The World Urban Youth Assembly 2010: A groundbreaking global platform for youth voices in the United Nations Year of Youth

UN-HABITAT is proud to announce the World Urban Youth Assembly 2010, a key element of the much-anticipated Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This year’s Forum theme will be "The Right to the City: Bridging the Urban Divide."

The Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) is calling for applications for Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Advocacy: A Training Program in Human Rights and Advocacy for Indigenous Advocates from the Asia-Pacific Region.

The program will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 22-28 March. This program held in partnership with Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) will focus on issues surrounding Indigenous people, climate change and the impact of global corporations on Indigenous peoples.

The Orbis Fellowship is the pinnacle of Orbis’ global leadership development. In this dynamic postgraduate program, you are challenged to teach, research, and develop global solutions.

During your six-month stay in China, India, Kenya or Nepal, you will work in high school classrooms facilitating the Orbis Global Leadership Curriculum and work with your students to initiate solutions to global problems in their respective local communities.

Application Deadline: April 1, 2010.

Investigate the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and the Forbidden City. Venture to the cradle of Chinese civilization. Explore your role as a global leader and learn to make an impact. Orbis Walkabroad China is the five-week intensive global leadership course for college students that will challenge you to gain on-the-ground knowledge of one of the most influential and dynamic countries in the world.

The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA, invite submissions for papers and poster presentations for their first formal graduate student conference.

The Exploring Childhood Studies conference proposes defining Childhood Studies by "doing" childhood studies; the conference will explore the field by offering explorations within it.

The 2010 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting, held in Miami, will focus on how students can take practical action to solve global challenges in education, environment & climate change, peace & human rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. Confirmed speakers this year include John Podesta, MSNBC Anchor David Gregory, and Usher.

Applying and attending are FREE. The deadline for applications is February 22, 2010.

Presented by Unite For Sight, 7th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

The Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes more than 2,200 students and professionals from 55 countries who are interested in global health and international development, public health, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.

This conference, organised by the School of Social Sciences, Park Campus, University of Northampton, United Kingdom, gathers academics, journalists, researchers, policy makers and civil society organisations to discuss youth use of new media and the implication this has on identity construction, public opinion, citizenship and social change.

4th Annual Women's Symposium
SIAS University Campus, Zhengzhou, China

This year's Symposium will feature presentations by members of the World Academy for the Future of Women who have addressed the UN Millennium Development Goals in their leadership projects.

Symposium Topics: Social Entrepreneurship; Communicating Through the Arts; Sustaining Family and Communities; Living in Harmony with the Environment; Health, Body, Mind, and Spirit; Education to All

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010

This year’s eLearning Africa, the fifth in the highly successful series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in Zambia under the patronage of the Zambian Minister of Education, the Honourable Ms Dora Siliya. From May 26th–28th, 2010, the continent’s largest annual assembly of eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond will convene in the capital, Lusaka. eLearning Africa continues to build and expand its worldwide network of people involved in all aspects of technology.