Welcome to the United Nations 
-
03:00 pm - 06:00 pm America/New York
Trusteeship Council Chamber
BackgroundThe Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) was held from 18 to 21 June 2024, in Kigali, Rwanda, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 76/217, 77/246, and 77/329. The Conference undertook a…
-
UNHQ
A plenary meeting of ECOSOC on outstanding vacancies in ECOSOC subsidiary and related bodies under agenda item 4: ‘Elections, nominations, confirmations and appointments’ was organized on Tuesday, 5 December. ECOSOC Members were elected to seven…
-
The Second Committee of the General Assembly engaged in a joint meeting with ECOSOC on Tuesday, 10 October (10 a.m.), on the topic of “Leveraging Commodities for Sustainable Economic Development.” Organized by the Department of Economic and…
-
UNHQ
The 2023 SDG Summit took place on 18-19 September 2023 in New York. It marked the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals with high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions…
-
UNHQ
-
UNHQ
The Management Segment of ECOSOC took place on 25-26 July 2023. The programme of the Management Segment meetings was structured around actions that ECOSOC was expected to take on economic, social, environmental, health, and related matters,…
-
UNHQ
When The 2023 High-level Segment (HLS) of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) included the three-day ministerial meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) from Monday to Wednesday, 17 - 19 July 2023, and a…
-
UNHQ
-
10:00 am - 01:00 pm America/New York
ECOSOC Chamber
Date: Thursday, 29 June 2023 Time: 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Location: ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New YorkThe President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), H.E. Ms. Lachezara Stoeva, and the Chair of the…
-
Geneva
The 2023 ECOSOC meeting to discuss the transition from relief to development was held on 20 June in Geneva, under the theme “Transition from relief to development: taking action to promote resilience, sustainable solutions and recovery in climate-…
-
The Economic and Social Council convened a special meeting on “Saving Lives: Addressing the urgent food security needs of Haiti” on 16 June 2023 at the UN Headquarters. Food insecurity is of great concern in Haiti, where the…
-
UNHQ
The Management Segment of ECOSOC took place on 7-8 June 2023. The programme of the Management Segment meetings was structured around action that ECOSOC was expected to take on economic, social, environmental, health, and related matters, including…
-
UNHQ
The 2023 Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) operational activities for development segment (OAS) was held from 23 to 25 May 2023.The ECOSOC operational activities for development segment meets annually to provide overall coordination and…
-
UNHQ
The eighth annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) was held from 3 to 4 May 2023. The theme for the STI Forum 2023 was: “Science, technology and innovation for accelerating the recovery from the…
-
UNHQ
The Economic and Social Council convened a special meeting on “Unleashing the transformative power of SDG16: Improving governance and reducing corruption” on 2 May 2023. The meeting revisited the impact of corruption on the achievement of the…
-
UNHQ
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum took place from 25 to 27 April 2023 in a hybrid format.The Forum provided a platform for young people to engage in a dialogue with Member States and other actors to voice their views, concerns,…
-
The ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up (FfD Forum), which was held from 17 to 20 April 2023, is an intergovernmental process with universal participation mandated to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (Addis Agenda) and other…
-
UNHQ
The ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up (FfD Forum), to be held on 17-20 April 2023, is an intergovernmental process with universal participation mandated to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (Addis Agenda) and other financing for…
-
UNHQ
The 2023 ECOSOC Special Meeting on International Cooperation in Tax Matters took place on 31 March. The Special Meeting further advanced policy dialogue on using tax as a policy lever for sustainable development and making the international tax…
-
UNHQ
The 2023 Development Cooperation Forum (DCF), held on 14-15 March 2023, emphasized the human dimension of development cooperation, focusing on the lives and livelihoods of people that development cooperation was meant to serve. It spotlighted the…
-
UNHQ
The 2023 ECOSOC Coordination Segment will take place on 1-2 February 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters. The Coordination Segment of ECOSOC was created by the United Nations General Assembly in June 2021 as an essential part of a…
-
UNHQ
The 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum took place on Tuesday, 31 January 2023, at the United Nations Headquarters. Every year at the Partnership Forum, ECOSOC and other UN entities collaborate to bring together some of the most influential leaders from…
-
UNHQ
The Economic and Social Council convened a special meeting on “Social and economic measures to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity” on 24 January 2023 in the ECOSOC Chamber at the UN Headquarters. The…