MEETINGS COVERAGE
Summaries of official meetings and events at UN Headquarters and overseas conferences.
The General Assembly today adopted two resolutions, the first marking 5 September as an international day for Indigenous women and girls and the second — considered concurrently with a similar text in the Security Council — concerning the annual ...
The Security Council today unanimously adopted resolution 2805 (2025) (to be issued as document S/RES/2805(2025)), reaffirming the mandate of the Peacebuilding Commission, acting in parallel with the General Assembly, which adopted an identical ...
The recent arrest by German authorities of the alleged Libyan war criminal Khaled el Hishri — and his expected imminent handover to the International Criminal Court — mark a major step forward in long-delayed efforts to bring accountability for ...
The Security Council today decided to again extend its authorizations concerning the arms embargo on Libya for a further six months.
The Palestinian people do not need a peace plan, "what we need is a justice plan", Mosab Abu Toha, poet, founder of the Edward Said Library and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, told the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the ...
The Security Council met today to consider pathways for advancing to the second phase of implementing the "Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict", also known as the 20-point plan, announced by United States President Donald Trump in late ...
With human trafficking rapidly expanding and growing more technologically sophisticated, the General Assembly today adopted a sweeping Political Declaration reaffirming global resolve to end what top UN officials call "one of humanity’s gravest ...
Nearly four years into the war in Ukraine, attacks continue to escalate and casualties keep rising — with figures from January to October 2025 already surpassing the total for all of last year — a senior UN official told the Security Council ...
While a recent initiative triggering a General Assembly meeting each time a Security Council veto is cast has yielded more scrutiny and given non-members a stronger voice, fresher and even more radical changes — including reform of the Council ...
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 Human Rights Day, under the theme "Human Rights: Our Everyday Essentials", observed on 10 December:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime, observed on 9 December:
The 2025 United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East will take place on Monday, 1 December, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in Conference Room 6.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
On 13 November 2025, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolution 2713 (2023) concerning Al-Shabaab held informal consultations to be briefed by the Coordinator of the Panel of Experts pursuant to resolution 2713 (2023) on the Panel’s ...
The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:
The Panel of External Auditors’ sixty-fifth session, chaired by Gareth Davies, Comptroller and Auditor General of the United Kingdom, was held from 24 to 25 November at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, observed on 5December:
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Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, delivered by Chef de Cabinet Earle Courtenay Rattray, to the special meeting commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, in New York today: