United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Saturday, 28 November, from Malta to Paris, for the opening of the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as the Paris Climate Change Conference or COP21.
The institutional nature and severity of gross human rights violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea posed a threat to international peace and security, the High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Security Council today, following a rare procedural vote to approve the meeting’s provisional agenda.
The General Assembly would reaffirm that climate change “is one of the greatest challenges of our time”, and express its “profound alarm” over a global rise in greenhouse gas emissions, by the terms of one of 14 draft texts approved today without a vote by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).
Unanimously adopting five resolutions on humanitarian issues, and one resolution on countering violent extremism, the General Assembly today heard from more than two dozen speakers as the 193-member body debated the past, present and future of international assistance to persons in need.
In a message to mark Human Rights Day today, the Secretary-General spoke of the millions of refugees and internally displaced people running from war, violence and injustice. He urged the international community to not close, but open doors and guaranteed the right of all to seek asylum, without discrimination.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Human Rights Day Commemoration at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, in New York today:
On 10 December 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entries below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
On 10 December 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the COP21 Momentum for Change event in Paris today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at a panel discussion in commemoration of Human Rights Day, in New York on 9 December:
