Note to Correspondents

The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), in partnership with the United States-based Council on Foreign Relations, will host a discussion on fracking on 16 July at 1:15 p.m. in Conference Room 4 of the North Lawn Building.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson will open the fourth annual High-level Stakeholders Meeting of the Peacebuilding Fund on Tuesday, 24 June, as part of United Nations Peacebuilding week.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson will address members of the Peacebuilding Commission at the opening of its first annual session, to be held in the Trusteeship Council Chamber from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, 23 June.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch the first Victims of Terrorism Support Portal, prior to the General Assembly’s high-level “Interactive Dialogue on Addressing Conditions Conducive to the Spread of Terrorism”, to be held on 11 June.

A total of 60 college and university students from 26 countries have been invited to attend a youth forum at United Nations Headquarters on 27 June to discuss the role of multilingualism in a globalized world. They are winners of an international essay contest organized by the ELS Educational Services, Inc., and United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) of the world body’s Department of Public Information.

The global road safety crisis has reached an alarming magnitude, with more than 1.3 million people killed on roads every year, and one of the first steps towards addressing the issue would be acceding to and effectively implementing existing United Nations road safety agreements and conventions.

The graduation ceremony for the Class of 2014 of the United Nations International School will take place at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 3 June, in the United Nations General Assembly Hall.

A group of diverse artists will discuss creative ways of conveying the universal lessons of the Holocaust through the powerful medium of the arts on 28 April, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The exhibition, “Kwibuka20: Memory, Unity & Renewal in Rwanda after the Genocide” will open with a formal ceremony on Wednesday, 16 April at 7:30 p.m. in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Visitor Centre gallery (1B).

To inaugurate the Commission on Population and Development, global opinion leaders and stakeholders will hold an interactive high-level debate tomorrow, Friday, 4 April, on the centrality of human rights and dignity, good health and freedom of mobility to a sustainable world.