[Webcast] United Nations Web TV: Live Schedule (Thursday, 27 October 2016)

United Nations Web TV Live Schedule for Thursday, 27 October 2016
All indicated times are New York time (GMT-5), (Approximate ending time)
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09:45 AM - 10:45 AM        Security Council Media Stakeout (1559 report).

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM        (CR.3) Fifth Committee: 8th meeting.
Administrative and Budgetary Committee.
United Nations common system.
Fifth Committee website: http://www.un.org/en/ga/fifth/index.shtml

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM        (GA Hall) General Assembly: 34th plenary meeting.
1. Report of the International Court of Justice [item 70]
2. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: second report of the General Committee (A/71/250/Add.1) [item 7]
3. Programme planning: report of the Fifth Committee (A/71/545) [item 135]
4. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations; Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services: report of the Fifth Committee (A/71/548) [items 133 and 144]

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM        (CR.11) Launch of the "Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict".
Co-organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the University of Oxford

10:00 AM - 01:00 PM        (CR.1) Third Committee: 33rd meeting.
Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee.
-  Promotion and protection of human rights.
.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
.  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Third Committee website: http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/index.shtml

10:00 AM - 01:00 PM        (CR.4) Fourth Committee: 17th meeting.
Special Political and Decolonization Committee.
Comprehensive review of special political missions.
- Introductory statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
- Presentation by the Under-Secretary-General for Field Support
- Interactive dialogue
- Address by the President of the General Assembly
- General debate
Fourth Committee website: http://www.un.org/en/ga/fourth/index.shtml

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM        Press Conference: International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (2 November).
UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, Mr Frank La Rue, will speak to the press ahead of the interactive panel discussion on “Safety of Journalists ending impunity in conflict situations”.

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM        (CR.2) DPI/NGO Briefing: One-on-One Conversation with Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
Flyer: http://outreach.un.org/ngorelations/files/2016/10/Invite-Flyer.pdf

11:15 AM - 01:00 PM        (CR.9) Countering Human Trafficking: Achieving Universal Ratification of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (“The Palermo Protocol”).
Special interactive event organized by the Permanent Missions of Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria & UNODC.
Flyer: http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/161027am-palermo-protocol.pdf

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM        Press Conference: The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Ms. Karima Bennoune.

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM        (CR.6) The Refugee Crisis - Trauma Treatment Best Practices- the Yazidi and Syrian Experience.
The event, organized by the Permanent Mission of Israel, will include a testimony by a young Yazidi woman, a refugee who survived the horrors of DAESH (ISIS), IsraAID presentation on their work with Syrian and Yazidi refugees, UNHCR representative and others.
Programme: http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/61027am-israel-yazidi-syria.pdf

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM        Daily Press Briefing by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General.
Guest: Gordon Brown, Special Envoy for Global Education on developments with the Education in Emergencies Fund.

01:15 PM - 02:30 PM        (CR.11) Safety of Journalists and ending Impunity in Conflict Situations.
Organized by UNESCO

01:15 PM - 02:30 PM        (ECOSOC) Gender Balance and Diversity in International Adjudication: A Glass Ceiling?
Flyer: http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/161027pm-glass-ceiling.pdf

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM        Press Conferences: 1) The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ms. Yanghee Lee.
2) The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana.
3) The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Ahmed Shaheed.

02:45 PM - 03:45 PM        Security Council Media Stakeout (Middle East, including Syria).
http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2016/825
Around 5:00pm: Ms. Virginia Gamba, Head of OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) will speak to the press immediately following the presentation of the JIM's fourth report to the Security Council.

03:00 PM - 06:00 PM        (TCC) Sixth Committee: 24th meeting.
Legal Committee.
-  Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its forty-ninth session.
-  Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-eighth session.
Sixth Committee website: http://www.un.org/en/ga/sixth/index.shtml

03:00 PM - 06:00 PM        (CR.1) Third Committee: 34th meeting.
Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee.
-  Promotion and protection of human rights.
.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus
.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea
.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Third Committee website: http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/index.shtml

03:00 PM - 06:00 PM        (CR.4) First Committee: 22nd meeting.
Disarmament and International Security Committee.
- Disarmament machinery.
- Action on all draft resolutions and decisions submitted under agenda items (items 89 to 105)
First Committee website: http://www.un.org/en/ga/first/index.shtml

05:30 PM - 08:00 PM        (CR.12) Time to end intentional destruction of cultural heritage: a human rights call to action.
A discussion of the report presented by the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.
Co-organized by OHCHR and UNESCO
Flyer: http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/161027pm-cultural-heritage.pdf