The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The Human Rights Office says it has received reports that Da’esh has continued to forcibly transfer civilians in Iraq. It was told that trucks full of abducted civilians were taken from Hamam al-Alil to Tal Afar city. Credible reports also say 180 people were killed in Kokjali town, in eastern Mosul, on Wednesday.
While some delegates spotlighted the link between ensuring fundamental freedoms and achieving sustainable development, several others expressed concern that the Human Rights Council was overstepping its mandate, the General Assembly heard today, as it considered that body’s annual report.
The human rights situation was not getting better, but worse, the President of the Human Rights Council told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) as delegates discussed ways to counter increasing divisions within that body over the mandates under its purview.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today recommended delegates to fill dozens of vacancies in six United Nations bodies – including the essential Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions – that help the 193 delegates manage the Organization’s vast human resources and its finances.
After receiving oral reports of four different Working Groups, the Sixth committee today approved without a vote three resolutions recommending to the General Assembly requests for Observer status.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the meeting with civil society organizations to commemorate the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on climate change, in New York today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Beijing Forum 2016, today:
The General Assembly met today to elect members of the International Law Commission, the United Nations organ tasked with the progressive development of international law and its codification.
On 3 November 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan enacted the amendment specified with underline in the entry below on its Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze and travel ban set out in paragraph 7 of Security Council resolution 2290 (2016) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:
