SC/11450
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire until 30 June 2015, adjusting it in line with progress on the ground, including the improved security situation.
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SC/11453
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) until 30 June 2015, within the authorized troop ceiling of 11,200 military and 1,440 police personnel.
HR/5200
The fifteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child today elected nine Committee members for a four-year term while appointing Marjon V. Kamara (Liberia) as the Chairperson.
SC/11448
Although encouraging signs in Ukraine pointed to a de-escalation of the conflict, including a 15-point peace plan proposed by its newly elected President and a week-long unilateral ceasefire, quick action was needed to make the most of those gains, the Security Council heard today.
GA/COL/3270
Acting without a vote, the Special Committee on Decolonization approved four draft resolutions today to accelerate efforts to create a world free of colonialism.
HR/5199
The thirty-fourth Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights re-elected three members to the Human Rights Committee today, while choosing five new ones and filling one vacancy on the monitoring body.
ECOSOC/6629
Global humanitarian aid actors should adopt policies of solidarity with strife-torn and disaster-stricken communities rather than charity, and ensure aid workers had the requisite skills to deliver their specific mandates, experts on the matter told the Economic and Social Council this afternoon.
SC/11449
The security situation in the Central African Republic remained tense, with a series of deadly attacks and spontaneous demonstrations testing the local and international community’s ability to bring calm to that nation, the Security Council heard today.
ECOSOC/6628
With a burgeoning and increasingly complex caseload taxing the global humanitarian aid system, more funding and better ways to help and protect people in strife-torn countries from the Central African Republic to Syria were more vital than ever, speakers said today as the Economic and Social Council began its three-day humanitarian affairs segment.
PBC/98
The Peacebuilding Commission had worked assiduously since 2005, not only as an intergovernmental body mobilizing financial and technical resources, but also providing advice and post-conflict recovery strategies, the keynote speaker at that body’s first-ever annual session said today.