The second session of the Global Platform is scheduled to take place in Geneva, Switzerland Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 16, 17 and 18 June 2009 at the Centre International de Conférences de Genève (CICG). The venue will also be available for selected meetings and side events on Monday 15 June and on Friday 19 June 2009.

The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum on disaster risk reduction. At its first session in June 2007, it brought together over 1100 representatives of governments, UN agencies, regional bodies, international financial institutions, civil society, the private sector and the scientific and academic communities to raise awareness on disaster risk, to share experience and to guide the ISDR system with a view to supporting countries to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action.

For further information please go to www.preventionweb.net/globalplatform/2009/

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