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The Year 2000 - Year of Jubilee
Jan 1 – Jun 30 Portuguese Presidency of EU starts
Feb 12 – 20 UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD X), Bangkok - looking at alternative processes for debt cancellation
March 8 International Women's Day
March 18 -21 40th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre in Johannesburg, South Africa
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.April 7 World Health Day
April 10-14 G77 meeting, Havana, Cuba
April 16- 18 World Bank/IMF meetings
May/June OAU Summit
May 14 – 20 Christian Aid Week
June 5 World Environment Day
June 11 Pentecost Sunday – Churches' Millennium Celebration Day
June 18 UN African Day of the Child
June 26 – 30 UN Social Summit, Geneva
July 1 France begins Presidency of the EU
July 21 – 23 G8 Leaders Summit, Okinawa, japan
1st August 166th Anniversary of the coming into effect of the 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act of the British Parliament.
28-29 August New York Millennium Summit of Religious Leaders
8 September International Literacy Day
'Millennium Assembly' 55th session of the General Assembly, New YorkSeptember 26-28 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Prague, Czech Republic
October Black History Month
October 17 International Day for the eradication of Poverty
October 22 – 29 One World Week
October 24 United Nations Day
November US elections
December 1 World AIDS Day
December 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
December 10 Human Rights Day
December 31st End of Jubilee 2000 campaign in the UK
End of France's Presidency of the EU
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