SDGs Conference 2022: In the Margins of the UNGA77 is organized on 21 September 2022, Wednesday at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York in partnership with 36 Global Partners from 24 countries. 

SDGs Conference 2022, formerly known as the UNGA Conference, is the flagship event of the Journalists and Writers Foundation, creating a platform for diverse stakeholders to discuss the Global Agenda 2030, offer innovative solutions, strategies, and policy recommendations to advance the culture of peace, human rights, and sustainable development. As 2022 marks the 7th annual SDGs Conference, this global event gathered over 151 high-level speakers across the globe forming an interdisciplinary group of distinguished panelists to discuss a particular set of agenda over three panel sessions and propose a framework for action for the full and effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As the SDGs Conference is back to hybrid mode, the Journalists and Writers Foundation welcomed delegations of participants from Australia, Greece, South Africa, India, Philippines, and Kenya to attend a series of side events in-person including the JWF High-Level Reception, Roundtable on Journalism and SDGs Conference. The conference live streamed was accessible both on Zoom and JWF`s YouTube channel, which received over 19,000 views from 76 countries. The diversity of the SDGs Conference`s audience and the regional representation of the panelists addressed one of the utmost important missions of this global event contributing to SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals. 

Throughout the day, in three panel sessions, high-level keynotes and expert speakers unfolded the contemporary challenges that the world leaders are also addressing at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and suggested innovative, inclusive, and sustainable policy suggestions for the full, effective, and timely implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This global platform convened 21 speakers from 15 countries and hosted notable speakers including Ministers, UN Ambassadors, journalists, civil society leaders and academicians. 

The dignitaries of the SDGs Conference 2022 included H.E. Ms. Sofia Voultepsi, Deputy Minister of Migration and Asylum in charge of Integration of Greece, H.E. Ms. Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, H.E. Ms. Sophia Tesfamariam, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the UN, Ms. Charlotta Schlyter, Ambassador and Head of the Section for Sustainable Development at the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN and Saša Jurečko, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the UN. 

As a result of the diligent review of the 2021-2022 agenda items and priority working areas of diverse UN Agencies and Offices, the SDGs Conference addressed (1) The Global State of Peace and Conflict Resolution (2) Gender-Based Crimes in Conflict Zones (3) Migration and Refugee Policies: Intergovernmental Responses to Recent Displacements in the margins of the UNGA 77th Session on 21 September 2022, Wednesday.