As part of the ongoing efforts to overhaul the management of the Organization’s global staff and produce a more efficient workforce, delegates of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today tackled a wide range of thorny issues from mobility to recruitment to performance management.
The United Nations top official for Iraq today urged continuance of, and support to, the new unity Government’s efforts to push forward reconciliation and security efforts that he said were beginning to succeed in countering the brutal onslaught of terrorist forces.
The Economic and Social Council, in one of five texts adopted today, called on the Haitian Government to fully operationalize the External Aid Coordination Framework and its mechanisms in keeping with the road map adopted in 2014.
The Economic and Social Council used the first day of a periodic management meeting to advance its wide-ranging work on economic, social and environmental issues by adopting several draft texts, accepting reports and filling vacancies on nearly a dozen of its own subsidiary bodies.
As the General Assembly today took up the report of the Human Rights Council, nearly 30 delegations, the majority from developing countries, urged that body to guard against politicization of its work, with many calling for equal weight to be given to the right to development, as well as economic, social and cultural rights.
The Security Council, meeting independently from but concurrently with the General Assembly, today elected the final judge for the International Court of Justice. The vacancy had to be filled in February 2015, when the terms of five members would expire.
A spike in violence in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Israel showed once more that Palestinians and Israelis must make hard the compromises needed for a sustainable peace, a top political affairs official told the Security Council this morning.
Crises perpetrated by non-State actors put additional burden on the Human Rights Council’s agenda, that body’s President told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today as he presented his annual report.
The use of temporary property management posts came under the scrutiny of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today, as delegates discussed ways to strengthen assets control at the United Nations Secretariat.
The General Assembly today adopted by consensus a text on Accelerated Modalities of Action for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), known as the SAMOA Pathway.
