2025 ECOSOC Partnership Forum, 5 February 2025

Registration for non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders is open! 

Deadline: 17 January 2025 

The 2025 Partnership Forum of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) will be held on Wednesday, 5 February, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm at the United Nations headquarters in New York.  

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Info on ECOSOC Youth Forum 2022

Register by 7 April 2022

ECOSOC Youth Forum 2022

“COVID-19 recovery: Youth taking action for a sustainable future”

WHAT?

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum is taking place on 19 and 20 April 2022 in a virtual format. The Forum will provide a platform for young people to engage in a dialogue with Member States and other actors on concrete actions to rebuild from COVID-19 and to advance towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Decade of Action.

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Access to the UN Headquarters complex in 2022

This message is to inform all NGOs that are currently in consultative status with ECOSOC about the new requirements for obtaining UN grounds passes in New York in 2022, following our earlier message regarding access to the United Nations Headquarters complex this year.  

We urge you to please read the instructions carefully before submitting requests for passes since the requirements have been modified to align with the mandatory requirements/guidance of the host state due to the prevalence of the Covid-19 virus. 

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Message from UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

After careful review, the temporary restrictions limiting civil society access to the United Nations Headquarters Complex (UNHQ) due to the COVID-19 pandemic are being gradually lifted.

Effective immediately, civil society representatives are invited to participate in ad-hoc meetings and events in-person with the issuance of Special Events Tickets. Access to such meetings and events, and the issuance of the Special Event Tickets, will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the event organizers and the relevant intergovernmental bodies. Details of participation and the processes necessary to gain access to each meeting and event will be communicated upon registration.

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Invitation to the Side Event at the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum - by the Youth Wing of the GCAP Social Justice Task Force on DWD

6th April 2021 - 9am New York time (EDT) - Invitation to the Side Event at the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum - by the Youth Wing of the GCAP Social Justice Task Force on DWD

I would like to invite you to the Official Side Event at the UN ECOSOC Youth MGOS jointly by the Youth Wing of the Stakeholder Group of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent  and the Global Forum on Communities Discriminated by Work and Descent (GFoD).

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ECOSOC Youth Forum: Join Open Side-Events

What?

The ECOSOC Youth Forum is bringing together young leaders worldwide to engage in candid dialogue with representatives of UN Member States.

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ECOSOC Youth Forum applications extended to Mar. 24th

ECOSOC Youth Forum 

(7-8 April, 2021) is coming up, and the deadline for registrations have been extended to March 24th, 2021. If you are a youth led or youth focused organization, or you have members from your organizations that could be interested, please consider to join and let them know. 

About ECOSOC Youth Forum 2021 

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum will be held on 7 and 8 April 2021. It will be a virtual event bringing on board young people from around the world.

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Urgent: General Assembly Special Session in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 3-4 December

Please note that we have received the following information on the above event.

The portal for applications for the special-accreditation of ECOSOC non-accredited CSOs for the UNGASS in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (03-04 December 2020) has been opened yesterday 12 November. 

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General Assembly resolution on theme for 2021 ECOSOC/HLPF and related SDGs

After lengthy consultations, which began last February, the UN General Assembly resolution entitled “Review process of the implementation of General Assembly resolutions 67/290 and 70/299 on the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level and resolution 72/305 on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council” was adopted through the silence procedure on 3 August. It provides the theme and lists the nine SDGs that will be reviewed in depth at the 2021 session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) and UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

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Decision on theme for ECOSOC/HLPF in 2021 and subset of SDGs for 2021 HLPF adopted

The silence procedure on the theme for ECOSOC/HLPF in 2021 and subset of SDGs that will be discussed at 2021 HLPF has passed silence procedure and has thus been adopted. Here is the link to the letter of the President of the General Assembly in this regard. also attached is the unedited text of the decision for ease of reference.