Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Environment Day, observed on 5 June:
A new exhibition entitled HOMO SARGASSUM is now open in the United Nations Headquarters Visitors’ Lobby. The exhibit is organized by the TOUT-MONDE Art FOUNDATION and endorsed by the Permanent Missions of France and Barbados to the United Nations.
The laureates of the 2025 United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize are Brenda Reynolds, a social worker of Saulteaux heritage supporting the health and well-being of Indigenous communities in Canada, and Kennedy Odede, founder and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities, a Kenyan grassroots organization providing services to urban slums.
Switzerland’s representative today urged the General Assembly’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) to stay the course on the United Nations’ nearly decade-long project to renovate its historic Geneva headquarters — a call that comes as those offices, along with UN Headquarters in New York, face the prospect of relocating staff to less expensive duty stations.
The two-State solution is on life support, the Security Council heard today from a senior United Nations official who called for urgent humanitarian assistance in Gaza while speakers for Israel and the State of Palestine accused each other of politicizing aid delivery.
In Myanmar, a new report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that the vast majority of the country’s people are united in their defiance of military authoritarianism and violence.
NEW YORK, 27 May (Department of Peace Operations) — The United Nations Headquarters will observe the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on Thursday, 29 May.
The Security Council today elected Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud (Jordan) as a member of the International Court of Justice, voting with the General Assembly simultaneously but separately to do so.
The United Nations has announced the 2024 recipients of the Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award and the Woman Police Officer of the Year Award.
Member States clashed over how to manage civil society participation in the upcoming high-level meeting on the thirtieth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth, as the General Assembly convened today to take action on a range of matters.
