The Security Council met this afternoon to hear a briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine.  Addressing the Council was Sigrid Kaag, Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza pursuant to ...

More than seven years after it created a mechanism to analyse evidence of human rights abuses in Syria, the General Assembly today considered the work of this body — the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria — and heard a ...

The Security Council today failed to adopt its first-ever resolution on outer space — one that would have affirmed the obligation of all States parties to fully comply with the Outer Space Treaty, including not to place in orbit around the Earth ...

The Economic and Social Council’s Financing for Development Forum to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and other financing for development outcomes, as well as the means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), continued ...

The Security Council met this morning on the situation in the Great Lakes region. Briefing the Council were Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian ...

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues continued its twenty-third session today, during which it discussed future efforts to implement the provisions of the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and emerging issues.

The Economic and Social Council’s Financing for Development Forum to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and other financing for development outcomes, as well as the means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), entered a ...

The global escalation of conflict-related sexual violence — disproportionately affecting women and girls — must be addressed through demilitarization, enforcement of arms embargoes, gender-responsive arms control and strengthened accountability ...

Amidst ongoing paralysis in the Security Council due to the proliferating use — and misuse — of the veto despite escalating global crises, speakers in the General Assembly today called for action to ensure that casting one is not the end of ...