January |
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1 Jan |
New Year (Malaysia public holiday)
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12 - 14 Jan |
UNICEF Executive Board Meeting
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18 - 23 Jan |
126th WHO Executive Board meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/
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28 - 30 Jan |
Global Health Information Forum, Better information. Better decisions. Better health.Bangkok, Thailand http://www.who.int/healthmetrics/2010forum/en/index.html
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February |
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14 Feb |
WABA’s 19th Anniversary www.waba.org.my
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14 - 15 Feb |
Chinese New Year (Malaysia Public Holiday)
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26 - 27 Feb |
CIMS Forum. Mother-Friendly Childbirth Forum, Austin, Texas www.motherfriendly.org
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27 Feb |
Wellstart’s 25th Anniversary
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March |
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1 - 12 Mar |
CSW 54th Session of UNCSW, New York, (UNBAT) Beijing + 15. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15
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3 Mar |
9th Annual IBCLC Day, Experience you can trust. http://www.ilca.org
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8 Mar |
International Women’s Day (IWD), Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/iwd/
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15 Mar |
World Consumer Rights Day, Our money,Our rights. http://www.consumersinternational.org
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20 Mar |
Breastfeeding and Feminism 5th Symposium Informing Public Health Approaches Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC at Greensboro. http://www.uncg.edu/hhp/cwhw/symposium
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20 - 21 Mar |
3rd European Regional Conference of Physicians, Torun, Poland, http://www.bfmed.org/events/
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22 Mar |
Water Day, Water Quality, http://www.worldwaterday.org/
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29 Mar |
Earth Hour
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31 Mar - 3 Apr |
4th South Africa AIDS Conf, Durban, South Africa, Scaling up for Success http://www.saaids.com/
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April |
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7 Apr |
World Health Day, 1000 Cities, 1000 Lives http://www.who.int/world-health-day/en
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22 Apr |
Earth Day
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May |
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1 May |
International Labor Day (Malaysia Public Holiday)
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5 May |
International Day of Midwives
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6 - 31 |
GOLD10.Global Online Lactation Discussion 2010 http://www.goldconf.com/
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9 May |
Mother’s Day
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15 May |
International Day of Families / International AIDS Memorial Day
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16 - 23 May |
World Respected Childbirth Week, Birth Trauma, Birth Pleasure http://www.smar.info/
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17 May |
63rd World Health Assembly, Celebrating 10 years of Excellence in Global Health, Geneva. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/
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18 May |
8th Anniversary of GSIYCF
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20 - 26 May |
Global AIDS Week of Action
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25 - 26 May |
Asia Media Summit, Beijing www.aibd.org.my
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28 May |
International Day of Action for Women’s Health
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31 May |
World No-Tobacco Day
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June |
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1 - 4 June |
UNICEF Annual Exec. Board of Meeting, http://www.norway-un.org/Statements/Other-Statements/UNICEFs-annual-Executive-Board-meeting/
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5 June |
World Environment Day
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7 - 25 June |
Breastfeeding Practice and Policy course, (UCL- Institute of Child Health) London. http://www.unscn.org/en/announcements/training/?id=108
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7 - 9 June |
Women Deliver Conference 2010, Delivering Solutions for girls and women, Washington DC. http://www.womendeliver.org/conferences
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8 - 12 June |
XI ENAM, National Meeting on Breastfeeding, Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil http://www.enam2010.com.br/index.cfm
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9 - 12 June |
The Hartmann/Hale Human Lactation Research Conference, http://www.ibreastfeeding.com/content/page/hartmann-hale-conference
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10 - 11 June |
WABA-NA Meeting, Washington D.C
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13 - 16 June |
CPHA Centennial Conference, Public Health in Canada, Shaping the Future Together, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario. http://www.cpha.ca/en/conferences/conf2010.aspx
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16 - 17 June |
2nd Annual Summit on Breastfeeding, Washington , DC. http://www.bfmed.org/Events/Details.aspx?ID=23
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14 - 18 June |
Global Health Conference. Goals & Metric, Washington, D.C http://www.globalhealth.org/conference_2010/
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20 June |
Father’s Day
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July |
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4 Jul |
33rd Anniversary of Nestle Boycott
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5 Jul |
ABM 15th Anniversary
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8 - 10 Jul |
G8 Summit, Muskoka 2010, Canada http://www.g8italia2009.it/G8/Home/News/G8-G8_Layout_locale-1199882116809_1199902080096.htm
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11 Jul |
World Population Day – UNFPA
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11 - 15 Jul |
20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Geneva, Switzerland http://www.unscn.org/en/announcements/conferences/?id=190
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18 - 23 Jul |
IAS 2010, XVIII International AIDS Conference. Right Here, Right Now. Vienna, Austria www.aids2010.org
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24 - 27 Jul |
ILCA Conference, San Antonio, Texas. ILCA at 25: A Lactation Celebration http://www.ilca.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3724
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August |
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1 Aug |
20th Anniversary of Innocenti Declaration
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1 - 7 Aug |
World Breastfeeding Week http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/
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4 - 9 Aug |
International Pediatric Association, Congress of Pediatrics, 2010 (IPA), Johannesburg, South Africa (HCPTF)
http://www.ipa-world.org/IPAcongress/default.htm
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11 Aug |
Fasting Month starts (Ramadhan)
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12 Aug |
International Youth Day
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18 - 20 Aug |
3rd CIVICUS Youth Assembly, Acting together for a Just World, Montreal, Canada. https://www.civicusassembly.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=60&Itemid=94&lang=en
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20 - 23 Aug |
9th CIVICUS World Assembly, Acting Together for a Just World, Montreal. www.civicusassembly.org
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31 Aug |
Malaysia National Day (Malaysia Public Holiday)
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September |
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10 - 11 Sep |
Hari Raya Puasa (Malaysia Public Holiday)
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21 Sep |
International Day of Peace
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20 - 22 Sep |
UN MDG Summit, The MDGS at 10 and Civil Society
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?page=amdg10&id_article=2233
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23 - 25 Sep |
Nutrition 2010, 2nd World Congress of Public Health Nutrition: Moving Towards a healthy and sustainable nutrition forall Porto, Portugal.
http://www.sightandlife.org/news-events/conferences
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29 Sep - 3 Oct |
Midwifery Today Conference, “Birth Is a Human Rights Issue”. www.midwiferytoday.com/conferences/Strasbourg2010/
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October |
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2 Oct |
International Day of Non-Violence (The Late Gandhi’s birthday)
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5 - 7 Oct |
Susuibu.com International Lactation Conference 2010, KUIS, Selangor. http://susuibu.com/siconf2010/
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4 Oct |
World Habitat Day (first Monday of the month)
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10 Oct |
World Mental Health Day/ International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
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12 Oct |
IBFAN’s 31st Anniversary
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12 - 15 Oct |
European AIDS Conference/EACS, Belgrade, Serbia. http://www.eacs-conference2011.com/
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13 Oct |
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (second Wednesday of the month)
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15 / 16 Oct |
World Rural Women’s Day / World Food Day
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17 Oct |
LLLI’s 54th Anniversary
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17 Oct |
International Day for Eradication of Poverty
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17 - 19 Oct |
WABA Expanded Global Breastfeeding Partners’ Forum (GBPF) http://www.waba.org.my/
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22 - 24 Oct |
WABA Steering Committee Meeting, Penang
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24 Oct |
U.N Day
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27 - 30 Oct |
ABM 15th Annual International Meeting, What every Physician needs to know about Breastfeeding San Francisco, California
http://www.bfmed.org/Meeting/ConfDetails.aspx
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21 - 23 Oct |
VELB & ILCA Conference, Protection and Support of Breastfeeding, Basle (Switzerland)
http://www.velb.org/english/index.html
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26 Oct - 1 Nov |
International Nestle Free Week. http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2009/10/nestle-free-twitter.html
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November |
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5 Nov |
Deepavali (Malaysia Public Holiday)
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6 - 10 Nov |
APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition, 138th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colarado
http://www.apha.org/meetings/
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9 - 12 Nov |
One Asia Breastfeeding Forum 2010, Jakarta Indonesia
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14 - 17 Nov |
U.N. World Diabetes Day / International Students Day
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16 Nov |
International Day of Tolerance
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19 - 20 Nov |
World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse
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20 Nov |
Universal Children’s Day
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25 Nov |
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (White Ribbon Day)
http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/sayno/
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25 - 26 Nov |
ASPQ Conference, Birthing the World, Quebec City Convention Centre, Canada
http://www.enfanterlemonde.com/intro.aspx
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December |
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1 Dec |
World AIDS Day
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3 Dec |
International Disability Day
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5 Dec |
International Volunteer Day (UN)
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8 Dec |
Global Day of Action on climate change
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9 Dec |
UN Anti Corruption Day
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10 Dec |
Human Rights Day
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25 Dec |
Christmas (Malaysia public holiday)
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WHAT’S UP IN 2011? |
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14 Feb |
WABA 20th Anniversary
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21 Feb - 5 March |
Breastfeeding: Advocacy & Practice, Third regional course for doctors, midwives and other senior health professionals in South East Asia, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia.
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1 - 7 Aug |
World Breastfeeding Week
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