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Accomplishing Sustainable Development Goals Will Help Make Caribbean World’s First Climate-Resilient Region, Deputy Secretary-General Tells ‘United Together’ Concert

DSG/SM/1494

Accomplishing Sustainable Development Goals Will Help Make Caribbean World’s First Climate-Resilient Region, Deputy Secretary-General Tells ‘United Together’ Concert

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the United Nations Barbados and Eastern Caribbean United Together:  Shaping Our Future concert, in Barbados today:

‘Censorship Kills Scholarship’ Expert Warns Third Committee, amid Broad Calls for Upholding Rights in Myanmar, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

GA/SHC/4301

‘Censorship Kills Scholarship’ Expert Warns Third Committee, amid Broad Calls for Upholding Rights in Myanmar, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Stressing that “censorship kills scholarship”, the United Nations expert on free expression launched a passionate defence of academia as a bastion of ideas that all too often comes under siege by States seeking to control or supress the flow of information, as Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) delegates continued their interactive dialogues on broad questions of human rights today.

Tackling Host Country Report, Sixth Committee Speakers Highlight Abuses of Headquarters Agreement, Urge Secretary-General to Invoke Arbitration

GA/L/3623

Tackling Host Country Report, Sixth Committee Speakers Highlight Abuses of Headquarters Agreement, Urge Secretary-General to Invoke Arbitration

Complaints and concerns about the abuse of the Headquarters Agreement by the United States dominated discussion in the Sixth Committee (Legal) today, as delegations took up the report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.  (For background, see Press Release GA/L/3622.)

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