Calendar of events for First Committee 2020
Due to COVID-19, in-person side events at the UN headquarters in New York will not be permitted in 2020. If your organisation or mission is planning a virtual or off-site in-person side event, please email us at [email protected] to have it posted on this page.
Calendar last updated 27 October 2020. See also the events calendar published by UNODA.
When | What | Where | Who |
13 October |
New horizons for victim assistance and environmental remediation: the TPNW's positive obligations |
Permanent Mission of Kiribati, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic, Centre for International Security and Policy, and ICAN France | |
14 October |
Nuclear risk: Which scenarios most worry us? | Online | UNIDIR |
15 October |
IEDs: Past, present, and future | Online | Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) |
19 October |
Innovations in life sciences | Online | UNIDIR |
20 October |
Nukes, climate change, black lives matter: what's the connection? | Online |
NYU IR Society,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Peace Action New York State, Peace Boat US, Pathways To Peace, Prospect Hill Foundation, WCAPS, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York
|
21 October |
New technological opportunities to bolster treaty compliance | Online | UNIDIR |
22 October |
Multilateralism and armed drones: escaping the gridlock | Online | Stimson Center and PAX |
22 October |
Launch of ME WMD Free Zone Documents Depository | Online | UNIDIR |
22 October |
40 years Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons: past, present and future perspectives | Online | Permanent Mission of the Netherlands and UNODA |
23 October |
The TPNW–a game changer in nuclear disarmament | Online | Permanent Missions of Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa and Thailand, and ICAN |
23 October |
Report launch on military expenditures and humanitarian disarmament | Online | Nonviolence International Canada |
26 October |
Webinar on technological aspects of LAWS | Online | UNIDIR and UNODA |
27 October |
Webinar on military aspects of LAWS | Online | UNIDIR and UNODA |
28 October |
Webinar on legal aspects of LAWS | Online | UNIDIR and UNODA |
28 October |
Connecting the Women, Peace & Security agenda, and the disarmament agendas | Online | UNIDIR |
29 October |
Transparency and reporting in the Arms Trade Treaty: Trends and challenges in the age of Covid-19 | Online | Control Arms and the Stimson Centre |
29 October |
Launch of the UNODA briefing paper: Gender dimensions of the life-cycle management of ammunition | Online | UNODA and Small Arms Survey |
29 October |
The state of ballistic missile proliferation today | Online | The Foundation for Strategic Research |
30 October |
Supporting gender mainstreamed policies, programmes and actions in the fight against small arms trafficking and misuse, in line with the Women, Peace and Security agenda | Online | European Union and UNODA |
2 November |
Arms Trade Treaty update: Report from CSP6 and prospects for CSP7 | Online | Control Arms |
3 November |
Navigating disarmament education: the Peace Boat Model | Online | Peace Boat and the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs |