As the Sixth Committee (Legal) took up the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Chair of that Commission’s forty-seventh session highlighted the finalization and approval of a draft Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration.
Disorderly restructuring of sovereign debt could lead to costly socializing of private debt, attendant economic distress and significant human suffering, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) heard today as delegates met to discuss external debt sustainability and development.
The administration of justice could not be measured in monetary terms alone, the General Assembly was told today as the Presidents of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the Former Yugoslavia presented their annual reports.
Human trafficking and illicit drugs were jeopardizing peace and social order by ravaging communities, spilling over borders and violating the human rights of its victims worldwide, delegates told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) as it concluded a two-day discussion on crime prevention, criminal justice and international drug control.
Access to justice must be ensured if a society were to be truly based on the rule of law, Sixth (Legal) Committee delegations emphasized today as they continued their deliberations on the principle and shared national practices.
The difficult and complex conventional arms control challenge, which delegates hoped would be mitigated with the coming entry into force of the Arms Trade Treaty, dominated debate in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) today.
Petitioners made impassioned appeals for settling the Western Sahara question for a third and final day today, as the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) considered Morocco’s role and record in the territory.
The international community could not afford to work in silos when combating the problems of illicit drugs and other transnational crimes, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today during its general discussion of crime prevention, criminal justice, and international drug control.
Finding a balance between the international and national dimensions of the rule of law was indispensable to furthering the principle’s just implementation, speakers told the Sixth (Legal) Committee as it opened deliberations on the topic.
To win the battle to eliminate nuclear weapons, the international community first needed to fight long and hard at the conceptual level and win the “battle of ideas”, the Disarmament Committee heard today as it continued its general debate.
