Participants at the annual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum agreed on outcome documents that highlight discussions on, inter alia: smart climate change monitoring; women's empowerment; information and communication technologies (ICTs) innovations and standards; and cyberspace security. Participants also considered ICTs and post-2015 goals, reviewed the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes and produced a Statement on the WSIS+10 Visioning.

At the Global Land Forum meeting held in Antigua, Guatemala from 23-27 April 2013, members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) agreed to a series of commitments in the 'Antigua Declaration' related to securing tenure for responsible land governance.

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) held a thematic debate, titled “Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Practical Solutions in the Energy-Water Nexus,” which brought together environment and development experts to discuss the linkages among climate change, energy supply and water availability in the context of the post-2015 development agenda.

The latest results of the MY World survey identify a good education, better health care and an honest and responsive government as the top three priorities for citizens around the world. Over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries have selected six of 16 issues that would make the most difference to their lives through MY World, a UN global options survey developed by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Millennium Campaign, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the World Wide Web Foundation.

The co-facilitators of the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) process to review the implementation of Resolution 61/16 on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) have released a report summarizing the seven open-ended consultations held in New York between December 2012 and February 2013. The report covers the general trends and potential deliverables that emerged from the discussions, and includes draft elements for a resolution.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the World Health Statistics 2013, showing substantial progress towards meeting several health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDG), in particular in the poorest countries. The trends also indicate that current rates of progress will not be sufficient to achieve the MDGs on reducing child and maternal mortality.

In a briefing to the UN Economic and Social Council, Thomas Stelzer, Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), shared key points from the Board's report to the first regular session for 2013, which took place in Madrid, Spain earlier this year.

The UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP) has met to review a second draft of the Panel report. An HLP statement said the meeting, held on 13-15 May 2013, in New York, US, called for "a renewed Global Partnership that enables a transformative, people-centered and planet-sensitive development agenda, realized through the equal partnership of all stakeholders."

Participants at the Third Global Meeting of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS) have issued 'The Washington Communique,' appealing to the UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP) to tackle conflict and fragility.

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) have issued an advance unedited copy of the 'Report of the Secretary-General on mainstreaming of the three dimensions of sustainable development throughout the United Nations system.' The report responds to a mandate from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), for the UN Secretary-General to report to the UNGA, through ECOSOC, on the progress made on this topic.