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About the Eurovision Song Contest What is the Eurovision Song Contest? The Eurovision Song Contest is the world’s largest live music event. It is organized annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world’s foremost alliance of public service media (PSM). The competition, in which participating Member broadcasters of the EBU send a new song to represent their nation, takes place annually in the country that won the previous year’s edition. The event is produced by the EBU toge...

11 November 2020 The Committee on Victim Assistance of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, composed of Italy (Chair) Chile, Sweden and Thailand, convened a virtual Victim Assistance Experts Meeting on 11 November 2020, in the lead up to the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties (18MSP) of the Convention. The VA Experts Meeting was held in accordance with mandate of the Committee to provide “advice to the States Parties in the fulfilment of their commitments under Oslo Action Plan (OAP)�...

  FP2020 FINAL REPORT FINDS MORE WOMEN AND GIRLS HAVE ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING THAN EVER BEFORE Family Planning 2020 was launched with a simple premise: that every woman and girl, no matter where she lives, should have the opportunity to use lifesaving, life-changing modern contraception. The leaders who gathered at the London Summit in 2012 agreed on an ambitious goal and a tight timeframe for achieving it: to reach an additional 120 million users of modern contraception in the world’s 69 ...

11 November 2020 The Committee on Victim Assistance of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, composed of Italy (Chair) Chile, Sweden and Thailand, convened a virtual Victim Assistance Experts Meeting on 11 November 2020, in the lead up to the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties (18MSP) of the Convention. The VA Experts Meeting was held in accordance with mandate of the Committee to provide “advice to the States Parties in the fulfilment of their commitments under Oslo Action Plan (OAP)�...

Published on 3 February 2021 Understanding and addressing exclusion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic   This session is designed to meet the needs of health and social development advisers and those from the wider health network and from other cadres with an interest in health, equity and justice. ​​​​​​​ Why this session now? The impacts of COVID-19 have been harshest for existing marginalized and excluded groups; although new vulnerabi...

Council is engaging the local community to help develop a masterplan for the site at 3-5 Rollo Street in Yarragon (formerly Yarragon Primary...

Integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in COVID-19 Education Responses Format A girl attends a psychosocial support session where she shares her experience through drawings and short stories © UNICEF Uganda /Bongyereirwe Q&A with Sarah Harrison, International Federation of the Red Cross, Co-Chair, Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Reference Group In June 2020, ECW joined other donors in contributing funds to support the work of the Inter-Age...

Delayed Home Office report dispels myths about sexual grooming Delayed Home Office report dispels myths about sexual grooming 25th Dec 2020 Photo: headlines exclusively focused on the  ethnicity and religion of child abuse offenders when they are of Asian and Muslim origin. Hamed Chapman The majority of child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30, according to a delayed Home Office report about the ethnicity of offenders that dispels racist smears linking most groomin...

Biosecurity is in his nature 22 Dec 2020 10:42 AM Author: Ministry for Primary Industries - Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries - Manatū Ahu Matua More Related Stories Media Release Ministry for Primary Industries - Manatū Ahu Matua From culling wild goats to decimating invasive river weed, one Kiwi is combining his passion for the land with hard graft and te ao Māori. Thomas (Tame) Malcolm is dubbed a biosecurity champion, and he has earned that description at just 3...

Event Report: Introduction to IASC guidelines on inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action and its application in Cox’s Bazar Format The observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities. The IDPD is annually observed on 3rd December and the theme of this year was “Building Back Better: toward a disability-in...