Note to Correspondents

United Nations Day will be observed this year at Headquarters with a concert to be held this evening, Friday 23 October, in the General Assembly Hall, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

The world premiere of the Walt Disney animated film, "Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure", will take place on Sunday, 25 October, at 3 p.m., in the Trusteeship Council Chamber. Prior to the screening, Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, will name Tinker Bell the “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help promote environmental awareness among children.

The Government of Canada and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) are sponsoring a special event to launch an exhibit and to unveil a sculpture to take place at the Visitors Lobby on Tuesday, 20 October at 6:30 p.m.

As the world commemorates the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, children living in poverty and their families will make their voices heard and call for full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at public events at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 19 October.

For the second consecutive year, the Department of Public Information will mark United Nations Day (24 October) by dispatching senior United Nations officials to speak at school assemblies in the five boroughs of New York City.

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs will kick off a three-part series of special events on climate change, beginning tomorrow, 13 October, with a focus on the state of the climate change negotiations, followed in the two succeeding weeks by events on the impacts and threats of climate change, and the opportunities for “green” growth.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is sponsoring a major exhibit on violence against women to be opened on Monday, 12 October, at a ceremony to be attended by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other senior United Nations officials and delegations. The ceremony also marks the fifteenth anniversary of International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, and will allow a full-day session of the General Assembly commemorating the anniversary.

Tomorrow, 8 October, an event to commemorate the International Day of Older Persons will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York to seek new ways to strengthen older persons’ involvement in global efforts to improve their quality of life, and to harness the social and economic opportunities that ageing offers.

Stars of the ABC television comedy series Ugly Betty will join representatives from the United Nations and the United Nations Foundation’s “Nothing But Nets” campaign at a press conference on Thursday, 8 October 2009, at 1:00 p.m. at United Nations Headquarters (Room 226) to discuss how the cast and crew of the show are starting the new season by helping to raise awareness about malaria.

On Friday, 18 September, the United Nations Department of Public Information will hold the twelfth student observance of the International Day of Peace under the theme “Disarm Now for a Better World”, in line with the Secretary-General’s “We Must Disarm” campaign.