Live Schedule

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2023-03-22T09:00:00-04:00

0500am

426th Meeting, 24th Session, Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
03:04:17
Consideration of Germany
2023-03-22T09:00:00-04:00

0500am

37th Meeting - 52nd Regular Session of Human Rights Council
03:40:02
52nd regular session of the Human Rights Council (27 February – 4 April 2023)
2023-03-22T10:00:00-04:00

0600am

Outer Space: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, 62nd session, 1038th meeting
03:23:45
Outer Space: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, 62nd session, 1038th meeting
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2023-03-22T12:40:00-04:00

0840am

(Day 1) UN Water Channel
Live
Welcome to the UN Water Channel.
2023-03-22T12:40:00-04:00

0840am

(Day 1) SDG Media Zone - UN 2023 Water Conference
Live
Water is critical for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable for human development, health and wellbeing. But billions of people worldwide still live without safely managed drinking water and sanitation.
2023-03-22T13:00:00-04:00

0900am

UN 2023 Water Conference - Opening Ceremony
Live
United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023) - Informal opening ceremony organized by the co-hosts of the UN 2023 Water Conference-the Governments of Tajikistan and the Netherlands.
Coming Up
2023-03-22T13:30:00-04:00

0930am

United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023)
2023-03-22T13:30:00-04:00

0930am

This event launches an open call for collective positive impact in 100 basins, a key contribution to the Water Action Agenda. 
2023-03-22T13:30:00-04:00

0930am

More than 60% of freshwater resources worldwide are shared by two or more countries. Climate change, population growth, urbanization and unsustainable economic development are negatively impacting such rivers, lakes and groundwaters. Transboundary water cooperation is therefore crucial for peace, sustainable development and climate action.
2023-03-22T13:45:00-04:00

0945am

Security Council Media Stakeout (Middle East; Other matters).
2023-03-22T14:00:00-04:00

1000am

52nd regular session of the Human Rights Council (27 February – 4 April 2023)
2023-03-22T14:00:00-04:00

1000am

Water for health: access to water, sanitation and hygiene, including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (Sustainable Development Goal targets 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 and Goals 1, 3, 4, 5 and 17) - United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023)
2023-03-22T14:00:00-04:00

1000am

Consideration of Costa Rica
2023-03-22T14:00:00-04:00

1000am

Outer Space: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, 62nd session, 1039th meeting
2023-03-22T14:00:00-04:00

1000am

The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
2023-03-22T15:00:00-04:00

1100am

Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are fundamental to health including for disease prevention but also for broader physical and social well-being. Yet, at least 2 billion people rely on faecally contaminated water sources for drinking globally, almost half of the world's population lack safely managed sanitation services, and 29% do not have a handwashing facility with soap and water at home.
2023-03-22T15:00:00-04:00

1100am

Partnerships and Cooperation for Water: The main findings of the United Nations World Water Development Report 2023 and experiences from the countries - UN 2023 Water Conference Side Event
2023-03-22T15:00:00-04:00

1100am

Water, Peace and Security are interconnected and interlinked, as water is a driver of conflict in many parts of the world while transboundary and sub-national water cooperation also serves as a conduit for peace and security. This is particularly relevant in Africa where water use and allocation have been a source of increased tension or have served to strengthen cooperation in various river basins or transboundary waters across the Continent.
2023-03-22T15:00:00-04:00

1100am

This side-event will present the existing legal and policy instruments to protect water systems during armed conflicts and will identify ways to ensure a better implementation of international law.
2023-03-22T16:00:00-04:00

1200pm

Daily Press Briefing by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.
2023-03-22T16:15:00-04:00

1215pm

Outer Space: COPUOS, Legal Subcommittee, 62nd session, Technical presentations, 22 March 2023 p.m.
2023-03-22T16:30:00-04:00

1230pm

The Government of Bangladesh has a high level and long-term commitment to SDG6. This session features collaborative work on providing safe drinking water to schools and health care centres in the coastal zone.
2023-03-22T16:30:00-04:00

1230pm

The International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa, which draws representatives from current and former Heads of State as well as other global leaders, will release its High-Level Report during the UN 2023 Water Conference, 22-24 March 2023, New York.
2023-03-22T16:30:00-04:00

1230pm

The IAEA invites UN 2023 Water Conference delegates to attend the launch of a new network to empower Member States to generate their own chemical, biological and isotopic water data.
2023-03-22T16:30:00-04:00

1230pm

The objective of the side event is to discuss the implementation of the 2023 Praia Call for Action through the Decade's work streams. 
2023-03-22T17:15:00-04:00

0115pm

The government of Germany, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) will host a high-level ministerial side event of the UN 2023 Water Conference which will showcase how water-related challenges can be tackled both at national and transboundary level by strengthening the water-climate interlinkage.
2023-03-22T17:15:00-04:00

0115pm

At this Side Event during the UN 2023 Water Conference, hosted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW) will set out a seven-point transformative agenda: for how we govern, value and use water, from the local to the global, and open up major opportunities for innovation and investment, to enable more efficient, inclusive and sustainable use of water.
2023-03-22T17:15:00-04:00

0115pm

To accelerate the implementation, representatives from Asia and the Pacific in this side event present how to put water at the core of a quality-oriented society through decisions in policy, investment, and partnership to strengthen climate resilience and socio-economic security.
2023-03-22T18:00:00-04:00

0200pm

This side event will present significant advances in the area of regional cooperation on data, information and knowledge generation and sharing in the Amazon basin, detailing results and commitments of relevant partnerships.
2023-03-22T18:00:00-04:00

0200pm

Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to ensure the availability of sanitary drinking water for all, focusing on the sustainable management of water resources, wastewater, and water ecosystems. As well as acknowledging the importance of enabling the environment.
2023-03-22T18:30:00-04:00

0230pm

The Leaders' Segment is a platform for a range of stakeholders (non-Member State speakers) whose intervention can not be accommodated during the formal plenary sessions.
2023-03-22T19:00:00-04:00

0300pm

The Radical Collaboration for Water Resilience event will showcase how new collaboration models can unlock and achieve basin resiliency to the benefit of communities, ecosystems, and economies.
2023-03-22T19:00:00-04:00

0300pm

Hybrid press briefing entitled Turning the tide: A Call to Collective Action by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water.
2023-03-22T19:00:00-04:00

0300pm

Interactive dialogue 2: Water for Sustainable Development: Valuing Water, Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Sustainable Economic and Urban Development (SDG 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and SDGs 2, 8, 9, 11, 12) - United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023)
2023-03-22T19:00:00-04:00

0300pm

On World Water Day 2023, Mozambique and Switzerland will convene a ministerial-level Arria-formula meeting. The main objective is to raise awareness on the importance of the protection of critical infrastructure that enables the delivery of essential water and sanitation services during armed conflicts to the civilian population.
2023-03-22T19:00:00-04:00

0300pm

United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023)
2023-03-22T19:30:00-04:00

0330pm

The IBM Sustainability Accelerator is a pro-bono social impact program speeding and scaling nonprofit and governmental organization environmental sustainability initiatives supporting vulnerable populations.
2023-03-22T19:30:00-04:00

0330pm

This event brings together global and national actors with experience in drought management and risk financing to share the experience of fragile countries in managing drought risk and present innovative instrument types from global case studies.
2023-03-22T19:30:00-04:00

0330pm

Access to clean water, energy and food production, and ecosystems are under increasing pressure from different global processes, such as a rising global population, rapid urban and economic development, changing diets and climate change.
2023-03-22T21:00:00-04:00

0500pm

The aim of this initiative is to deliver the goal of aligning trillions in financial flows with the achievement of a water secure world. This is critical in accelerating and scaling up actions to tackle the water crisis and achieve SDG 6.
2023-03-22T21:00:00-04:00

0500pm

Groundwater is a crucial component of the water cycle and is available almost everywhere on Earth in sufficient quantity and adequate quality to sustain water supply. In countries where the maturity of use of groundwater is high, competing demands between water supply, agriculture and ecosystems are becoming more visible with important development implications – more so under climate change. A better understanding of groundwater and higher political prioritization can help improve its sustainable use. 
2023-03-22T21:00:00-04:00

0500pm

Water Conference Side Event of the United Nations Environmental Program and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia on "Taking action for Sustainable Lake Management - as a catalyst to accelerate global commitment in the Water Action Agenda"
2023-03-22T22:30:00-04:00

0630pm

This side event at the UN 2023 Water Conference is intended to galvanize action and bring and convince additional partners of the necessity of addressing sustainability and systems strengthening.
2023-03-22T22:30:00-04:00

0630pm

FAO Side Event "National Water Roadmaps towards the 2030 Agenda" at the UN 2023 Water Conference