The Week Ahead at the United Nations

5 August 2019

Monday, 5 August

World Breastfeeding Week continues (through 7 August)

Meetings in Geneva:

• 71st Session of the International Law Commission(through 9 August)
• 67th session of the Committee against Torture of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (through 9 August)
• Meeting of Experts to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction(through 9 August)
• Conference on Disarmament through 13 September)

Wednesday, 7 August

UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (through 9 August)

Thursday, 8 August

The Security Council is holds consultations on Peace and Security in Africa in the morning; the discusses UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, with troop-contributing countries.

DESA hosts an online commemoration of International Youth Day 2019.

Friday, 9 August

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples includes an event DESA organizes at UNHQ highlighting indigenous languages.

In case you missed it:

• Week in Review (video)
• Do something to stop the carnage in Syria, humanitarian chief urges Security Council
• Security Council, demands end to violence hampering response to Ebola outbreak
• Dangerous heat, tensions: “Not the summer of our youth,” Secretary-General warns
• Migration and the climate crisis: searching for solutions
• UNICEF report finds record number of children killed and maimed in conflict
• UN chief laments ending of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
• Nigeria’s 10-year conflict is far from over, OCHA says

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