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The UN HLPF Side Event - RSVP Closed (but, UN GROUND PASS holders can still register and attend)

Tue, Jul 09

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United Nations HQ - Trusteeship Council

Education for Global Citizenship: Empowering Our Interconnected World

Registration is Closed. Delegates from the UN missions & agencies can still attend with their pass.
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The UN HLPF Side Event - RSVP Closed (but, UN GROUND PASS holders can still register and attend)
The UN HLPF Side Event - RSVP Closed (but, UN GROUND PASS holders can still register and attend)

Time & Location

Jul 09, 2019, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

United Nations HQ - Trusteeship Council, New York, NY 10017, USA

About the Event

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This year’s HLPF provides an important venue to expand global awareness of, and commitment to, Education for Global Citizenship (EGC), which is integral to SDG 4.7.  As noted by Inga Rhonda King, President of ECOSOC, HLPF’s reviews “should reflect the integrated nature of the Goals as well as the interlinkages between them.”[1]  EGC provides particularly effective pedagogic tools for inculcating integrative and holistic perspectives on the SDGs while cultivating empowered global citizens and healthy natural systems.

Global citizens identify with being a part of an interdependent world community, respect cultural diversity and human rights, and understand their perspectives and actions impact the values and practices of the world as well as local communities. Enriching conventional notions of identity which include nationality, religion, and ethnicity, global citizenship recognizes local cultures, practices, and knowledge systems and embraces intercultural dialogue in…

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