The United Nations International School (UNIS) will hold its graduation ceremony in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 2 June.

United Nations Peacekeeping today launched a special photo exhibition at Headquarters in New York to honour the service and sacrifice of uniformed and civilian peacekeepers as it marks its seventy-fifth anniversary.

On Tuesday, 11 April 2023, the United Nations Department of Global Communications and the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect will open the exhibition “Stories of Survival and Remembrance – A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention” at United Nations Headquarters, New York at 6 p.m. EDT. The exhibition will be on display until 15 June 2023.

The United Nations will observe World Autism Awareness Day (2 April) with a global virtual event on the theme “Transformation: Toward a Neuro-Inclusive World for All”.  The event will take place virtually, on Sunday 2 April, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST.

Students of the United Nations International School will hold their forty-seventh annual UNIS-UN conference in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 14 and 15 March.

In observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery is pleased to partner with the Rijksmuseum and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations to host the exhibition entitled Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery on display from 27 February to 30 March at the United Nations Headquarters Visitors’ Lobby.

On Friday, 27 January, the United Nations will observe the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust under the theme “Home and Belonging”.  The memorial ceremony will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST in the General Assembly Hall, United Nations Headquarters, New York.

The United Nations Palestinian Rights Committee will organize a virtual event on the margins of the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women on “Impact of forced displacement on Palestinian women” on 23 March from 10 a.m. to noon, via WebEx.

The United Nations annual ceremony marking the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust will take place virtually this year, and will be livestreamed worldwide on 27 January at 11 a.m.

The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme will host an online panel discussion on medical ethics during and in response to the Holocaust, as well as educational initiatives that draw on the history of the Holocaust to develop ethical leadership in the contemporary context.