Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, observed on 17 October:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President María Cristina Perceval (Argentina):
The United Nations Academic Impact will launch the J. Michael Adams Conversation series on 21 October, with an inaugural lecture by the well-known Saudi Arabian scientist Hayat Sindi.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, today:
The scope and application of universal jurisdiction must be clearly defined to avoid abuse of the principle, which could endanger international law, order and security, speakers told the Sixth Committee (Legal) today.
From battlefields in Iraq and Syria to online predators and recruitment by armed groups, children were facing an ever broadening number of threats and States must put words into action, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today, as it began deliberations on children’s rights, one month away from the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Secretary-General’s synthesis report would launch negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda, delegates in the Second Committee (Economics and Finance) heard today as it began its discussion of sustainable development.
Equitable access to and effective harnessing of space knowledge and technology were critical to the success of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) heard today, as it began its consideration of international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
The development of new technologies of warfare, including autonomous weapons or ”killer robots” and cyberwarfare, raised fundamental concerns about the acceptability of allowing machines to independently take life-and-death decisions, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today.
In the Security Council today, officials of the United Nations and affected countries alike continued to sound the alarm on the devastating effects of the Ebola epidemic, pleading for international action that matched the magnitude of the scourge and expressing gratitude for the international aid that had already been delivered or pledged.
