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Events
The Sam Kader Memorial Fund participates actively in United Nations (UN) conferences and events to promote action on global health, deafness and hearing, violence and disability. The Fund advocates for UN Member States to adopt concise, action-oriented plans to address the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for future generations.
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Sam Kader Memorial Fund and UN engagement:
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2017 High Level Side Event to the 72nd General Assembly on Ear Care and Hearing Health in cooperation with Bill Gates.
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UN Economic and Social Council meeting on the implementation of resolution 2016/5 (UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of NCDs), June 2017.
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ECOSOC High-level Segment of the High-level Political Forum 2017 (New York, 10-19 July 2017). See news on the event here.
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Represented at the World Health Organization (WHO) 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai, China 2016.
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ECOSOC High-level Political Forum on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, New York 2016, to raise the priority given to Non Communicable Diseases in national SDG responses.
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United Nations High-Level Meeting on Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, New York 2011.
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World Health Day, April 7.
Sustainable Development Goals
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#3 Good Health and Well-being
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#5 Gender Equality
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#17 Partnerships for the Goals
Around 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss and 34 million of these are children. (source: WHO)
Mrs. Sally Kader of IFPSD organized and moderated the 2017 High Level Side Event to the 72nd General Assembly on Ear Care and Hearing Health, September 14, 2017 UNHQ NY.
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Click here for more information on the event.
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