The largest global gathering of Indigenous Peoples concluded its annual session at the United Nations today, adopting a number of recommendations, one of which drew attention to how Indigenous Peoples’ health is “cultural, collective and rooted in ancestral territories, languages, spiritual practices and governance systems”.
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 30 April 2027.
With the risk of nuclear weapons use “at its highest since the darkest moments of the cold war”, United Nations delegates and representatives of international agencies and organizations today called for urgent efforts to reverse previous failures and deliver concrete results in disarmament and non-proliferation, as the eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) concluded its general debate.
Amid growing concern over the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s expanding nuclear and ballistic-missile programmes, senior United Nations officials and Security Council members today warned of continued weapons development, sanctions evasion and rising military tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Past nuclear tests cast a long shadow over the General Assembly Hall as the eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered its third day, with delegations grappling with the human and environmental toll that still echoes across generations.
With nuclear disarmament, deterrence and non-proliferation machinery stalled or imperilled, delegations today warned that the threat posed to humanity is not abstract but “real, present and growing”, as the eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non‑Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered its second day.
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.
Amid a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza, punctuated by airstrikes and shelling, as well as soaring humanitarian needs, the Security Council today heard updates on what a transitional governance structure and reconstruction efforts would resemble in the devastated Strip during the organ’s quarterly open debate on the Palestinian question.
With humanity living under the shadow of potential nuclear Armageddon, United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres today called on States to “breathe life” back into the Treaty on the Non‑Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, stressing the urgent need to protect humanity from the grave threat of nuclear annihilation.
The Security Council today heard urgent calls to restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, with UN Secretary-General António Guterres warning that disruptions since early March have “struck” at global energy security, food supplies and trade.
