SPECIAL EVENT

Installation ceremony of flags of the countries of the newly-elected non-permanent members to serve on the United Nations Security Council for the term 2019-2020 (A/RES/1991 (XVIII)). The event was organized by the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations.

Panel discussion with the winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights

Event to mark The Global Compact on Refugees entitled “A Model for Greater Solidarity and Cooperation” (A/RES/71/1) (organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR))

Diwali Stamp “The Power of One” Award Ceremony (A/RES/69/250) (co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Belarus, Georgia and India, and the Diwali Foundation USA, Inc., in collaboration with the Permanent Missions of Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Greece, France, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Oman, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam, the Permanent Observer of State of Palestine, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)-New York)

Event entitled “Relevance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Today’s Cutting-Edge Human Rights Issues of Inequality, Climate Change and New Technologies” (A/RES/217(III) and A/RES/423(V)) (on the occasion of the Human Rights Day and the Seventieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) (organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)

Launch of Campaign: Leaders for Peace On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (organized by the Permanent Mission of Italy, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Rondine Cittadella della Pace)

Side event on strengthening preparedness against natural disasters.

Event entitled “Seventieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime”

Launch of the Eavan Boland Poem: Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women.

Event entitled “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Its Foundations, Achievements and Violations” (A/RES/217(III)) (co-organized by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See and ADF International)