<b>Nick Nwolisa, IEPF Representative will deliver an oral statement at the event</b><br /> <br /> <br /> Umud Rahimoglu, Chairperson of the International Eurasia Press Fund and Nick Nwolisa, Head of the Program Development and International Relations Department will participate in UN ECOSOC High Level Segment to be held on July 4-8, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The information was provided by Umud Rahimoglu. As he stated the event being held at Le Palais Des Nations in Geneva will focus on the theme: “Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to Education” towards the realization of the MDGs by 2015; and Nick Nwolisa, IEPF Representative will make oral statement regarding to this theme.<br />
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations, Dilma Vana Rousseff, President of Brazil, Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom, Irina Bokova, Director General, UNESCO, Antony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF, Elizabeth King, Director of Education, World Bank, Lazarous Kapambwe, President, Economic and Social Council, heads of various UN agencies will participate and make speeches at the Segment. Ministers of Education of Germany, Belarus, Senegal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Qatar, Zambia, Malawi and Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations in Geneva are among the participants. Investigative scholars from influential universities, officials from various international funds will join the High Level Segment.
Along ECOSOC, IEPF closely collaborates/or conduct discussions for joint collaboration with other UN agencies as UNHCR, UNDAF, UNICEF, UNESCO and International Organization for Migration. Among the functions of IEPF in collaboration with UN agencies is the humanitarian distribution conducted annually at the settlements for IDPs. IEPF tries by organization possibilities to take the humanitarian aid to refugees/IDPs, families with poor life circumstances and warring victims.
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