<b><br /> Umud Rahimoglu, Chairman of the International Eurasia Press Fund and Nick Nwolisa, Head of Program Development and International Relations are on business trip to New York. <br /> <br /> The aim of the travel is to participate in deliberations on IEPF Quadrennial Report and in the Fiftieth Session of the Commission on Social Development of ECOSOC division, UN. Umud Rahimoglu, Chairman of IEPF passed the information. Based on his information the IEPF Report was approved.<br /> </b>
The Session had various agenda for discussion: preparation for and observance of the 20th anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 2014; the report of the Secretary-General on the social dimension of the New Partnership for Africa Development; poverty eradication; and mainstreaming disability in development.
IEPF Representatives attended the session for “Poverty: youth employment”. N. Nwolisa made an oral statement on the topic “Displacement as a main cause of unequal opportunities among Azerbaijan youths and high level of youth unemployment”. In his speech N. Nwolisa spoke about life circumstances of IDPs who were obliged and forced to leave their native lands; and about IEPF activities in related sphere and he followed up with a question for the house in the deliberations.
It should be stated that last year, the Chairman of IEPF gave an oral statement at the UN High Level Segment on Education held in Geneva.
Information Department, IEPF