome social isolation: protection of rights of legally incapable persons” (jointly with Regional Organization of Persons with Disabilities “Perspektiva”)

On March 22, 2011, an international conference entitled “Child Protection from Abusive Treatment and Violence: how to create a real safety net for children” commenced its work in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

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NEW YORK 25 February 2011. Investing in the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10-19 now can break entrenched cycles of poverty and inequity, said UNICEF today in its 2011 State of the World’s Children report entitled ‘Adolescence: An Age of Opportunity’.