Opening its regular session for 2016, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 57 organizations for special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and deferred action on the status of 64 others.
The Security Council today decided to establish a political mission of unarmed international observers to monitor and verify for one year the laying down of arms by the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC-EP), should they agree to end a civil war that has raged for half a century, the longest in Latin America.
The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, in partnership with the World Jewish Congress and the Weinstein Company, will screen the acclaimed film Woman in Gold on Thursday, 28 January, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
With the failure of South Sudan to meet the 22 January deadline to establish a transitional government, the Secretary-General pledged United Nations’ continued support as the people remain subjected to unimaginable suffering and human rights abuses two years after the conflict began.
The Department of Public Information will hold a briefing for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the public on the future of Holocaust education.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the conference “The Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Lands: Legal Framework and a Call to Action”, in Marrakesh, Morocco, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, to the International Commission on Financing Global Education, in London today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General message, delivered by Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to the International Conference on Family Planning, in Bali, Indonesia, today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the UNIDO Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit in Davos on 23 January and Abu Dhabi from 10 to 12 October:
