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Today, 21 May, is the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. The 2013 campaign, 'Do One Thing for Diversity and Inclusion' encourages people and organizations around the world to take concrete action to support diversity.

On this Day, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme launches an extract from the 2011 State of the World's Volunteerism Report, 'Volunteerism is Universal', focusing on the universal values that motivate people the world over to volunteer for the common good. Read
    
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VIDEO: Richard Dictus, Ahmad Alhendawi and Thomas Seltzer brief the UN Economic and Social Council on progress made on the youth agenda within the UN
17 May 2013
On Monday 29 April, UNV Executive Coordinator Richard Dictus briefed Member States and Permanent Observers to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Richard joined the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs for the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Thomas Seltzer, in updating ECOSOC on the progress made on the Secretary-General’s Five-Year Action Agenda as it relates to youth. Read
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