Connect ideas with action, finance with innovation and national leadership with international solidarity, the 2026 United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development heard as it opened its eight-day session today.
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.
In an emergency session following resumed confrontation between the United States and Iran, the Security Council today heard of the need to implement the peace deal recently reached between the two countries lest the situation spiral further.
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a vote in the General Assembly today, breaking a chain of consensus adoptions, with some delegates calling the text outdated and repetitive, while others stressed the need to preserve a collective framework.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 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).
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 Security Council today renewed its sanctions regime on the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1 July 2027 and extended the mandate of the Group of Experts responsible for overseeing its implementation until 1 August 2027.
Meeting following a reported strike on a bus transporting Belarusian civilians in the Russian Federation, many speakers in the Security Council today called for an independent investigation to establish the facts surrounding this incident as calls for a broader ceasefire echoed yet again in the chamber.
Despite the ceasefire announced eight months ago, humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip remain bleak, with 70 per cent of the population lacking dignified housing, sanitation systems destroyed and Israel still blocking much of the food and medical aid required to meet Palestinian residents’ “immense” needs, a senior UN official told the Security Council today.
As military pressure builds in and around the Sudanese city of El Obeid, the Security Council today heard that immediate action is needed to prevent a repeat of atrocities committed in the city of El Fasher last year — which, in turn, echoed the 2004 horrors in Darfur.
