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UN Summit events archive

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Click here >> for a list of useful resources – documents and websites – that were produced ahead of the UN High-level meeting on NCDs.

Below is a list of events at which the UN High-level Meeting has been discussed. This list is now closed, following the conclusion of the HLM.

2011

September:

  • 19: Political Declaration unanimously adopted at the opening plenary of the UN HLM: click here >>
  • 13: Guidance note for civil-society organisations attending the UN HLM issued: click here >>
  • 9: Draft Political Declaration released
  • 9: Document setting out organisational arrangements for the UN released: click here >>
  • 2: Negotiation ends on the Outcomes Document (now known as a Political Declaration)

August:

  • 17: NCD Alliance sends letter of concern to the UN Secretary-General: for a News Alert with more information, click here >>
  • 10: NCD Alliance launches a position statement (click here >>) calling for increased advocacy around the Outcomes Document.
  • 5: Negotiations on the Outcomes Document are suspended until September.

July:

  • 21: NCD Alliance publishes its suggested goals and priority targets for HLM: click here >>
  • 15: Publication of ‘Proposals on NCD targets from a WHO Technical Working Group’: click here >>
  • 15: Latest iteration of Outcomes Document published: click here >>
  • 5: Negotiations begin on the ‘Zero Draft’ Outcomes Document

June:

  • 10: Deadline for contributions to online consultation ahead of the civil society meeting on 16 June: click here >>Sir George Alleyne at the UN civil society hearing
  • 16: UN General Assembly: informal interactive hearing with NGOs, civil society organisations, the private sector and academia: click  here >> for C3’s short report on the meeting
  • 23 June: UN High-level Meeting ‘Zero Draft’ Outcomes Document published: click here >>

May:

  • 14: Commonwealth Partners meeting on NCDs, Geneva: i) Preventing NCDs: children and young people – click here >>; ii) Provision of care for people living with NCDs – click here >>
  • 15: Commonwealth Health Ministers meeting, ‘NCDs: a priority for the Commonwealth’, Geneva: click  here >>
  • 16–25: 64th World Health Assembly, Geneva: click here >> and click  here >> for the Resolution on NCDs adopted at the WHA
  • 31: World Heart Federation, Global Health Agenda Teleconference

April:

  • 8: The Lancet NCD Action Group and the NCD Alliance publishes article ahead of the UN HLM, setting out ‘Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis’: click here >>
  • 4-6: Regional consultation (Africa), Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo: click here >> for a C3 news alert and here >> for more on the Brazzaville Declaration on NCDs (7 April).
  • 14–15: Oxford Health Alliance annual meeting on NCDs, Oxford, UK: click here >>
  • 27: WHO Global NCD Forum, Moscow: click here >> for video content
  • 28–9: Russian Ministerial Conference on NCDs and Healthy Lifestyles, Moscow: click here >> for general information, click here >> for a C3 news alert about the conference, and also click here >> for the Declaration arising from the conference

March

  • 31:  Edinburgh Global Health Academy Symposium, Edinburgh, UK: click here >>
  • 25–7th: WHO / UNDESA UN Summit Regional Member States Consultation: Western Pacific,  at the WPRO Regional Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases, Seoul, South Korea: click here >>
  • 22: The NCD Alliance launched its Proposed Outcomes Document for the Summit: for a C3 News Alert, click here >> and for the document itself click here >>
  • 2-3rd: Conference on ‘The long tail of global health equity: tackling endemic non-communicable disease in the “bottom billion”‘, Boston: for a C3 News Alert, click here >>
  • 1–4th: Regional Meeting on Health and Development Challenges of Noncommunicable Diseases, Jakarta, Indonesia: http://www.searo.who.int/en/section1174/section1459.htm

February:

  • 25th: ‘NCDs: a neglected dimension of women’s health and development’, a  side-event at the UN 55th Commission on the Status of Women: for a C3 News Alert on the event and the accompanying report, click here >>
  • 24–5th: PAHO Regional Meeting on NCDs, Mexico City: click here >> for  C3 News Alert or the PAHO website: http://new.paho.org/
  • 14–17th: WHO / UNDESA UN Summit Regional Member States Consultation at the SEARO  Regional Meeting on Health And Development Challenges of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD), Dhaka, Bangladesh: http://www.searo.who.int/
  • 9–18th: 49th Commission for Social Development, New York: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/csocd/2011.html

January:

  • 26-29th: World Economic Forum, Davos (see, particularly, session on combating chronic disease: click here >>)
  • 17–25th: 128th WHO Executive Board session,  Geneva: click here >>

2010

December:

  • 23rd: Modalities Resolution published: click here >>
  • 13th: Middle East and North Africa Diabetes Leadership Forum (Dubai) discussed the UN Summit: see C3 News Alert here >> and also click here >> for the Forum website
  • 9th: Second NCD Alliance Common Interest Group teleconference
  • 6th: NCD Alliance issues urgent, updated Call to Action on the Modalities Resolution: click here >>

November:

  • 26th: NCD Alliance issues Call to Action on the Modalities Resolution: click here >>
  • 25th: Blog by Richard Smith, ‘The moment is coming for chronic disease’ (including comment on World Economic Forum meeting on the UN Summit, 22-23 November): click here >>
  • 25-26th: High-level representatives of almost 40 governments from the WHO European Region meet in Oslo to discuss NCDs and the Summit: click here >>
  • 23rd: UN General Assembly met to discuss the growing epidemic of NCDs and their socioeconomic impacts: click here >>
  • 10th: Lancet Special Issue on Chronic Disease and Development: click here >>
  • 10th: Sir George Alleyne gives C3 breakfast seminar on planning for the UN Summit: click here >> for report, slides and video footage
  • 9th: Meeting at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London to discuss NCDS: click here >>
  • 2nd: Informal dialogue between WHO and the private sector on the way forward to the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Non-communicable Diseases, Geneva: click here >>
  • 1st: Meeting of WHO and civil society groups to agree a way forward: click here >>

October:

  • 26th: Derek Yach, ‘Non communicable diseases: trends, foreign policy implications and planning for the UN High Level meeting in 2011′ (Council on Foreign Relations, New York): click here >>

September:

  • 30th: First teleconference of the NCD Alliance’s Common Interest Group
  • 20th: Side event on NCDs, held during the MDG Review summit: click here >>
  • 17th: Outcomes document of the UN’s MDG Review 2010 published, including sections on NCDs: click here >> (see paras 73(k) and 76(i))
  • 17th: NCD Alliance launches Plan for the UN Summit: click here >>
  • 9th: Article by George Alleyne, David Stuckler and Ala Alwan in Globalization and Health, ‘The hope and the promise of the UN Resolution on non-communicable diseases’: click here >>

August:

  • 3rd: Precis of responses to the C3 online discussion on the MDGs and chronic disease: click here >>

July:

  • WHO Information Note, ‘Towards implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/64/264′: click here >>

May:

  • 20th: UN General Assembly: Resolution A/RES/64/265 establishing the UN Summit, click here >>

March:

  • C3 online discussion on NCDs and the Millennium Development Goals: click here >>

2009

November:

  • 27-29th: Commonwealth Heads of Government Statement on Commonwealth Action on NCDs: click here >>

May:

  • ‘Health and development: held back by NCDs’ – a meeting during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, organised by IDF, UICC and WHF: click here >>

Other useful links

NCD Alliance website: http://www.ncdalliance.org/

President of the UN General Assembly’s introduction to the UN HLM, click here >>