The Economic and Social Council today postponed the election of 17 members to the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women, to serve three-year terms beginning 1 January 2016, for procedural reasons.
Governments at the United Nations hammering out an agreement on financing a new global development push are hearing from decision makers with a broad understanding of “return on investment”.
Nuclear disarmament was at a crossroads, with the Korean peninsula a “touch-and-go powder keg” and the oldest and newest nuclear-weapon States in sharp confrontation with each other, the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea told the Disarmament Commission today, as Member States concluded the general debate of their annual substantive session.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is calling for a pause in the hostilities around the Yarmouk camp in Damascus, Syria, along with humanitarian access to civilians who need assistance and the safe evacuation of civilians who want to leave.
The Economic and Social Council today opened the first of a series of coordination and management meetings in its 2015 session, adopting without a vote a resolution recognizing the “unprecedented” window of opportunity to combat HIV/AIDS, as well as three decisions put forward by the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening statement at the General Assembly informal interactive hearing for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the solemn commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, in New York today:
The United Nations Disarmament Commission’s significance as a platform for dialogue and cooperation had only been heightened in light of current rising global tensions and mistrust, the 193-member subsidiary body heard today during its general debate, moving into the second day of its 2015 session.
On 7 April 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to 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:
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns that children continue to be killed, injured, displaced and put at increasing risk of disease as the conflict continues in Yemen. The Agency says the conflict is exacerbating an already precarious situation for children in a country prone to food insecurity.
