UN General Assembly resolution “International cooperation to ensure global access to medicines, vaccines and medical equipment to face COVID-19”

A General Assembly Resolution “International cooperation to ensure global access to medicines, vaccines and medical equipment to face COVID-19” (A/74/L.56) was adopted on 20 April under silence procedure. It states that the current crisis calls for:

Click to read more ...

Please take our 5-minute COVID-19 Survey, in 60+ languages

Please see a note below from SDG Advocate Jeffrey Sachs inviting you to participate in some global COVID-19 research! Please feel free to forward widely.  

Click to read more ...

Online briefing on ECOSOC and HLPF

H.E. Ms. Susan Eckey, Ambassador for ECOSOC in the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in New York, will hold an informal briefing to inform all ECOSOC accredited NGOs and Major Groups and other Stakeholders of the upcoming ECOSOC activities.

Click to read more ...

Deadline (27 April 2020) : Open Call for Oral and Written Statements for the 2020 ECOSOC High Level Segment

The Office for Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has recently published on its website an open call for oral and written statements for the 2020 ECOSOC High Level Segment (HLS) for NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC. 

Click to read more ...

1 June 2020 is the deadline to apply for consultative status with the UN. Please spread the word!

NGOs interested in applying for ECOSOC consultative status should submit their application and required documents on or before the deadline 1 June 2020. 

Click to read more ...

Invitation to UN World Data Forum webinar: DATA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 – WHAT DO WE LEARN?

The United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) team is pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar on “DATA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 – WHAT DO WE LEARN?” on Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 10:30 am (EDT).

Click to read more ...

The ‘new normal’ in a (post-)Covid-19 world…

It has been over a month now since what has come to be called lockdown has taken place around the world in response to COVID-19 – requiring most people to stay at home, with defined exceptions, in order to impose social distancing on the entire population –

Click to read more ...

IPPF Statement on WHO de-funding by the US administration

The International Planned Parenthood Federation deeply condemns the United States of America Administration’s decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Click to read more ...

COVID-19 – US President decides to halt funding for WHO

When WHO is working full time to lead the world’s efforts against COVID-19, Donald Trump decides to halt funding for the organization, saying that it has “failed in its basic duty.”

Click to read more ...

2020 HLPF guidelines and application for side-events and for exhibitions is now open

Currently UN DESA is continuing as if HLPF 2020 will take place as normal this summer and has launched the side event application.

Click to read more ...