Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at an informal plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Secretary-General’s report on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, held in New York today:

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) today launched a $1.4 billion humanitarian appeal to address the unique needs of women and girls trapped in, or uprooted by, the wave of emergencies occurring around the world.

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the eightieth anniversary of the signing of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, held in Chicago today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ video message for the thirty-first Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), held in Valletta today:

Highlighting the dire humanitarian condition in the Gaza Strip, delegates underscored the urgent need to put an end to the conflict and for measures to contain the civilian population’s suffering, as the General Assembly today resumed its tenth emergency special session on illegal Israeli actions in Occupied Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. (For background, see Press Release GA/12625.)

The new developments — no surprise — are worsening an already horrific humanitarian situation for civilians in Syria. The International Organization for Migration sent 10 trucks of critical winter supplies from Gaziantep to the country’s north-west, adding to relief items it had already prepositioned for distribution.

As the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine advances past the thousandth-day mark and ratchets up in intensity, it is “upending the lives of children”, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today, at a meeting in which speakers debated the findings of a recent investigation suggesting that Moscow has a programme facilitating the systematic transfer, adoption and naturalization of Ukrainian children.

Acting today on the recommendations of its Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) and Sixth Committee (Legal), the General Assembly today adopted a total of 65 texts, including 49 resolutions and 16 decisions addressing a wide range of international concerns tackling, among others, the effects of atomic radiation and support for the Palestinian refugee agency, as well as the codification of two international binding treaties on crimes against humanity and the protection of persons in disasters.

Following is UN Secretary‑General António Guterres’ message to the launch of the 2025 Global Humanitarian Overview, in Geneva, Nairobi and Kuwait City today:

On 4 and 5 December, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal and with financial support from Germany, will organize an Informal Regional Meeting on the New Global Framework for Through-life Conventional Ammunition Management in Kathmandu, Nepal.