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UN 66th CSW Side Event: How can eye health contribute to achieving gender equity and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change?
04th March 2022
On 16 March, 08:00am US EST, the United Nations (UN) Friends of Vision will host a virtual expert panel discussion in the margins of the 66th Commission for the Status of Women (CSW). The event will focus on the intersection between vision, gender and climate change and call for the urgent need to dismantle structural barriers that contribute to women and girls being disproportionately vulnerable to vision and climate change.
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UN ECOSOC calls for scaling up of resources for NCDs as part of the COVID-19 response
29th July 2020
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a resolution on the United Nations Inter-agency Taskforce on the prevention and control of NCDs in response to COVID-19.
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2019 UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
31st January 2019
Monday 23 September, the first one day UN High-Level Meeting on Universal health coverage (UHC): Moving together to build a healthier world will be held in New York.
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ENOUGH of pitiful investments: Katie Dain’s message to Governments on financing for NCDs
09th July 2018
“What does civil society see as being the opportunities for countries to scale up financing for NCDs?” Read speech delivered by Katie Dain at the Interactive Hearing in Preparation for the 2018 HLM on NCDs.