At a special event today marking the seventy-eighth anniversary of the Nakba, the United Nations Palestinian Rights Committee heard testimonies from bereaved families and friends of victims — those killed during the events of 78 years ago, as well as in the ongoing conflict — including the mother of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old girl from Gaza, who has become a symbol of innocent lives lost amidst violence and war.
Concluding the regular part of its forty-eighth session today, the Committee on Information adopted its report containing two resolutions concerning United Nations information activities that the General Assembly will vote on later this year.
The current cash balance for the United Nations regular budget is “only sufficient to meet legal obligations through the middle of August” — not through December — the Organization’s top management official told the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), urging Member States either to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time or to fundamentally overhaul the UN’s financial rules to avert imminent collapse.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened its May session today with Member States focused on the Secretary-General’s proposed $5.23 billion budget for peacekeeping missions — a 7.5 per cent reduction from the previous period — and the United Nations ongoing liquidity crisis.
With some delegates differing on what constitutes disinformation and misinformation, and how best to tackle it, today’s discussion in the Committee on Information illustrated the polarization and complexity that mark this problem.
The United Nations must continue to provide trusted, accurate information about the world — and be perceived as doing so — the Committee on Information heard today, as it opened its 2026 session in a “toxic” information environment fraught with distorted or outright false narratives supercharged by rapidly advancing technology.
A draft resolution concerning a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS took a recorded vote today in the General Assembly, as delegates disagreed on its organizational arrangements, including the participation of key populations affected by this issue and non-governmental organizations.
The General Assembly today heard explanations from China and the Russian Federation regarding their use of the veto on 7 April, when they rejected a Security Council draft resolution submitted by Gulf States aimed at securing freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions across the Middle East.
The General Assembly today adopted a resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, reaffirming that the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme helps implement sanctions on conflict diamonds and encouraging the widest possible participation and compliance.
Unable to adopt the agenda of its substantive session, the Disarmament Commission decided to suspend the remainder of its opening meeting until tomorrow afternoon.
