The 2011 observance of the International Day of Families, with a theme: "Confronting family poverty and social exclusion" is organized by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in cooperation with the New York NGO Committee on the Family. A panel discussion will take place on 12 May (1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.) in Conference room 6 (NLB) at UN Headquarters in New York. All are invited to attend.