Past events
January 2017
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High Level Dialogue: Building Sustainable Peace for all: Synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustaining Peace
24 January 2017
The event will discuss the mutually reinforcing linkages between Sustaining Peace and the 2030 Agenda, including at country level and ways in which to leverage them optimally in an integrated framework that can assist Member States, United Nations bodies and entities, civil society and other stakeholders to coordinate and enhance their efforts.
December 2016
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High-Level Ministerial Meeting on Health Employment and Economic Growth: From Recommendations to Action
14 - 15 December 2016
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Preparing for 2017 Review of the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons: How to Bring Partners and Ideas Together?
5 December 2016
In preparation for the high-level meeting to review the progress achieved in the implementation of the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (October 2017) this discussion will provide some preliminary ideas and practical guidance on how to improve international efforts to combat human trafficking, including modern slavery.
October 2016
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UN Special Rapporteur’s fourth report on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association
21 October 2016
On October 21, following the official presentation of the report, human rights activists, trade unionists, representatives of UN agencies and other members of civil society from around the world will gather at UN headquarters in New York to discuss this seminal report with Kiai
September 2016
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71th UN General Assembly
Summit for Refugees and Migrants
19 September 2016
High-level summit hosted at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly to address large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim of bringing countries together behind a more humane and coordinated approach.
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71st session of the UN General Assembly
13 - 26 September 2016
July 2016
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Panel discussion on Partnerships to End Forced Labour in Supply Chains
19 July 2016
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The 2016 High-level segment of ECOSOC: : "Implementing the post-2015 development agenda: moving from commitments to results"
18 - 22 July 2016
The 2016 High-level segment of ECOSOC will be chaired by Ambassador Oh Joon, President of ECOSOC. It represents the culmination of ECOSOC’s 2016 cycle, and addresses the Council’s overall annual theme, “Implementing the post-2015 development agenda: moving from commitments to results”.
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Panel discussion on skills development to improve youth employment
15 July 2016
Joint event organized by the ILO, the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Permanent Mission of Portugal to the UN, Office of the Secretary-General Special Envoy for Youth, UNESCO.
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UNGA High-Level Thematic Debate on Human Rights
12 - 13 July 2016
The event takes place in the context of the 50th anniversary of the International Human Rights Covenants, the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development and the process to select and appoint the next United Nations Secretary-General. It will be an opportunity to take an overarching view of the human rights situation in our world today, reinforce the foundations for human rights and how action to realize human rights can contribute to progress on peace and security and sustainable development and vice-versa, as well as highlight ways to strengthen the United Nations’ role in this area and identify actions to unleash rapid improvements in the realization of human rights globally.
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UNGA High-level Thematic Debate: Human Rights
12 - 13 July 2016
The third debate will focus on the United Nations' role in the field of human rights, including in relation to governance, the rule of law, gender equality, and institution building. Taking into account the unprecedented scale of global humanitarian challenges, particular attention will be placed on addressing the needs of the millions of displaced women, men, and children affected by conflicts and disasters, particularly refugees.
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ECOSOC High-level political forum on sustainable development: "Ensuring no one is left behind"
11 - 20 July 2016
The High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development is the United Nations central platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015.
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ECOSOC Dialogue on Longer-Term Positioning of UN Development System - Session 8 - Conclusion
1 July 2016
The dialogue process consists of both formal and informal sessions over an 18-month period, and its outcome is expected to be a key input to the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the UN system (QCPR), to be issued in August 2016.
June 2016
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UN Global Compact Leaders Summit: The New Era of Business
22 - 23 June 2016
The Summit 2016 will provide a stage to encourage business action on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These new global goals are set to be a major driver of the markets of tomorrow and can provide impetus for a wave of sustainable products, services and business innovations.
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ECOSOC Dialogue on Longer-Term Positioning of UN Development System - Retreat 3
17 - 18 June 2016
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17th Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea Seventeenth meeting
13 - 17 June 2016
With the theme of ""Marine debris, plastics and micro-plastics", will consider developments in ocean affairs and the law of the sea and identify areas where coordination and cooperation at the intergovernmental and inter-agency levels should be enhanced.
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ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meeting
1 - 3 June 2016
May 2016
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Resumed Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
23 - 27 May 2016
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ECOSOC Dialogue on Longer-Term Positioning of UN Development System: Workshop 7 - Linkages and Proposals
20 May 2016
This ECOSOC Dialogue, last in a series of seven, will consider emerging interlinkages between the 6 ECOSOC Dialogue areas; and Options/proposals emerging from the workshops as called for in ECOSOC resolution 2014/14.
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Harnessing Migration and Refugee Flows in Support of Sustainable Urbanisation
18 May 2016