The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that in Gaza City, along with UN partners, mental health and psychosocial support services are being provided to tens of thousands of people and solid waste that has piled up along Tareq bin Zeyad Street is being picked up.
The Sixth Committee (Legal) today took note of the oral reports of four of its Working Groups, deferred nine requests for observer status and heard from its focal point on revitalizing the General Assembly’s work.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Leonard Zulu of Zimbabwe as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Uganda, with the host Government’s approval, on 1 November.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Alejandro Alvarez of Argentina as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Honduras, with the host Government’s approval, on 2 November 2024.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Susan Ngongi Namondo of Cameroon as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the United Republic of Tanzania, with the host Government’s approval, on 1 November 2024.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the award ceremony for the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, in Vienna today:
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today began its general debate on United Nations peacekeeping operations, with senior UN officials emphasizing the importance of accountability to maintain trust in peacekeepers and calling for increased gender parity in missions.
The recent and fourth extension of South Sudan’s transitional period must be the last, the UN’s top official in the world’s youngest nation told the Security Council today, as he conveyed the people’s “deep frustration and fatigue” with their leaders’ persistent delays in implementing the peace agreement and in realizing their long-held aspirations for peace and democracy.
The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) was unable to conclude its session today, as more time is needed to consider remaining drafts concerning nuclear and conventional weapons, and outer space, on which separate provisions and amendments will be considered, however, it completed action on all other scheduled drafts, approving most without a vote.
The just released UN Environment Programme’s Adaptation Gap Report says that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts and urgently close the $187-359 billion per year gap that exists between adaptation finance needs and current international public adaptation finance flows.
