Russian Federation strikes have killed over 100civilians across Ukraine this week, United Nations officials told the Security Council today, warning that intensifying attacks on cities and critical infrastructure threaten to leave millions without electricity, heating and water as winter approaches. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, […]

The Security Council today extended until 11December the 1591 Sudan sanctions regime, including targeted sanctions and an arms embargo,to permit additional time for negotiations on extending the measures. Unanimously adopting resolution 2830 (2026) (to be issued as document S/RES/2830 (2026), the Council— acting under ChapterVII of the Charter of the United Nations—also reaffirmed and extended […]

As the Sixth Committee (Legal) continued its consideration of “the rule of law at the national and international levels” today, speakers detailed how its interaction with the International Law Commission can bridge State perspectives and legal expertise. This relationship is rooted in Article 13 of the Charter of the United Nations, noted the representative of […]

The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic reports it has handed over to the Government a national criminal database for the Internal Security Forces and a coordination mechanism for security reform, both aimed at strengthening national security institutions and the rule of law.

As the United Nations undergoes a profound reform meant to increase its agility while spending less, the role of its oversight bodies is critical to assess the accompanying risks, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) warned today. Switzerland’s representative, speaking also for Liechtenstein, said the UN80 Initiative aims to make the Organization more […]

With the international financial system still an impediment to driving forward action on the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) and adaptation to the climate crisis, speakers stressed the need to reform its accessibility and architecture, while still others warned that conflict also reverses development, as the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) continued its general debate today. The […]

Developing countries paid almost a trillion dollars in net interest on public debt last year, nearly three times what they paid in 2010, due to rising borrowing costs, leaving less for health, education and other priorities, UN Trade and Development warns.

Poverty, widening inequality, conflict and violence against women are threatening hard-won social gains, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today, as speakers warn that development cannot endure when women and girls are denied fundamental rights. That link was starkest in Afghanistan, whose representative said that, five years after the Taliban’s forced takeover, poverty, […]

While detailing national efforts to prevent and combat terrorism, speakers also underlined the need for an international framework to unite them as the Sixth Committee (Legal) continued its debate on “measures to eliminate international terrorism” today. “Iraq has suffered the brunt of terrorism and has sought to combat it with all its capacities and resources,” […]

The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today heard speakers from New Caledonia call on France to stop criminalizing those fighting for freedom. As petitioners from Non-Self-Governing Territories continued to address the Committee, several speakers raised the situation in New Caledonia, a Pacific archipelago administered by France. In May2024, there was unrest in that Territory […]