New York, 18-20 January 2012

This meeting was attended by international indigenous experts whose findings are to be submitted to the Eleventh Session of the Permanent Forum in May 2012. This Expert Group Meeting has been organized following a recommendation of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), approved by ECOSOC decision 2011/266, which authorized a three-day international expert group meeting on the theme "Combating violence against indigenous women and girls: article 22 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" and requested that the results of the meeting be reported to the Permanent Forum at its Eleventh Session, to the General Assembly at its Sixty-seventh Session and to the Commission on the Status of Women at its Fifty-sixth Session in 2012.

Tokyo Japan 19-21 April 2012

The Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat (DESA) and the United Nations Information Center (hereinafter referred to as “UNIC”) in close collaboration with the Nippon Foundation of Japan (hereinafter referred to as “the Foundation”), will organize at the United Nations Information Center in Tokyo, Japan, a three-day“Expert Group meeting on Building Inclusive Society and Development through Promoting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Accessibility: emerging issues and trends ”.

New York, 15-17 May 2012

Expert Group Meeting on "Good Practices in Family Policy Making: Family Policy Development, Monitoring and Implementation: Lessons Learnt", New York, 15-17 May 2012. The meeting is convened as part of preparations for the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, 2014.