Venue: Live webcast from the UN in New York
Date: 15 May 2018
Time: 18:15 hours- 19:30 hours South African Time
The HSRC’s Professor Monde Makiwane will be participating at the UN’s International Day of Families on 15 May 2018.
He will be speaking specifically on a topic titled “Families and inclusive societies in Africa”. The discussion will be webcast live from the site http://webtv.un.org/ on 15 May 2018 at 1:15-2.30 New York time (18:15 hours-19:30 hours South African time).
Background
You are cordially invited to the events commemorating the 2018 International Day of Families.
The official observance Families and Inclusive Societies will take place 15 May 2018 at 1:15–2:30 at UNHQ in New York in conference room 6.
The event Fostering Family-Friendly Cities, organised by the NY NGO Committee on the Family will be held 15 May, 3-4:30 at the Church Centre.
SDGs and Families. Results of the Global Research Project event organised by IFFD in cooperation with SOS Children’s Villages, UNICEF & DSPD/DESA will be held on 16 May, 1:15-2:30 in Confrence room 6 at UNHQ.
The events held at the UN will be webcast live and archived on the UN website http://webtv.un.org/.
Below please find more information.
The events are open to the public. If you need a pass to enter UN premises please let me know by 9 May.
You are welcome to share this info with your contacts.
Families and Inclusive Societies
Panel discussion organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, DSPD/DESA
Tuesday, 15 May, 1:15-2:30 PM, United Nations Headquarters.
PROGRAMME
Opening remarks: Daniela Bas
Director, Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Moderator: Yan Ruth Xia
Professor, Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Keynote address:
Bahira Sherif Trask
Professor and Chair, Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Delaware
“Families and family policies for inclusive societies: focus on SDG16”
Presentations:
Monde Makiwane
Professor, Human Science Research Council, South Africa
“Families and inclusive societies in Africa”
Shanthi Thambiah
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya
“Family policies for social inclusion in Asia with a gender perspective”
Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco
Professor of Economics, Connecticut College
“Indigenous families and social inclusion in Latin America”
More information available at:
https://www.un.org/development/desa/family/international-day-of-families/2018idf.html
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Fostering Family-Friendly Cities
Tuesday, 15 May, 3-4:30 pm, Church Centre (across from the UN)
Proposed Speakers
• Liora Danan New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
• Dr. Timothy Nelson, Princeton University
• Dr. Kathryn Edin, Johns Hopkins University
For more information please contact Mr. Ryan Koch at ryan.koch@ldschurch.org
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SDGs and Families. Results of the Global Research Project
Wednesday, 16 May, 1:15-2:30, UNHQ, Conference room 6
http://www.familyperspective.org/act/act-0042-en.php
For more information please contact Mr. Alex Vazquez at un@iffd.org