MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
To ease the Organization’s chronic cash crisis, the United Nations senior management official today presented the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) with a set of targeted measures that go beyond reduced services, hiring freezes and ...
Amid major challenges to international development cooperation, dwindling global solidarity and shrinking development assistance, a paradigm shift is urgently needed, speakers at the Economic and Social Council’s 2025 Development Cooperation ...
A ministerial-level discussion, organized by the Commission on the Status of Women, convened today to explore national strategies for empowering women and girls in Government, the economy and the workplace. Speakers shared challenges, best ...
The European Union remains the United Nations’ reliable partner of choice and a cornerstone of its financing, even amid shifting geopolitical dynamics, the Security Council heard today during its annual briefing on cooperation between the two ...
The Commission on the Status of Women continued its sixty-ninth session today holding a ministerial roundtable discussion, with speakers sharing best practices and challenges in regard to their national strategies aiming to achieve gender ...
The Commission on the Status of Women opened its sixty-ninth session today in the General Assembly, marking 30 years since the landmark 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, which pledged to achieve gender equality and uphold women’s rights. ...
Pointing to growing frustration over the lack of progress in political engagement with Afghanistan’s de facto authorities — compounded by cuts to humanitarian-aid funding that are placing additional pressure on the Afghan people — the top UN ...
Noting the approach of the International Day to Combat Islamophobia on 15 March, Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) delegates today began reviewing the proposed 2025 budget of $870,000 to support the mandate of a Special Envoy to ...
The Special Committee on Decolonization met today to approve the guidelines and rules of procedure for its 2025 Pacific Regional Seminar, which will be held in Dili, Timor-Leste, from 21 to 23 May.
PRESS RELEASES
Press releases from the main United Nations bodies, as well as offices and departments of the Secretariat.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Meteorological Day, observed on 23 March:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Water Day, observed on 22 March:
On 11 March 2025, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al‑Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities enacted the amendments specified ...
Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women corporate side event “For ALL Women and Girls: The Beijing+30 Action Agenda”:
Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the SEforALL Global Forum 2025 “Sustainable Energy for Equity, Security and Prosperity” in Bridgetown, Barbados:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, observed on 21 March:
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the sixty-ninth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women: From Beijing+30 to the Second World Social Summit for Social Development: Accelerating Women ...
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the town hall meeting with civil society on the occasion of the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message on the International Day of Nowruz, observed on 21 March:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the launch of the Children and Armed Conflict Campaign “Prove It Matters” in Geneva, Switzerland, today: