UN General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa’s office, together with the UN Foundation, organized a forum on non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) access to the UN, particularly the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

The 21 November 2006 event at UN headquarters in New York drew attention to the role NGOs have played in crisis, post-conflict and post-disaster situations and the UN’s reform agenda, especially on the issue of gender equality, among others. At the one-day event, Sheikha Haya announced that she will convene a series of informal thematic debates involving the private sector and civil society on development, gender and the dialogue among civilizations during the coming year. The first such debate will convene 27 November 2006 to consider the progress made so far on reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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UN News Release, 21 November 2006