Here are key links to advocacy moments throughout the year at which we push our CLD agenda! (Photo: UN Women/Pornvit Visitoran)
World Health Organization Executive Board Meeting – 18-26 January, 2021
International Day of Education – 24 January, 2021
African Union Summit – 6-7 February, 2021. Theme: Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want
UN Commission on Social Development (CSocD) – 8-17 February, 2021
International Women’s Day – 8 March, Global. Theme: Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 World. #IWD2021
UN Commission on the State of Women , 15-26 March, 2021
World Water Day – 22 March, 2021. Water and Climate Change
World Bank Spring Meetings – 5-11 April, 2021
Skoll World Forum, 13-15 April, 2021
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) – 19-30 April, 2021. Theme: Peace, justice and strong institutions: the role of indigenous peoples in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 16
InterAction Forum – 23-24 March, 2021
Earth Day – 22 April, 2021. Global
World Health Assembly – 14 May – 1 June, 2021
High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) – 6-15 July, 2021, New York. Theme: Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development: building an inclusive and effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda in the context of the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – 9 August, 2021. (UNPFII above 19 April)
International Youth Day – 12 August, 2021
SIMI World Water Week – 23-27 August
Democracy Day – September 15, 2021
UN General Assembly – 15 to 30 September, 2021, NY
International Day of Non-Violence – 2 October, 2021 (Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday,) – given Gandhi’s championship of village self-governance, this is an important opportunity for the CLD Movement.
International Day of Rural Women – 15 October, 2021, Global
World Food Day – 16 October, 2021, Global
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – 17 October, 2021, Global
G20 Summit – 30-31 October, 2021, Rome
World Toilet Day – 19 November, 2021, Global
UN Climate Change Conference (COP) – 1-12 November, 2021
Nutrition for Growth Summit – tbd December, 2021, Tokyo
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence November 25 – December 10, 2021
Human Rights Day – 10 December, 2021