He warned that while there is ill feeling about the former prime minister, some people may use the event for their own political agenda.

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Speaking to BBC Lincolnshire, the Rt Rev Dr Tim Ellis said the ceremonial funeral was "asking for trouble" and should be "more low-key and personal", because people would use the event for their own political agenda.

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But Geldof's agenda does not include organising another event similar to Live Aid.

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The films were made on the occasion of the United Nations International Year for Tolerance of 1995, an event organized within the UN program "An Agenda for Peace", as well as the UNESCO program Culture of Peace .

UNESCO: Culture

Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).

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Professor Schwab describes the event at Davos as "bringing together the key decision makers from all walks of life to address the challenges on the global agenda, " and each year the event has a broad theme within which to frame the sessions.

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On 5 June 1972, in the Swedish capital, they began to build their response, in the form of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the first UN summit on the environment, and the event that really put the issue on the global political agenda.

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The event brings together some of the biggest names in social media innovation and its agenda showcases a number of data services which, like Highlight, attempt to steer us away from the vagaries of chance.

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The July 16-18 event brought together college students from across the country to learn about the radical Islamist agenda and how they can do their part to combat it.

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Another side event on recognizing indigenous and local knowledge and building synergies with science (Item 5 of the agenda) will also be organized by UNESCO.

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The event was hyped as containing a major announcement for the organization which has come under fire for its agenda as the number and severity of mass shootings continues to rise in America.

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