To ease the Organization’s chronic cash crisis, the United Nations senior management official today presented the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) with a set of targeted measures that go beyond reduced services, hiring freezes and other spending restrictions.

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women corporate side event “For ALL Women and Girls: The Beijing+30 Action Agenda”:

Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children Najat Maalla M’jid presented her annual report to the Human Rights Council today, which highlights an alarming rise in child trafficking. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), children now represent 38 per cent of detected victims.

Amid major challenges to international development cooperation, dwindling global solidarity and shrinking development assistance, a paradigm shift is urgently needed, speakers at the Economic and Social Council’s 2025 Development Cooperation Forum stressed as they opened its annual session in New York today.

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the SEforALL Global Forum 2025 “Sustainable Energy for Equity, Security and Prosperity” in Bridgetown, Barbados:

A ministerial-level discussion, organized by the Commission on the Status of Women, convened today to explore national strategies for empowering women and girls in Government, the economy and the workplace. Speakers shared challenges, best practices and strategies to advance the Beijing Platform for Action — a global agenda adopted 30 years ago to promote gender equality and uphold women’s rights.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the sixty-ninth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women: From Beijing+30 to the Second World Social Summit for Social Development: Accelerating Women’s Empowerment through Social Protection:

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, observed on 21 March:

The United Nations welcomes the agreement signed by the leaderships of the caretaker authorities in Syria and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 10 March. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen hopes that the agreement can feed into a broader, credible and inclusive political transition process.

The European Union remains the United Nations’ reliable partner of choice and a cornerstone of its financing, even amid shifting geopolitical dynamics, the Security Council heard today during its annual briefing on cooperation between the two entities.