Meetings Coverage

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2024 session today, recommending eight entities for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferring action on 75 others.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2024 session today, recommending 44 entities for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council while deferring action on 83 others.

A lasting end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only come through a two-State solution, the United Nations chief told the Security Council today, following the reported rejection of such a formula by Israel’s leaders amid the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Opening its 2024 session today, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations recommended 72 entities for special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and deferred action on 58 others.

The large-scale influx of weapons and ammunition into any armed conflict raises significant concerns for peace and security, a senior United Nations official warned the Security Council today, as delegates highlighted the risks associated with both Western arms supplies to Ukraine and Pyongyang’s unlawful arms transfers to the Russian Federation.

The General Assembly decided today to convene a one-day high-level plenary meeting in late September to address the existential threats posed by sea-level rise.

Following strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen launched by the United States and United Kingdom on 11 January — a day after the Security Council adopted a resolution demanding that the Houthis cease attacking merchant and commercial vessels — a senior United Nations official today warned the 15-nation organ of the consequences of further escalation and urged restraint by all concerned parties.

A staggering 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza — 1.9 million civilians — have been forcibly displaced amid Israel’s military operations, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council today, as delegates categorically rejected any statements proposing that Palestinians should be resettled outside of Gaza, including from members of the Israeli Government.

The Final Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the former Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) remains as relevant today as the day it was signed, the Special Representative for the country told the Security Council today.

Amid growing fears of widespread insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today of the need to reconfigure the region’s security coordination mechanism, including the possible deployment of an African Union standby team.