The Taliban’s good-faith engagement with the international community, coupled with the prompt lifting of deeply harmful restrictions on women and girls, are crucial for Afghanistan to succeed as a country and society, the UN’s Deputy Head of Mission there told the Security Council today.
The General Assembly hall filled with feminists from around the world as the Commission on the Status of Women began its annual two-week gathering with a contentious recorded vote to adopt its outcome document.
Critical minerals now underpin the technologies powering the digital economy and the energy transition, the Security Council heard today, as speakers said soaring demand for such resources creates opportunity for development but also geopolitical competition that could lead to conflict if not governed responsibly.
Digital education, when designed with robust safeguards, can ensure children can access learning even when conflict shuts down schools, the Security Council heard today at its first March meeting under the United States presidency of that body.
Military strikes on Iran by Israel and the United States, and Iran’s counter attacks on United States army bases in Gulf countries, threatened to ignite a wider war in the Middle East, delegates told an emergency meeting of the Security Council today, as the parties traded claims of unjustified action.
While buoyed by the holding of combined presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections on 28 December 2025, gains made in the Central African Republic in recent years are fragile and require international support to consolidate, the Security Council heard today.
The General Assembly’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened its first resumed session today to consider key matters under its purview, including issues related to the Organization’s liquidity crisis, the geographical diversity of staff, air travel, staff contract types, supply chain management, and modernization of technology infrastructure.
Marking the fourth anniversary of the bloody conflict still raging in Ukraine, the General Assembly today adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, full and unconditional ceasefire, as delegates voiced varying degrees of hope and scepticism over ongoing United States-facilitated peace talks.
As the Russian Federation’s war on Ukraine enters its fifth year, the Security Council today heard that ongoing diplomatic efforts must first yield an immediate ceasefire, and then a lasting peace, to finally end the widespread suffering wrought by prolonged conflict.
As Sudan marks “1,000 days of a brutal war,” the Security Council heard today that women and girls are enduring horrific sexual violence, as a civil society briefer issued a blunt warning: “Unless you act now, you will have more blood on your hands.”
