NGOs will have one conference room reserved for their use in the Palais. It will seat approximately 300 people. Booking the NGO side event room is done on a first come, first serve basis. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to book the room. If you require technical equipment (e.g. projector) for your event, please let us know. The provision of some technical equipment and services will need to be paid for by the requesting NGO.
If you book a different room for your event, let us know and we will add it to this calendar.
Calendar last updated 2 May 2013
Saturday, 20 April
| 10.00 - 18.00 | ICAN Campaigners Meeting | Villa La Pastorale, 106 Route de Ferney | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons |
Sunday, 21 April
| 09.00 - 17.00 | ICAN Campaigners Meeting | Villa La Pastorale, 106 Route de Ferney | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons |
| 18.30 - 20.30 | NGO Reception | La Buvette des Bains, 30 Quai du Mont-Blanc, 1201 Geneva | Reaching Critical Will |
Monday, 22 April
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: Mexico | Room XVI | Beatrice Fihn Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: General debate | Assembly Hall | |
| 10:00-13:00 | Nuclear weapons in Europe including Germany | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. IALANA, INES, INESAP |
| 13:15-14:45 | Beyond International Humanitarian Law | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy |
| 13:15-14:45 | Nuclear weapons: the state of play | Assembly Hall | Centre for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: General debate | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:00-17:50 | Scrapping Trident: Political Perspectives on Disarmament from the UK | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
| 18:00-19:00 | Preparing for simulated negotiations of a nuclear weapons convention | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. INESAP |
| TBA | Opening Ceremony of the Exhibition "For a Nuclear Weapon-Free World: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Speak" | Hall XIV | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Gensuikyo) |
| 20:00 | International youth meeting // Welcome party | La Taverne de la République, Rue de Carouge 44 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. BANG |
Tuesday, 23 April
| 7:45 | Interfaith prayer vigil | Pregny Gate | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Christian CND |
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: United States | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Reaching Critical Will |
| 9:00-17:00 | International Day of Action for Nuclear Disarmament | Place des Nations | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. International Peace Bureau |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: General debate | Assembly Hall | |
| 10:00-13:00 | Entente Nucleaire? The 'Teutates' Treaties between UK and France | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
| 10:00-17:00 | Exhibition "For a Nuclear Weapon-Free World: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Speak" | Hall XIV | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Gensuikyo) |
| 13:15-14:45 | Film screening: "The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age" and discussion | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Nagasaki Youth Delegation |
| 13:15-14:45 | Reducing the role of nuclear weapons: why it matters | Assembly Hall | Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) |
| 13:15-14:45 | Practical steps towards transparency in nuclear disarmament | Room XI | UNIDIR |
| 13:00-14:45 | Advances in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation education | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Auditorium Jaques-Freyond, 132 Rue de Lausanne | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Ban All Nukes generation |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: General debate | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:00-17:50 | Modernisation and New Weapons Systems |
Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. INES, IPB, WFC |
| 18:00-19:30 | Everything You Treasure: For a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Opening Reception for Exhibit | Hall XIV (Assembly Hall entrance) | UNIDIR, ICAN, and Soka Gakkai International This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| 18:00-19:00 | Preparing for simulated negotiations of a nuclear weapons convention | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. INESAP |
| 18:15-21:30 | International NGO meeting | Maison des Associations 15 Rue des Savoises |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. International Peace Bureau |
Wednesday, 24 April
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: Costa Rica | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | NGO presentations | Assembly Hall | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Strategy of the anti-nuclear weapons movement | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. IALANA, INES, IPB |
| 13:15-14:45 | Civil society's role in banning nuclear weapons | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ICAN |
| 13:15-14:45 | Reducing alert rates of nuclear weapons | Assembly Hall | Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs |
| 13:15-14:45 | Joint US/Russia New START Implementation Briefing | Room XI | Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, US Department of State |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: Cluster one issues | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:30-17:30 | Increasing transparency of nuclear-warhead and fissile-material stocks as a step toward disarmament | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. International Panel on Fissile Materials |
| 18:00-19:00 | Preparing for simulated negotiations of a nuclear weapons convention | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. INESAP |
Thursday, 25 April
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: Netherlands | Room XVI | Ray Acheson Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: Cluster one issues | Assembly Hall | |
| 10:00-13:00 | Denuclearization and Framework for Peace of Northeast Asia | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Peace Depot |
| 13:15-14:45 | Moral and Ethical Imperative for Nuclear Abolition | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. IKV Pax Christi |
| 13:15-14:45 | UK-Norway Initiative | Room XI | UK Ministry of Defence and Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: Cluster one specific issue (nuclear disarmament and security assurances) | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:00-17:00 | The Iranian nuclear crisis and steps toward a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other WMD | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University |
| 16:30 | Ten steps towards a WMD free zone in the Middle East | UNOG Library Events Room (B-135) | RSVP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Wednesday, 24 April |
| 18:00-19:00 | Preparing for simulated negotiations of a nuclear weapons convention | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. INESAP |
| 18:30 | Vers l'interdiction des armes nucléaires? Conférence publique avec témoignage de survivants d'Hiroshima (Event in French) | Uni Mail (Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 40, Salle MR280) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. BANG |
Friday, 26 April
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: Ambassador Cornel Feruta of Romania, Chair of the PrepCom | Room XVI | Ray Acheson Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: Cluster one specific issue (nuclear disarmament and security assurances) | Assembly Hall | |
| 10:00-13:00 | A time for boldness | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation |
| 13:15-14:45 | DU and ecological consequences | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. IALANA and ICBUW |
| 13:15-14:45 | Beyond verification, definitions, and scope: other issues to be addressed in an FMCT | Room XI | UNIDIR and Canada |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: Cluster two issues | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:00-17:50 | Nuclear weapons and human survival | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| 18:00-19:00 | Preparing for simulated negotiations of a nuclear weapons convention | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. INESAP |
Saturday, 27 April
| 19:00 | Concert for a world free of nuclear weapons | Room Franklin Martin Rue de Vallée 3, 1204 Geneva |
Monday, 29 April
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: South Africa | Room XVI | Ray Acheson Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: Cluster two issues | Assembly Hall | |
| 10:15-12:45 | Simulating negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention | Room XI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| 13:15-14:45 | Engaging Legislators in Building the Framework for a Nuclear Weapons Free World | Room XVI | Alyn Ware Parliamentarians for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament |
| 13:15-14:45 | Looking toward 2015: Options for strengthening the review process | Room XI | Canada |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: Cluster two specific issue (regional issues, including the Middle East) | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:00-18:00 | Simulating negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention | Room XI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Tuesday, 30 April
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: United Kingdom | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: Cluster two specific issue (regional issues, including the Middle East) | Assembly Hall | |
| 10:00-12:00 | NGO discussion with Ambassador Laajava on the Conference on a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East |
Room XVI |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Geneva Centre for Security Policy |
| 10:15-12:45 | Simulating negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention | Room XI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| 13:14-14:45 | Unspeakable suffering: humanitarian dimension of nuclear weapons | Room XI | Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Reaching Critical Will of WILPF |
| 13:15-14:45 | A WMD Free Zone in the Middle East: Would an NGO mock conference expedite the convening of the Helsinki Conference? | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: Cluster three issues | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:00-18:00 | Simulating negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention | Room XI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Wednesday, 1 May
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: Switzerland | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: Cluster three issues | Assembly Hall | |
| 13:15-14:45 | Creating the Conditions for General and Complete Disarmament | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. SCRAP |
| 13:15-14:45 | Regional nuclear material accountancy and control mechanisms, the European model | Assembly Hall | European Union and Euratom |
| 13:15-14:45 | UK plans to set-up new nuclear programme | Room XI | UK Department of Energy and Climate Change |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: Cluster three specific issue (nuclear energy and other issues) | Assembly Hall |
Thursday, 2 May
| 8:00-8:50 | Abolition Caucus | Room XVI | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Abolition 2000 |
| 9:00–9:50 | Government Briefing for NGOs: Germany and NPDI | Room XVI | Ray Acheson Reaching Critical Will |
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: Cluster three specific issue (nuclear energy and other issues) | Assembly Hall | |
| 13:15-14:45 | Safeguards, safety, and security when planning new nuclear reactors | Room XI | Finland and Canada |
Friday, 3 May
| 10:00-13:00 | Plenary: Consideration of the draft report | Assembly Hall | |
| 15:00-18:00 | Plenary: Consideration and adoption of the draft report | Assembly Hall |
