Aug 05, 2019
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