While advances in digital technology offer incredible opportunities to create a better future for all, “breakthroughs must be oriented towards the good”, the leader of the United Nations told the Security Council today during a day-long debate on evolving cyberspace threats, during which speakers spotlighted myriad examples of the opposite.

The thirty-fourth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was held at Headquarters from 10 to 14 June.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the Health Effects Institute, an independent United States-based nonprofit organization, today released a report that says air pollution is having an increasing impact on human health, becoming the second leading global risk factor for death.

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been “a success story”, senior United Nations officials told the General Assembly today, as delegates spotlighted significant gains in the fight against the widespread disease as well as the remaining challenges to ending the public health scare by 2030.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, delivered on behalf of the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly’s annual review of HIV/AIDS, in New York today:

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the meeting with the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in Paris today:

Amid a political stalemate, insecurity and arms embargo violations, the commencement of voter registration for municipal elections is a positive note in Libya’s troubled and divided landscape, the Security Council heard today.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the Transforming Education Summit stocktake event, in Paris today:

The World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up its food and nutrition assistance programme in West and Central Africa, targeting 7.3 million people during the ongoing June to August lean season.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the conference on the six-year anniversary of the signing of the Prespa Agreement on the name issue, in Athens today: