Delegates concluded the twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea today, adopting a draft decision on the workspace needed for those involved in the implementation of the “oceans constitution”, and more broadly, tackling thorny maritime disputes that continued to hamper peaceful ocean governance.
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today adopted the report of its 2015 May-June session as orally revised, during which it recommended to the Economic and Social Council 160 organizations for consultative status and deferred 200 for further consideration at its regular session in 2016.
The Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities closed its eighth session today, adopting three decisions that laid out the terms for its ninth session, and exploring ways to overcome pervasive discrimination in the provision of everything from health care and education to employment and disaster relief.
The Security Council today expressed concern at the grave security situation in parts of Central Africa within the remit of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), in particular the ongoing crisis in the Central African Republic and its regional impact, the continuing threat of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and continued terrorist activities by Boko Haram.
Any exit strategy for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) must be tied to concrete improvements in the situation of people on the ground, a top United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council this morning.
Concluding a three-day coordination and management segment, the Economic and Social Council today adopted six texts, including one resolution on mainstreaming a gender perspective across the United Nations system.
Fine-tuning the funding architecture, streamlining operational activities and garnering a “new political momentum” were critical for the United Nations to play a key role in the post-2015 development era, the Economic and Social Council heard today during a dialogue on the longer-term positioning of the United Nations development system, as it also adopted three procedural resolutions.
The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the Panel of Experts that assists the Committee monitoring sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear programme, until 9 July 2016, while keeping the mandate under review pending developments.
Around the world, more than 1 billion people with disabilities were desperately poor, dying of hunger and preventable disease, which made it essential for their explicit rights and needs to be mainstreamed in the new global development framework currently being negotiated, delegates stressed today as the Conference of States Parties to the Disabilities Convention opened its eighth session.
As Côte d’Ivoire prepared to hold a presidential election in October, the renewal of mandate of the United Nations Operation in that country was crucial to the consolidation of the achievements made since the 2010 post-election crisis, the Security Council heard today.
