This is a past event announcement page. Please visit here for more details: 2025 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Every year on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, UN Member States stand together in a moment of reflection and renewed commitment to peace. This year’s commemoration will take place amid a fragile ceasefire in Gaza following unimaginable violence and a humanitarian catastrophe that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands and forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands more.  

Solidarity Day commemorates the adoption on 29 November 1947 of General Assembly Resolution 181, which envisaged the partition of Mandate Palestine into two states – one Arab and one Jewish – with Jerusalem under United Nations administration. Over seven decades later, after numerous wars and ongoing conflict, the hope for lasting peace in the Middle East remains unfulfilled. Today, the need for a durable solution is more urgent than ever.  

On this solemn day, the international community, led by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, gathers for an expression of profound solidarity. The Committee special meeting, to be held at the UN headquarters in New York, ECOSOC Chamber on 25 November (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.), will offer an opportunity for Member States, regional organizations and civil society to share messages of solidarity with the Palestinian people. Similar events take place at UN offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna as well as others throughout the world.  All Member States and Observers, United Nations organizations, intergovernmental and civil society organizations are invited to attend. 

The event will be webcast at UN WEB TV. Commemorations will continue on 4 December with a screening of “The Voice of Hind Rajab”. More details about the screening.

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Provisional Programme

• 10.00 – 10.10 a.m. – H.E. Mr. Coly Seck, Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations)
• 10.10 – 10.20 a.m. – H.E. Ms. Annalena Baerbock, President of the General Assembly
• 10.20 – 10.30 a.m. – H.E. Mr. Michael Imran Kanu, President of the Security Council (Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations)
• 10.30 – 10.40 a.m. – Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 10.40 – 10.50 a.m. – H.E. Mr. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, reading out a message from H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine
• 10.50 – 10.57 a.m.  – “Voice from Gaza” Ms. Shrouq Al Aila, Video message
• 11.00 – 11.10 a.m. Introduction of Intergovernmental Organizations’ Speakers by H.E. Mr. Coly Seck – Chair
• 11.10 – 11.20 a.m. – H.E. Mr. Mohamed Fathi Edrees, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, reading on behalf of H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssof, Chair of the African Union Commission
• 11.20 – 11.30 a.m. – H.E. Mr. Majed Abdelaziz, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations, reading out a message from H.E. Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League
• 11.30 – 11.40 a.m. – H.E. Mr. Godfrey Kwoba, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Uganda to the United Nations, reading out a message on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries
• 11.40 – 11.50 a.m. – H.E. Mr. Hameed A. Opeloyeru, Permanent Observer of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the United Nations, reading out a message from H.E. Hissein Brahim Taha, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
• 11.50 – 12.00 p.m. – H.E. Mr. Jayantha Jayasuriya, Chair of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations)
• 12.00 – 12.10 p.m. Mr. Mosab Abu Toha, CSO representative
• 12.20 – 12.30 p.m. Closing – H.E. Mr. Coly Seck, Chair