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Hybrid high-level side event, featuring UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen and Minamata Convention Executive Secretary Monika Stankiewicz, to be held on Tuesday, 29 April (18h15-19h45 CEST).

Hybrid high-level side event, featuring the participation of the Minamata Convention Executive Secretary Monika Stankiewicz, among others, to be held on Friday, 2 May (13h15-14h45 CEST).

Hybrid side event, featuring the participation of the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention and the InforMEA Initiative, among others, to be held on Thursday, 8 May (13h15-14h45 CEST).

On 16 April, the Geneva Environment Network and the Chemicals & Waste Youth Platform organize this online briefing to bring more youth voices into globally-coordinated efforts to find solutions to pollution.

In this issue, the newly launched "Focus Areas", Minamata Online session in Arabic on national reporting, membership now open for our Women's Caucus, and two draft documents available for comments.

The Minamata Convention on Mercury launches a new “Focus Areas” section on its website, offering Parties, stakeholders, and the public a more intuitive and data-oriented way to engage with the Convention’s core areas of work.

The Women’s Caucus is a space for advancing the equality and empowerment of women within the implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury.

Parties, Indigenous Peoples and local community organizations, and relevant stakeholders are invited to submit inputs to the draft supplemental guidance by the end of April.

This letter is to update on the progress of the intersessional work pursuant to the decisions of the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and in preparation for the sixth meeting.