2008 Year of...
- United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012)
- International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010)
- Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2001-2010)
- International Decade for Action: Water for Life (2005-2015)
- International Year of Sanitation 2008
- International Year of Planet Earth 2008
2008
April 2008
New DAC figures on aid
CSD 16 (Climate Change and Africa - Water and Sanitation review)
Meeting of the OECD/DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (leading to Accra HLF)
Informal meeting of EU environmental visitors
11-13 April
UNCTAD XII, Accra
20-25 April
GAERC including development (Luxembourg)
28-29 April
May 2008
International AIDS Conference
3 May
EU-Latin America Summit, Lima, Peru
16-17 May
Pangea Day
10 May
World Debt Day (10th Anniversary of 1998 G8 human chain)
16 May
Jubilee Debt Campaign event in Birmingham, UK, with other countries
around the world connecting
18 May
G8 Environment Ministers meeting (Kobe, Japan)
25-27 May
World Health Assembly (Geneva)
19-24 May
June 2008
Day of The African Child
16 June
Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence
11-17 June
EU Summit
19-20 June
July 2008
Zaragoza International Water Exhibition, Spain
ECOSOC Development Co-operation Forum tbc (leading to UN FfD in Doha)
France takes over EU Presidence
1 July
G8 summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan
7-9 July
August 2008
Olympic Games, Beijing
8-29 August
International Youth Day
12 August
World Water Week, Stockholm
17-23 August
Republican and Democrat national conventions
September 2008
50 Global Days of Action against poverty and inequality
High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Accra, Ghana
2-4 September
Fifth European Social Forum in Malmo
18-21 September
UN High level conference on MDGs, New York
25 September
Evaluation of UN development activities
September or October
October 2008
ITUC World Day for Decent Work
7 October
Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF
11-13 October
Rural Women's Day
15 October
World Food Day
16 October
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
17 October
Stand Up and Take Action against Poverty and Inequality
17-19 October
Micah Sunday
19 October
November 2008
BOND AGM
4 November (date to be confirmed)
New US President elected
9 November
ACP-EU JPA in ACP country
22-28 November
UN Financing for Development Review Conference in Doha, Qatar
29 November - 2 December
December 2008
New DAC figures
World AIDS Day
1 December
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 14), Poznan, Poland
1-12 December
60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration on Human Rights
10 December