Monday 1 July

• The Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary-General will be in the United Arab Emirates for the Climate Preparatory Meeting. 

• The General Assembly will hold an informal meeting to hear a briefing by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar.

• Perú serves as President of the Security Council this month. Its Permanent Representative, Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadro, briefs reporters about plans for its presidency.
• ·Hoesung Lee, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is among the speakers at the World Conference of Science Journalists, which begins today in Europe.

Tuesday 2 July

• Agnès Callamard, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, discusses her report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. (Brookings)
• The General Assembly meets to discuss implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for the decade 2014-2024, which focuses on the needs of some 440 million residents in 32 countries who lack direct, territorial access to the sea. Their dependence on other countries contributes to their challenges, including high poverty rates.

Wednesday 3 July

• There are no events scheduled at UNHQ today.

Thursday 4 July

• In observance of United States of America’s Independence Day, UNHQ will be closed.

Friday 5 July

• There are no events scheduled at UNHQ today.

In case you missed it:

·       For This Week at the UN in 60 Seconds, watch here.

• The leaders of 11 global humanitarian organizations warned that 3 million civilians in Syria’s Idlib province are on “the brink of a humanitarian nightmare unlike anything we have seen this century.” Watch here.
• UN Women launched Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World. 

• The UN Office on Drugs and Crime issued its annual report, finding two-thirds of drug-related deaths in 2017 were caused by opioids. 

• UN-GLOBE, an inter-agency group that combats homophobia, biphobia and transphobia throughout the UN system, joined New York’s Pride Day celebration.
• UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech . It aims to enhance UN efforts to address root causes and drivers of hate speech and enable effective UN responses to the impact of hate speech on societies.
• International Days:
  • International Day of the Tropics – 29 June
  • World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought – 24 June
  • International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict – 26 June

For more information:

• For a complete schedule: http://bit.ly/2iQpxx7.
• To find out which events will be webcast see: http://unwebtv.live/schedule.
• UN News Centre: https://news.un.org/en/
• UN Secretary-General: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/secretary-generals-speeches
• UN Security Council: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/
• UN Spokesperson: http://www.un.org/sg/en/spokesperson