Mandela Peace Summit, Global Goals, Youth and Yemen
As the United Nations enters its biggest weeks of the year with a plethora of events, speakers and leaders’ meetings, UN News will be preparing a daily guide to help you navigate what’s going on and keep abreast of the world-changing decisions that are made in the hallways of UN headquarters in New York.
Here’s what you need to know for Monday 24 September (please note all timings are based on the New York time zone, Eastern Daylight Time, or EDT):
Uniting for peace
• Setting the tone a day before the General Debate
starts at the General Assembly, the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit
will be held on Monday at 9:30 am, marking
the centenary of the birth of South Africa’s first
democratically-elected President and global civil rights
icon. Member States are expected to adopt a historic
Political Declaration declaring 2019-2028 the “Nelson
Mandela Decade of Peace,” and calling on all world leaders
to “redouble efforts to pursue international peace and
security, development and human rights”.
>> Follow the event via livestream or via
Twitter with #Mandela100.
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Advancing the
SDGs
• For those interested in sustainable
development, there’s a lot going on today,
starting with a high-level meeting on Financing the 2030 Agenda at
3pm, bringing together some of the UN’s highest
officials, including Secretary-General António Guterres and
the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), Heads of State and Government, and private sector
leaders.
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• In parallel, the annual UN Global Compact Leaders
Summit returns, focusing once again on
strengthening the public-private dialogue to achieve the
2030 Agenda. With an impressive list of speakers, the event begins at 9
am and can be livestreamed here.
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• All
week long, keep an eye on the SDG Media Zone — an ongoing
series of live interviews, panel discussions and other
digital content — which, starting today, will showcase
some of the initiatives that the global community is working
on to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You
can watch, like, share and follow the buzz
using #SDGLive.
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• Finally, with
1.8 billion children and adolescents in the world, UN
Secretary-General António Guterres has made it a priority
for the UN System to reset its focus on youth. On Monday, at
12 pm, he will officially launch the UN’s “Youth
Strategy”, to empower youth across the world.
Watch live here and follow the
conversation with #Youth2030.
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Focus on
humanitarian issues
• The day will also offer a number
of humanitarian-related events including a high-level
meeting on the Humanitarian Response in Yemen,
at 1:15 pm, with UN humanitarian chief Mark
Lowcock. As the country is now in its fourth year
of intensified conflict, with unprecedented levels of
humanitarian need, the world must not look away. You can watch it live here.
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• Another event, happening at the same time
but available to view later, will focus specifically on
Protecting the health and rights of women
and girls in Yemen and South
Sudan.
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• Finally, a high-level side event on
the possibility of establishing a Global Compact on Refugees will
start at 10 am.
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further...
The above is only a curated selection of high profile events. For a comprehensive list of everything you can watch online, this calendar should provide the answers.
And if you feel a bit lost and haven’t quite caught up with everything that has been going on ahead of the 73rd General Assembly so far, here are a few ways of catching up fast:
• WATCH the Secretary-General’s 30-minute Facebook
Live interview on
Sunday
•
• READ our interview
with the new President of the General Assembly as she
explains her “dare to deliver”
vision
•
• LEARN 6 things you might not know about this
year’s UN General
Assembly
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