📅 24 – 28 June 2024
New York, USA
Since 1998, the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS) has been an essential platform for discussing the activities and issues related to strengthening the coordination and effectiveness of the humanitarian assistance of the United Nations.
The HAS provides a key opportunity for Member States, the United Nations system, development actors, the private sector, and other humanitarian partners to discuss current and emerging humanitarian challenges and priority themes and share experiences and lessons learned.
The 2024 HAS will take place from 25 to 27 June in New York. The HAS will be chaired by His Excellency Ambassador Ivan Šimonović, Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations in New York, in his capacity as the ECOSOC Vice-President for the HAS. On the basis of the ECOSOC decision agreed on 9 April, the theme for the 2024 HAS is “Putting humanity first in the face of conflicts and climate change: strengthening humanitarian assistance and respect for international humanitarian law and promoting effectiveness, innovation, and partnerships”.
Four high-level panel discussions will be held during the HAS under the following themes:
- “The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions: reversing the erosion of respect for international humanitarian law and its humanitarian consequences”;
- “Addressing the adverse impacts of climate change in humanitarian emergencies”;
- “Embracing innovation and adapting new technology in humanitarian assistance”;
- “Transformative humanitarian action: women and girls at the center of prevention, response and protection”.
In addition to high-level panel discussions, the organization of the HAS will include opening and closing sessions, including a general discussion and action on the annual ECOSOC humanitarian resolution on Strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations.
