Events

Events

10 October 2017

PROGRAMME

Date: Tuesday, 10 October 2017 at 1:15 – 2.30

Venue: Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters, New York

Audience: High-level government representatives, UN agencies and civil society.

Format: Panel presentations followed by Q&A

Co-sponsors: Permanent Missions of Chile, Sweden and Thailand to the United Nations, Arigatou International, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children

Panel:

• H. E. MR. Cristian Barros, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile

06 March 2017 to 10 March 2017

Annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child

Theme: Protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
 
Date and venue:6 March 2017, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 3 - 6 p.m., Palais des Nations, Room XX, Geneva
(will be broadcast live and archived on http://webtv.un.org

Annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child concept note

 

Presentation of the Annual Report

Theme:Presentation of Annual Report to the Human Rights Council

28 November 2016 to 29 November 2016

rime prevention and resocialization of children in contact with the criminal justice system

Santiago de Chile, 28th and 29th of November 2016

Conference website: http://justiciaadolescente.unicef.cl/

14 October 2016

“Ending the Torment: tackling bullying from the schoolyard to cyberspace”

Launch and Panel Presentation

General Assembly Resolution 69/158 requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to its seventy-first session on protecting children from bullying which is addressed by the Third Committee of the General Assembly (A/71/213).

12 October 2016

SRSG Santos Pais presents her Annual Report to the General Assembly.

You can follow the meeting here: http://webtv.un.org/

The present annual report provides, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 69/157, an overview of major developments promoted by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children to sustain and scale up efforts to safeguard children’s freedom from violence.

27 September 2016

The side event will mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Study on Violence against Children (2006), examining achievements made and identifying emerging challenges and opportunities for accelerating progress towards the elimination of violence against children by strongly promoting the incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the work of the UN Geneva based Human Rights monitoring bodies and mechanisms, such as the Human Rights Council and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. In particular, the event will: