In a high-level meeting to review implementation of the New Urban Agenda 10 years after its adoption, speakers in the General Assembly today both underscored the connection between urban policy and sustainable development and urged renewed action towards both given flagging global progress.
The General Assembly decided today that the 2027 high-level meeting on universal health coverage will be convened under the theme, “Universal health coverage: accessible and affordable health for all by 2030”, adopting a modalities resolution for the one-day New York gathering that surmounted two proposals by the Russian Federation to alter language around stakeholder participation.
The General Assembly today resumed consideration of the United States’ decades-long economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba, adopting an urgent proposal by Havana to re-open debate amid the “unprecedented actions of an extreme extraterritorial nature” being undertaken against the island nation by Washington, D.C.
As conflicts proliferate and risks to civilians mount around the globe, embracing the “responsibility to protect” — an international norm aimed at preventing mass atrocity crimes, such as genocide — is more crucial today than ever before, the General Assembly heard today, in its annual debate on the topic.
A resolution concerning the latest review of the Organization’s counter-terrorism strategy took a vote in the General Assembly today, breaking a chain of consensus adoptions, with some delegates calling the text outdated and repetitive, while others stressed the need to preserve a collective framework.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today reached a significant breakthrough in addressing the United Nations’ chronic liquidity crisis, agreeing to end the practice of “returning” funds that were never collected from Member States, as it concluded its second resumed session.
The General Assembly today agreed to end the practice of “returning” funds that were never collected from Member States as it adopted all texts forwarded by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).
In a world of raging conflicts and shrinking humanitarian budgets, the UN Peacebuilding Commission — and the related, catalytic Peacebuilding Fund — are more critical now than ever, the General Assembly heard today, as it considered the two bodies’ latest annual reports.
Several delegates and Western Sahara petitioners today urged the Special Committee on Decolonization to liberate the “last colony in Africa” through a self-determination referendum that includes independence as an option, while other speakers supported Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the most realistic solution for resolving the longstanding question.
Opening the main part of its 2026 session today, the Special Committee on Decolonization approved three draft resolutions on United Nations support for the world’s 17 remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories.
