Category: UNGA

The Gendered Impacts of Security Challenges: “The role of the UN System”

This meeting will consider the gendered impacts of security challenges in Africa and the Indo-Pacific, as well as the role of the United Nations in implementing two decades’ worth of Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security.

Reinvigorating Inclusive Multilateralism: A Business Townhall at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA76)

This session will highlight the role of the U.S. private sector aligning with global business to respond to global challenges, and provide solutions working through inclusive multilateralism.

Immunization Agenda 2030 High-Level Side Event

After a year that saw one of the first significant slips in childhood vaccination rates in decades, an ambitious global strategy to maximize the lifesaving impact of vaccines launched in April: Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

Fundamentally flawed: impacts of internet fragmentation on people and the economy

People all over the world will feel the worst effects of internet fragmentation over the coming years unless we act now to promote data flows as essential to global economic development and fundamental rights. This panel convenes technology policy and human rights experts to discuss this pressing issue.

Using Social Media to Build Confidence in Vaccines

This conversation seeks to explore the challenges of vaccination communications today and highlight new opportunities for public-private collaboration to build vaccine demand in more effective and equitable ways.

Climate Strong Islands Network Gathering

An interactive discussion session to gain feedback on several key policy areas that CSIN plans to address through its National Policy Framework.

FP Virtual Dialogue: Securing Our Digital Future

Against the backdrop of the 76th UN General Assembly and the proliferation of cyber attacks globally, FP Analytics, in partnership with Microsoft, will unveil a special report exploring how multilateral consensus for norms and rules around cybersecurity could safeguard the digital ecosystem.

Access to medicines: Sustainable delivery models that leave no one behind

Discussions will draw on lessons learned from the pandemic and beyond on how to best support more resilient health systems, and ultimately ensure progress on universal health coverage and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

The Great Pivot: Climate Action and the Financial Sector

The first online Earth Series of the academic year – the first Columbia Climate School Earth Series – presents a discussion of the intersection between climate risks and the allocation of private capital, and the role of the financial services industry in achieving climate solutions.

#LiftUpPhilanthropy: Boosting local philanthropy to make aid localisation a reality

A session during the 76th session of UNGA around how organisations developing philanthropy at the local level could bridge the gaps between the intention of channeling assistance to local actors and the actual delivery of long-term, sustainable, locally-built solutions.