Webinar: Building Back Better - Natural Capital Accounting for a Green Recovery
14th Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS)
14th Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS) (3-4 and 7 December) will bring together gender statisticians and experts to review on-going national, regional and global initiatives to improve evidence for gender-relevant policies, including the development and implementation of international statistical methods in the context of COVID-19; discuss and review on-going workstreams of the IAEG-GS Advisory Groups; take stock of the latest assessments of progress towards gender equality at the sub-national, national, regional and global levels, as presented in T
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Theme for IDPD 2020: 鈥淏uilding Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World鈥.
Online event Good Practices on SDG Implementation: Inspiring Examples to Drive Change
Online event (2 December, 9-10 am) will be convened virtually by .
Joint informal high-level meeting of the GA and ECOSOC to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development
Joint informal high-level meeting of the GA and ECOSOC to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development (1 December, held in-person in the GA Hall, 11:30 am 鈥 1:00 pm). The anniversary is an opportunity to reset inclusive social policies, based on the lessons learned, including during the COVID-19 crisis, and to help countries build back better with greater resilience to meet the future challenges for achieving Sustainable Development Goals for all.
Virtual seminars on the impact of COVID-19 on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in CARICOM countries
(1-4 December) will address international standards for civil registration and vital statistics and its implementation in countries; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations and maintenance of civil registration and production of vital statistics; the short-term and long-term consequences in the recording of vital events due to the pandemic, and ensuring universal civil registratio
Regional capacity development event 鈥淪ustainable Water and Energy Solutions for a Resilient Recovery from COVID-19"
(1 December, 7:00 - 8:15 am), organized by , will feature an interactive panel discussion with experts and practitioners from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, and India, who will share their experiences and discuss how integrated water and energy solutions can best support the region for a resilient recovery from Covid-19.
World Toilet Day
World Toilet Day is a United Nations Observance that celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation.
Gender Equality: a Data and Policy Dialogue
Seventh Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics
The Seventh Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics (EGES), organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), will be held virtually on 10, 11, 12, 17 and 19 November 2020.
Expert Group Meeting on the United Nations Demographic Yearbook System
The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official demographic and social statistics on a range of topics. In terms of demographic statistics, since 1948, data have been collected annually from national statistical offices, and published in the United Nations Demographic Yearbook Collection.
Internet Governance Forum
With half of the global population under lockdown and with 90 per cent of students out of school at one point in 2020, Internet has become our classroom, our workplace, our meeting space and even our dancefloor. The is gathering this month to ensure that the Internet continues to connect us and not drive us apart.
UN@75: A Conversation on Achievements of, and Challenges for, the United Nations
World Statistics Day
The third World Statistics Day will be celebrated around the globe on 20 October 2020 with the theme 鈥淐onnecting the world with data we can trust鈥. This theme reflects on the importance of trust, authoritative data, innovation and the public good in national statistical systems.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to 17 October 1987. On that day, over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocad茅ro in Paris, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948, to honour the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger. They proclaimed that poverty is a violation of human rights and affirmed the need to come together to ensure that these rights are respected. These convictions are inscribed in a commemorative stone unveiled on this day.
Opening of the 75th session of the Third Committee
The Third Committee of the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, is chaired by聽H.E. Katalin Bogyay (Hungary).
The General Assembly allocates to the Third Committee, agenda items relating to a range of social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues that affect people all over the world.
75th session of the Second Committee
The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, is chaired by聽His Excellency Amrit Bahadur Rai of Nepal.
International Day of Older Persons
On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly (by聽) designated 1 October the International Day of Older Persons.
This was preceded by initiatives such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing 鈥 which was adopted by the 1982 World Assembly on Ageing 鈥 and endorsed later that year by the 缅北禁地General Assembly.
Biodiversity summit
The Summit on Biodiversity will be convened under the theme 鈥淯rgent Action on Biodiversity for Sustainable Development.鈥 The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will assist the President of the General Assembly in the preparation of the Summit.