Adoption of indigenous rights declaration ‘major victory’ for United Nations

in long history of developing human rights standards, says chair of UN Forum

Peacebuilding Commission

Organizational Committee

3^rd Meeting (AM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

AM & PM Meetings

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS ON ENTIRE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY

RICH NATIONS, TO HELP DISADVANTAGED COUNTRIES COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

‘Equitable, Fair, Ambitious Global Deal’ Needed to Match Scale

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

106^th Meeting (PM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

AM & PM Meetings

WARNING AGAINST ‘GLOOM AND DOOM’ SCENARIOS, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS TOOLS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE

 

Delegates Outline Problems, Prescribe Solutions

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

AM & PM Meetings

‘CARBON NEUTRAL’ GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE TO LINK GROWING SCIENTIFIC

CONSENSUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE WITH NATIONAL ACTION

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

105^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RECOMMENDATIONS ON PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS,

INCLUDING ‘UNITED NATIONS STANDARDS OF CONDUCT’

 

Also Elects Assembly Vice-Presidents, JIU Members;

Sixty-first General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (PM)

General committee recommends against inclusion of new agenda item

on ‘contemporary forms of xenophobia’

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fourth Committee

30^th Meeting* (AM)

Recommendations on Peacekeeping operations approved by fourth committee,

Including proposed ‘United Nations standards of conduct’