UNCITRAL Events and News

UNCITRAL Events and Colloquia

27 June 2019 to 29 June 2019

Asia ADR Week 2019, “The Kintsukuroi Perspective: The Asian ADR Revolution,” applies the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold, or kintsukuroi, to alternative dispute resolution in the global economy – with costly commercial disputes as cracks that are mended by ADR. Organized by the Asian International Arbitration Centre in in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the event’s first day features a presentation by Athita Komindr, Head of the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, on the Singapore Convention on Mediation. 

27 June 2019 to 29 June 2019

亚洲ADR 2019会议,《金缮观点:亚洲ADR变化》, 引用日本采取纯天然材质修补残缺器物的传统工艺,ki

17 April 2019

Themed “New Era of Global Collaboration”, the International Dispute Resolution Conference 2019 aims to foster discussion on emerging trends in dispute resolution and the impact of the“Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation” on international business environment. The Conference is jointly organised by UNCITRAL, Hong Kong Mediation Centre and International Dispute Resolution & Risk Management Institute in collaboration with the Department of Justice.

01 April 2019 to 02 April 2019

The Thirteenth Multinational Judicial Colloquium on Insolvency, co-sponsored by INSOL International, UNCITRAL and The World Bank Group, will take place in Singapore, Republic of Singapore, on 1 and 2 April 2019, in Sands Expo and Convention Centre.

25 March 2019 to 26 March 2019

El Grupo de Trabajo I sobre las microempresas y pequeñas y medianas empresas (MIPYME) celebrará un coloquio sobre los modelos de cooperación entre MIPYME, los días 25 y 26 de marzo de 2019 en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.

25 March 2019 to 26 March 2019

Working Group I on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) will hold a Colloquium on MSMEs’ models of cooperation on 25 and 26 March 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

25 March 2019 to 26 March 2019

Le Groupe de travail I sur les micro-, petites et moyennes entreprises organise un colloque sur les modèles de coopération

25 March 2019 to 26 March 2019

由联合国贸法会、亚洲开发银行(ADB)

25 March 2019 to 26 March 2019

С 25 по 26 марта 2019 года состоялась вторая южно-тихоокеанская международная арбитражная конференция в Порт-Морсби, Папуа — Новая Гвинея.

25 March 2019 to 26 March 2019

The Second South Pacific International Arbitration Conference will take place from 25 to 26 March 2019 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). UNCITRAL is co-organizing the event with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the PNG government, and other development partners. 

News Articles

08 April 2024

Representatives of more than 70 State delegations and 40 international organizations gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York last week to complete another set of reforms in investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS), which Working Group III of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) was mandated to carry out in 2017. Read the full press release here.

04 April 2024

The monthly compilation for March of the bibliography of recent writings related to the work of UNCITRAL is now available.

18 March 2024

Belgium and the European Union have become signatories to the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships (the “Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships”). Read the full press release here.

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