Continuing its regular session for 2016, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 10 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferred action on the status of 24 others.
The Economic and Social Council filled outstanding vacancies on five of its subsidiary bodies today, electing all new members by acclamation.
Continuing into the second week of its regular session for 2016, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended that the Economic and Social Council grant special consultative status to 27 organizations — including recommending that one group’s status be reinstated — while deferring action on 40 others.
With their advancement hampered by gender, ethnicity, social status or religion, and decisions affecting their lives too often in the hands of others, young people must be recognized as critical agents of change in order to transform inherited challenges into opportunities for a more prosperous, equal and sustainable world, Government and youth representatives stressed today, as the Economic and Social Council opened its fifth annual Youth Forum with the launch of the first global initiative on decent jobs for young people.
Protecting civilians, making progress in Mali and Côte d’Ivoire and creating a special mission to monitor disarmament in Colombia had been at the centre of the Security Council’s work over the past four weeks, Elbio Rosselli (Uruguay), its President for January, said during the monthly wrap-up meeting today.
President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi had portrayed an optimistic and positive picture of recent developments in his country, while the radical opposition camp had expressed concern that “genocide was in the making”, France’s representative told the Security Council today during a briefing on its visiting mission to Burundi and Ethiopia from 21 to 23 January.
Concluding the first week of its regular session for 2016, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today deferred action on 52 applications for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and reviewed 404 new quadrennial reports, taking note of 362 of them while deferring action on 42 others.
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 15 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferred action on 53 others, as it continued its session.
While security remained a paramount concern in Somalia, politics was increasingly displacing violence as a means of resolving differences, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative told the Security Council today, pressing it to provide a “powerful” basis for the United Nations and its African Union partners to contribute decisively to the country’s future.
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for six months, until 31 July, and decided to increase its force levels to 888, while welcoming progress in negotiations between the island nation’s Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders on a comprehensive and durable settlement.
