Calendar of events for First Committee 2025

This is a indicative schedule. We are posting information about side events (in-person, hybrid, or online) as details become available. To have your First Committee side event included here, please email [email protected].

Calendar last updated 21 October 2025

When	What	Where	Who
3 October 9:00 - 10:00 EST	Group of Scientific and Technical Experts on Nuclear Disarmament Verification See event recording here.	Virtual event Register here.	Organised by NPSGlobal Foundation and VERTIC (contact: [email protected])
9 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Advancing NPT Article VI Goals as New START Expires	Conference room D Register here.	Organised by Austria, Arms Control Association and DeepCuts (contact: [email protected])
10 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Strengthening the Women, Peace and Security agenda through arms control and disarmament	Conference room 9	Organised by UNIDIR and Malta
15 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Advancing the UN Global Intergovernmental Points of Contact (PoC) Directory	Conference room 6	Organised by UNIDIR (contact: mailto:[email protected])
15 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Scientists and Nuclear Weapons: Meeting Today’s Challenges	Conference Room A	Organised by Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security and Austria
15 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	The Role of Export Controls in Strengthening Global Prosperity	Conference Room 8	Organized by Panama and the United States (contact: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected])
16 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Responsible By Design: A Conversation with the Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military Domain	Conference Room 6 RSVP	Organized by the Netherlands, GC REAIM and Hague Center for Strategic Studies (contact: [email protected])
16 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Gender & Nuclear Weapons	Conference Room 9	Kazakhstan, Kiribati and Malta (contact: Christian N. Ciobanu, [email protected])
17 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	The Future Won’t Wait: Youth Policy Pathways on Nuclear Weapons and Emerging Technologies	Conference Room 8	Organised by UNODA (contact: [email protected])
17 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Briefing on the ICT workstream of the Global Initiative to Galvanize Political Commitment to International Humanitarian Law	Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN, 633 3rd Avenue, 29th floor.	RSVP to [email protected] by Tuesday, October 14th, 2025, with a limit of one member per delegation.
22 October 08:30 - 09:45 EST	Making the Vital Connection: Disability and Disarmament in the UN First Committee	ICRC Delegation to the United Nations, 801 2nd Avenue, 18th Floor	Disability Rights and Disarmament Initiative, Cape Breton University and the International Committee of the Red Cross (contact: Sean Howard, [email protected])
22 October 10:00 EST	The Scientific Future of Nuclear War	Online Register here	Youth Fusion (contact: [email protected])
22 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Secretary-General’s Campaign on Humanitarian Disarmament and Mine Action	Conference Room 7	Organized by UNODA and UNMAS (contact: [email protected])
23 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Briefing by the Chair of the CCW GGE on LAWS	Conference Room E	Organized by the Netherlands (contact: [email protected])
23 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Silencing the Guns by 2030: Lessons and Perspectives from Africa Amnesty Month Implementation	Conference Room 7 and Online RSVP for online participation	Organized by Ireland, Germany and Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union (contact: [email protected]; [email protected])
24 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Charting the Road to the 2026 Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions	Conference Room A	Organized by the Philippines (contact: [email protected])
24 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Unlocking Progress on PAROS: Innovative Proposals Towards a Global Space Security Regime	Conference Room D	Organized by the United Kingdom and Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) (contact: [email protected])
27 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Legal and Humanitarian Implications of Bias in Military AI	Conference Room 9	Organized by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN
27 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	UNIDIR “Science and Technology Watchtower” Project Launch Event	Conference Room 8 RSVP	Organised by UNIDIR (contact: mailto:[email protected])
27 October 12:00-1:15 EST	Strengthening regional and national weapons and ammunition management in Africa	12:00-1:15 Virtual event RSVP	Organised by UNIDIR (contact: [email protected])
27 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	No longer science fiction: Emerging technologies and emerging threats in space	Conference Room E	Organised by UNIDIR (contact: [email protected])
27 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Science and technology monitoring in the context of disarmament	Conference Room 8 RSVP	Organized by UNIDIR (contact: [email protected])
28 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Artificial Intelligence proliferation	Conference Room 9	Organised by UNIDIR (contact: mailto:[email protected])
28 October 13:15 - 14:45 EST	World Future Policy Award winners: Effective policies for Peace and Future Generations	Online and in-personBahá'í International Community UN Office, 866 UN Plaza, New YorkRegistration required	Organized by the World Future Council. Cosponsored by All For One and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (contact: [email protected])
28 October 13:14 - 14:30 EST	Towards Multilateral Policy on Autonomous Weapon Systems	Conference Room A	Organised by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN, and the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the UN
29 October 13:15 - 14:30 EST	Empowering Change: The Role of Women in WMD Non-Proliferation and Disarmament	Conference Room 8 RSVP	Organized by Slovenia and UNIDIR (contact: [email protected])
30 October 12:00-1:15 EST	Pathways to nuclear disarmament verification	Virtual event RSVP here	Organised by UNIDIR (contact: [email protected])