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Ukraine: Attacks continued to intensify - Briefing | United Nations
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- Ukraine: Attacks continued to intensify - Briefing | United Nations
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- 8:13
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- 1 month ago
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- Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari told the Security Council that “five years in, the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues to test international law, drive deepening divisions, and undermine the broader rules-based multilateral order.”
Khiari said Russian attacks “continued to intensify,” during the reporting period “with mounting civilian casualties and devastation across Ukraine.”
He noted that on 9th of April, “following Ukraine's earlier proposal of an Easter ceasefire, the Russian Federation announced a 32-hour Easter truce from 11 to 12 April,” adding that Ukraine “responded that it would reciprocate.”
However, Khiari said, “this temporary pause in fighting that could have allowed a peaceful celebration of Orthodox Easter was not respected.”
On the night from 15 to 16 April, he continued, “the Russian Federation lunched its deadliest attack so far this year, targeting O...
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- 25th UN Forum on Indigenous Issues Opens
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- 1:25
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- 1 month ago
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- The 25th UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) has opened in New York, running from April 20 to May 1, 2026, with a focus on 'Ensuring Indigenous Peoples' health, including in the context of conflict'. Reappointed Chair Aluki Kotierk emphasized that environmental degradation and exclusion from decision-making profoundly impact Indigenous well-being. Addressing the opening, Secretary-General António Guterres underscored that this two-week session is essential for upholding rights and protecting Indigenous communities.
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- Next Secretary-General & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (20 April 2026) | United Nations
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- 30:38
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- 1 month ago
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- Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
Next Secretary-General
Financing for Development Week
Financing for Development
Indigenous People
UNIFIL
Lebanon
Gaza
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Middle East Envoy
Security Council
Haiti
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Exhibitions
Chinese Language Day
Financial Contribution
Guest
NEXT SECRETARY-GENERAL
On Tuesday and Wednesday, candidates for the position of Secretary-General will take part in interactive dialogues in which they will outline their vision for the United Nations and answer questions from Member States and civil society. Discussions will focus on their leadership experience and qualifications, reform of the UN as well as the three pillars of the United Nations: peace and security, development, and human rights. These dialogues repr...
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- $4 Trillion Gap: UN Chief's Urgent Call to Reform Global Finance - FfD Forum 2026 | United Nations
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- 7:07
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- 1 month ago
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- Secretary-General António Guterres today (20 Apr) called for translating the promises made in Sevilla into concrete progress and said governments “are spending more on the instruments of death than the foundations of development and peace,” while the global financial system “is struggling to meet the needs of developing countries.”
Guterres said, “Sevilla was a moment of choice. At a time when multilateralism is under multiple threats, Member States made a choice to stand together. To overcome geopolitical divisions and chart a common course. And to keep their promises to developing countries, which are starved of investment and drowning in debt.”
He said the world now faces “a major new shock: the conflict in the Middle East.”
Guterres said, “the violence and economic fallout are spilling across the region — and around the world. We are seeing in real time the war’s impacts on the cost of fuel, fertilizer and food — as well as t...
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- Young People as Drivers of Gender Equality - SDG Media Zone | United Nations
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- 21:19
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- 1 month ago
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- Achieving gender equality is foundational to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and underscore that youth are not just future leaders, but current architects of a more inclusive global society. As the world faces pushback on women’s rights, this session will highlight how young advocates and activists are using digital innovation and grassroots organizing to dismantle gender-based violence and economic inequality.
Moderator
Aishworya Shrestha, Young Leader for SDGs, UN Youth Office
SPEAKERS
Hanna Mulugeta Melaku, Youth Reference Group
Yasmine Aburaya, Founder of Your Voice Initiative and Youth Leader in Gender Equality and Civic Engagement
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- Shaping Africa’s Climate Future - SDG Media Zone | United Nations
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- 23:17
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- 1 month ago
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- Africa is on the frontlines of the climate crisis, warming faster than the global average and facing disproportionate climate impacts despite contributing the least to global greenhouse gas emissions. This is particularly evident in the growing pressures that climate change is placing on water resources and systems across the continent. As water underpins agriculture, livelihoods, ecosystems, and energy production, water-related climate impacts are deepening inequalities and threatening sustainable development across Africa.
African youth are driving critical climate innovations, advancing practical solutions, and changing the continent’s climate future. This dialogue aims to spotlight Africa’s youth innovators at the forefront of addressing climate change impacts, highlighting their leadership in building resilient communities, strengthening water security, and advancing global climate solutions.
Moderator
Damon Hamman, Graduate Student, New York Un...
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- South Sudan: A UN Mission's Fight for Peace and Protection - UNMISS Briefing | United Nations
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- 11:37
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- 1 month ago
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- Briefing by Anita Kiki Gbeho, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, on Sudan and South Sudan - Security Council, 10139th meeting.
Presenting the report, the newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of UNMISS, Anita Kiki Gbeho, said, the operating environment in South Sudan “has become more complex,” since the last mandate renewal.
Gbeho said, “political tensions, escalating security incidents and humanitarian pressures increasingly reinforce one another. Economic stress, climate related shocks, and the spill-over from the conflict in Sudan compound these challenges.”
She told the Council the security situation “remains deeply concerning, as “fighting between the South Sudan People's Defence Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement / Army in Opposition, particularly in Jonglei, has intensified, and in...
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- Turning the Tide: Defending Our Ocean’s Future - SDG Media Zone | United Nations
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- 12:10
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- 1 month ago
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- At this critical juncture for our ocean, endurance swimmer and UNEP Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh joins the Executive Director of UNEP Inger Andersen for a powerful conversation on the state of the seas.
From the frontlines of polar swims to high-level environmental negotiations, they explore the urgent priorities for UNOC-3 — from plastic pollution and marine biodiversity to blue finance and the 30x30 global commitment. With insights from Pugh's headline-making Shark Swim campaign and UNEP's science-backed strategies, this session challenges world leaders to match the ocean's resilience with bold, immediate action to secure a sustainable future for all.
Speakers:
- Lewis Pugh, UNEP Patron of the Oceans
- Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP
Moderator:
- Martina Donlon, Officer-in-Charge, Sustainable Development Section, UN Department of Global Communications
Join us during the UN Ocean Conference from Jun...
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- UN YOUTH FORUM 2026
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- 1:58
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- 1 month ago
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- The United Nations ECOSOC Youth Forum took place from 14 to 16 April 2026 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Forum focused on transformative, equitable, innovative, and coordinated actions to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.
UN Video interviewed four of the UN Youth Office’s Reference Group during the Forum.
For more: https://www.un.org/youthaffairs/en/youth-reference-group
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- Addressing the Youth Unemployment Crisis - SDG Media Zone | United Nations
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- 18:31
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- 1 month ago
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- A sustainable and inclusive future depends on achieving inclusive economic growth and decent work for all. Yet young people aged 15 to 24 continue to face persistent barriers to accessing meaningful and productive employment. This session will highlight the bold, innovative ways in which young advocates are leading change to ensure that every young person can access productive employment, regardless of gender, income, or socio‑economic background.
Moderator
Bora Kamwanya, Vice-President, Pan African Youth Union
Speakers
Puneet Singh Singhal, Co-founder of Billion Strong and member of UN Youth Office Reference Group
Lindsey Huahuamullo, Founder of ImpactaYA and member of UN Youth Office Reference Group
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- Poetry as Resistance: Remembering Slavery, Demanding Justice - Poets Laureate | United Nations
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- 30:10
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The Poet Laureate of Barbados, Ms. Esther Phillips, and Ms. Shahaddah Jack, the first Youth Poet Laureate of Toronto, participated in the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 25 March 2026 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. While there, they sat down in a UNTV studio to reflect on the power of poetry and art in confronting history, honoring memory, and demanding justice.
The conversation was organized by the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery.
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- Young People are 'Ready For Change'
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- 0:57
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- 1 month ago
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- "Young people are ready to lead the change.”
This year, the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum focused on transformative, equitable, innovative, and coordinated actions to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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- Protecting the Planet's Ocean w/ Fabien Cousteau - SDG Media Zone | 2025 UN Ocean Conference
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- 15:23
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- 1 month ago
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- Conversation with Fabien Cousteau, Aquanaut, Ocean Conservationist, and Documentary Filmmaker.
Join ITV News Anchor Rageh Omaar in conversation with Fabien Cousteau, the renowned ocean explorer, environmentalist, and grandson of the legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau—as he takes us beneath the surface of our planet's most critical ecosystems. Cousteau has spent a lifetime exploring the deep sea, changing our perceptions of life underwater and advocating for its protection. Cousteau will share powerful stories from the frontlines of marine conservation, from the vibrant coral reefs of the tropics to the rapidly changing waters of Antarctica. This discussion will be an eye-opening journey through Earth's last wild frontiers—and a call to action to protect them.
Speaker:
Fabien Cousteau, Aquanaut, Ocean Conservationist, and Documentary Filmmaker
Moderator:
Rageh Omaar, News Anchor, ITV News
Join us during t...
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- Gaza's women fight for survival | United Nations
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- 1:32
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- 1 month ago
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- Between October 2023 and December 2025, more than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza, the result of Israeli air bombardment and land military operations, UN Women said on Friday. Women from Gaza share their stories of struggling to survive.
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- South Sudan: Despair, Abandonment & a Humanitarian Crisis Out of Control - Presser | United Nations
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- 7:31
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- 1 month ago
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- Briefing by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on Sudan and South Sudan - Security Council, 10139th meeting.
Briefing via VTC from Berlin, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Tom Fletcher described his recent visit to South Sudan and said, “I was told again and again of a feeling of despair and abandonment, and with good reason. The world's youngest nation stands at a dangerous crossroads. Conflict up, displacement up, hunger up, disease up, attacks on aid workers up, funding down. Two out of every three people need humanitarian support this year. Yet the hyper-prioritised $1.46 billion plan is only 22 percent funded.”
In Jonglei, Fletcher said, he met “families uprooted again and again.”
He said, “women told me that they fled extreme violence. Their homes have be...
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- Sudan: Women & Girls Continue to Experience Gender-Based Violence- Press Conference | United Nations
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- 9:59
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- 1 month ago
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- Press conference by Fabrizia Falcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan, on the situation in the Country.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan, Fabrizia Falcione said women and girls across Sudan continue to experience gender-based violence in their daily live. “They feel unsafe,” she said.
Falcione briefed reporter via video link today (17 Apr) from Khartoum. She said, “women and girls have a persistent sense of danger. 76 percent of the women aged between 25 and 49 have reported feeling unsafe in the displacement camps and sites, but also outside the camps, in markets, water points, in firewood collection areas, roads and streets, particularly at night when going to the latrines in distribution areas, and equally in urban and rural areas.”
The UNFPA official noted that reporting cases of gender-based violence remains “extremely difficult,” due to stigma, the fear...
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- Iran, Lebanon, Palestine & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (17 April 2026) | United Nations
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- 22:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
Secretary-General/Travel
Middle East
Lebanon
Lebanon/Humanitarian
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Lacroix/Trip Announcement
Mexico
Security Council/South Sudan
Cameroon
Haiti
Haiti/Humanitarian
Afghanistan
Exhibition/Sudan
Guest
SECRETARY-GENERAL/TRAVEL
Today, in The Hague, the Secretary-General addressed a solemn sitting to celebrate the 80th anniversary of International Court of Justice inaugural session.
The Secretary-General said that it is easy to forget the world of eighty years ago. Europe, and far beyond, lay in ruins, and The Hague itself was scarred and shaken. And yet, he said, in that dark and difficult moment, world leaders made a defining choice, a choice to reject a future ruled by coercion and violence, and to embrace a future rooted...
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- HungerMap Live Launch - Press Conference | United Nations
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- 18:30
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- 1 month ago
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- Jean Martin Bauer, World Food Programme (WFP), Director of Food Security and Nutrition Analysis, briefed on HungerMap Live.
World Food Programme (WFP) released today (19 Apr), HungerMap Live; a modernized intelligence platform that turns data on global hunger into early action.
WFP’s next-generation platform is a powerful digital monitoring and intelligence capability that integrates a wide range of food security data and analysis with predictive modelling to help fight hunger in more than 50 countries.
At a time of rising food security needs and limited funding for humanitarian action, HungerMap Live provides the most complete and updated picture of hunger in the world’s most vulnerable countries.
HungerMap Live offers AI-assisted forecasting capabilities of projected food needs in WFP designated Hunger Hotspots – 16 countries with populations already struggling with catastrophic hunger.
Studies have shown that ear...
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- Why Youth Mental Health Matters - SDG Media Zone | United Nations
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- 19:01
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Good mental health is the foundation for every young person to learn, connect, and contribute meaningfully to society. However, today’s youth face a uniquely challenging climate, navigating intense political polarization and the rapid rise of AI-driven disruption. These issues often threaten emotional well-being and can be detrimental to personal growth. Drawing on the UN Youth Office’s 2025 Flagship Initiative, this session will show how poverty, education, and decent work shape well-being, especially in light of technological advances and how that affects young people everywhere.
Moderator
António Pedro Tavares Pinho, People Next Generation Fellow, UN Foundation
Speakers
Nattanicha Kattiyavara, Youth Reference Group
Maria Barreneche, Youth Advocacy & Well-being International Specialist, UN Youth Office
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- Israel on Ceasefire with Lebanon - Security Council Media Stakeout | United Nations
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- 8:03
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Remarks by Ambassador Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, on the situation in the Middle East.
Danon told reporters, “in one hour at 5 pm our time, a ten-day ceasefire will come into effect between Israel and Lebanon as Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed. We got to this point as a result of the IDF's heroic actions in pushing back Hezbollah in many operations, including the pager attacks and the elimination of Nasrallah.”
Speaking to reporters today (16 Apr) in New York, Ambassador Danon criticized the UN Secretary-General’s “outrageous remarks” made earlier this week.
Ambassador Danon said, “in the very day Israel and Lebanon were engaged in historic negotiations. He went so far as to claim that Israel and Hezbollah have, and I quote ‘helped each other to destabilize Lebanon.’ That is simply false.”
The Israeli Ambassador continued, “at a historic moment, when the region is takin...
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- Lebanon, Gaza, Ukraine & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (16 April 2026) | United Nations
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- 23:54
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- 1 month ago
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- Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
Secretary-General/Travels
Secretary-General/Washington
Lebanon
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Ukraine
Sudan
Abyei
MONUSCO
SECRETARY-GENERAL/TRAVELS
This morning, the Secretary-General arrived in The Hague to participate in the commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the International Court of Justice, which will take place tomorrow at the Peace Palace.
This afternoon, the Secretary-General met with the Mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen.
Afterward, the Secretary-General said that he couldn’t be in The Hague in a better moment, as we mark the 80th anniversary of the International Court of Justice that is the fundamental pillar of the international justice system.
He added that “this is a difficult moment, a moment in which international law has been putting...
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- What is the International Court of Justice? 5 Facts
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- 0:56
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- 1 month ago
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- For 80 years, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has served as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, helping to settle legal disputes between States in accordance with international law.
The Court has addressed issues including territorial disputes, the use of force, and the interpretation of international conventions, including cases involving allegations of genocide.
Today, the Court is also being asked to clarify legal obligations related to global challenges such as climate change.
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- DRC: No peace while women are “spoils of war" - Security Council Briefing | United Nations
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- 8:49
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Briefing by Sima Sami Bahous, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), on the situation in the Great Lakes Region.
Bahous said that peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will only be secured when women are treated not as “spoils of war” but as empowered agents of stability, accountability and peace.
She also asked the Council to protect the peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, and “its critical mandate in the DRC. And recall the hundreds of trials against perpetrators of conflict-related sexual violence. Recall the women activists and human rights defenders who have enjoyed MONUSCO’s protection.”
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- UN Peacekeeping Chief Warns Budget Cuts Threaten Missions and Personnel Safety | United Nations
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- 10:48
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix**UN Peacekeeping Chief Warns Budget Cuts Threaten Missions and Personnel Safety** told the Security Council that Peacekeeping “must remain adaptable and accountable,” and stressed that budgetary cuts are creating “major constraints on the ability of the missions to implement their political and protection of civilian mandates, as well as to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel.”
Lacroix, addressing the annual briefing from the heads of military components of UN peacekeeping operations, said UN peacekeeping “is and remains a useful political tool, used by the international community to help parties to put an end to armed conflict and move towards lasting peace.”
He said, “prioritized and focused mandates from this Council that are adequately resourced and can be recalibrated to evolving needs and situations should be the starting point,” and pointed out that troop and police contributing countries...
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- Yemen: 22 million people need humanitarian aid, the number is rising - Briefing | United Nations
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- 5:24
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told the Council that more than 22 million people, nearly half of Yemen's population, need humanitarian aid, and that number is rising.
“This crisis is hitting the most vulnerable first and hardest. Hunger is tightening its grip,” Wosornu said, adding that more than 18 million people face severe hunger and two out of every three families are forced to skip meals every day.
The nutrition crisis continues unabated, she said, with 2.2 million children under the age of five acutely malnourished and 1.3 million pregnant and breastfeeding women facing life-threatening complications due to malnutrition. “For too many children, too many mothers, this means irreversible, lifelong physical and cognitive damage, stunting – even death,” Wosornu said.
She warned that Yemen's health system is collapsing, with two out of every five health facil...
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- Great Lakes: "Security at Worrisome Level" - Security Council Briefing | United Nations
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- 16:56
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Briefing by Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, on the situation in the region.
Xia updated ambassadors on the recent escalation of violence. He said that since last October, while the region has seen considerable intensification in diplomatic initiatives, "the humanitarian and security situations have worsened to a worrisome level.
The continued erosion of trust in part explains the divide between political commitments and the reality on the ground.
He stressed, "This disconnect remains today our main collective challenge.”
Xia warned, “The risk of a slide into a regional confrontation remains tangible. This Council cannot afford to see the repetition of a cycle of violence it has been examining for far too long: the full implementation of resolutions 2773 (2025) and 2808 (2025) is urgent.”
He concluded, “I therefore call on the DRC, Rwanda, and all the actors concerned, in particular the AFC...
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- In #lebanon, UN refugee chief says resilience has limits
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- 1:03
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- 1 month ago
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- UN refugee chief Barham Salih calls for an end to the war in Lebanon after visiting displaced families in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. One in five people in Lebanon is now displaced.
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- Lebanon, Iran & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (15 April 2026) | United Nations
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- 20:07
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Secretary-General travel
- Iran
- UNIFIL
- Lebanon/Humanitarian
- Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Sudan
- Security Council
- Central African Republic
- Andaman Sea
- Wellness Day
IRAN
The Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Middle East Conflict and its Consequences, Jean Arnault, is visiting the Sultanate of Oman. He is meeting with senior Omani officials to listen to their unique perspective on the conflict and discuss the potential contribution of the United Nations to its settlement.
Meanwhile, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, yesterday allocated $12 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support the humanitarian response in the country.
The CERF funding will support life-saving activities in health, water, sanitation and hy...
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- Fleeing Sudan's war, refugees rebuild their lives in Uganda | United Nations
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- As the war in Sudan enters its fourth year, the most acute loss is the country’s greatest asset: its people. Sudanese refugees in Uganda appreciate the welcome they have received, seek international support, and contribute to their societies, even as they have been forced to leave behind productive lives they hope to soon resume in Sudan.
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- Yemen: highly exposed to economic repercussions of the regional escalation-Briefing | United Nations
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- 9:06
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- “Yemen remains highly exposed to the economic repercussions of the regional escalation, and as the global situation has made clear, it is always the poorest and most vulnerable who bear the heaviest burden,” Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen said.
Briefing the Security Council, Grundberg also said, “Yemenis across the country have long contended with inadequate public services, delayed salaries, and rising prices, and they will now have to contend with import disruptions and higher fuel and food prices triggered by wider conflict in the Middle East.”
Yemen continues to be affected by spillover from the regional crisis that began with US‑Israeli strikes against Iran on 28 February. The Houthis–a Yemeni rebel group holding de facto control over northern Yemen that is part of an Iran-backed coalition of armed groups known as the “axis of resistance”—had paused their attacks on Israel and on Red Sea shipping followi...
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- Middle East: Wholesale assault on international law - UN Chief's Media Stakeout | United Nations
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- 7:15
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated that there is no military solution to the conflict in the Middle East, calling for restraint and responsibility, diplomacy over escalation, and a renewed commitment to international law. “International law is indispensable,” he said.
The UN chief spoke to reporters today in New York before heading to The Hague to mark the eightieth anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Guterres said, “justice is meant to be blind. But today, too many are choosing to turn a blind eye to justice itself.”
“Around the world – and starkly in the Middle East – respect for international law is being trampled,” the Secretary- General said, adding “rules governing the use of force and the conduct of hostilities are ignored. Civilians are exposed to intolerable harm. Humanitarian obligations are disregarded. Even the protections afforded to the United Nations and our personnel are violated....
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- Pace of transitional justice in #Syria offers hope - UN expert
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Syria has made 'remarkable progress' on transitional justice just one year after the fall of the Assad regime. But despite the immense willingness that is in place, deep-rooted stigma continues to prevent many survivors of conflict-related sexual violence from coming forward.
Sofia Candeias, from the UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict, stresses that Syria needs the support of the international community to rebuild the architecture of the rule of law, and see a new Syria emerge.
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- Population/Development: Technology reshaped almost every part of life - Briefing | United Nations
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- 6:26
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said technological innovations “have enormous potential to accelerate progress” on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) program of action, as “they are making it easier to analyse population data, treat illness, strengthen advocacy and widen access to education.”
Addressing the plenary of the fifty-ninth session of the UN Commission on Population and Development, Mohammed said, “technology has reshaped almost every part of human life, from smartphones to social media, from artificial intelligence to biotechnology” and population and sustainable development “have been transformed by that shift as well.”
She noted that the risks posed by digital technologies are also “significant and the gaps are widening.”
The Deputy Secretary-General said “in high income countries, 93 percent of people use the internet. In the least developed countries, that figure falls ...
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- Sudan: 3-Year-Old Conflict has become a cycle of endless suffering- Press Conference| United Nations
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- 11:06
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan called the three-year-old conflict there “an abandoned crisis,” warning that the scale of atrocities has yet to move the world to act.
Briefing reporters in New York, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan Denise Brown said the situation in the country has become a cycle of suffering with no end in sight.
“We really are on repeat in Sudan - repeats of sexual violence, repeated displacement, repeated deaths,” Brown said. “It feels like we're stuck in this cycle, and everything is being repeated.”
Brown said the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, had documented patterns of sexual violence, citing a recent MSF report for Darfur entitled “No Safe Space Left for Women and Girls in Darfur.” The organization has treated close to 2,500 survivors of sexual violence over the past year.
“What we also need to be addressing here is the impregnation of ...
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- European Union: Strong advocate for multilateralism - Briefing | United Nations
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- 7:19
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Addressing the Security Council on cooperation between the UN and the European Union, Khaled Khiari, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, said, “In an increasingly complex and uncertain international environment, sustained engagement, dialogue and trust-building are essential. Respect for international law and the Charter of the United Nations remains central to addressing shared challenges. The European Union plays an important role in advancing these principles.”
He also said, “We are particularly grateful for the role of European Union member states as troop- and police-contributing countries, including in challenging environments, such as Lebanon, and in intergovernmental processes, including the Peacebuilding Commission. At a time when advancing political solutions remains difficult in many contexts, the support of the European Union to the United Nations’ good offices, mediation and political engagement i...
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- Middle East, Iran, Lebanon & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (13 April 2026) | United Nations
- Runtime
- 26:34
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
Middle East
Iran
Lebanon/Israel
Lebanon/Humanitarian
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Iraq
Deputy Secretary-General/Nigeria
Sudan/Berlin Conference
Security Council
Haiti
Senior Personnel Appointment/UNMISS
Cyprus
Central African Republic
Ukraine/Children and Armed Conflict
Afghanistan
Football for the Goals
Guests Today and Tomorrow
MIDDLE EAST
After weeks of destruction and distress, it is clear that there is no military solution to the current conflict in the Middle East.
While no agreement was reached at the talks hosted by Pakistan between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran in Islamabad, the discussions themselves underscored the seriousness of their engagement and constituted a positive and meaningful step toward renewed dial...
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- #Sudan: UN Official Pleas for Funding for World's Most Complex Emergency
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Denise Brown, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan. She will brief reporters virtually on the three-year mark of the conflict in Sudan.
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- Small Island Developing States: Leaders for Ocean Action - SDG Media Zone | 2025 UN Ocean Conference
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- 35:46
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Conversation on how Small Island Developing States can use the ocean to support food security, climate action and more.
This panel will explore how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can use the ocean to support food security, climate action, disaster risk reduction, justice, and sustainable growth. Speakers will discuss key ways to scale up ocean-friendly solutions and help SIDS achieve SDG14. The session will also introduce UNDP's new SIDS Strategy, aligned with the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda, and highlight the GEF-funded, UNDP-led Blue and Green Islands Programme.
Speakers:
Francine Pickup, UNDP Deputy Assistant Administrator, Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, and Head of UNDP Delegation for UNOC3
Tania Serafim Yvonne Romualdo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Cabo Verde to the UN
Rebecca Fabrizi, UK SIDS Envoy
Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Pa'olelei Luteru, Ambassador and Per...
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- Antarctica: The Climate Frontline - SDG Media Zone | 2025 UN Ocean Conference
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- 18:04
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Conversation with Martin Stew, Science Correspondent, ITV News.
Antarctica is warming fast—three degrees hotter than in the 1950s—putting wildlife and the global climate at risk. It's home to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the only ocean current linking all major oceans. Record-low sea ice means this is the latest in winter a ship has reached Antarctica.
Scientists are studying melting glaciers, nutrient release, and underwater tsunamis caused by ice break-off. ITV News' Science team joins the RRS David Attenborough for a month-long mission with exclusive access to British Antarctic Survey scientists.
What happens in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica—and what scientists uncover could shape our warming world's future.
Speakers:
Martin Stew, Science Correspondent, ITV News
Moderator:
Rageh Omaar, News Anchor, ITV News
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The UN Ocean Conference was held from June 9-13, 2025, and focu...
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- Her Rhythm: Women in Jazz | United Nations
- Runtime
- 35:02
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Women in jazz are reshaping the future of the music industry through leadership, education, and advocacy, while navigating and challenging long-standing gender barriers within the field.
Convened during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the UN Office for Partnerships hosted a dedicated convening in collaboration with WBGO, a leading non-profit arts and cultural institution and jazz radio station, and JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, one of the nation’s preeminent arts and education organizations. The event featured a panel discussion and live performance, spotlighting the leadership of women in jazz as a creative force for cultural participation, artistic heritage and social change.
You can watch the full performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcT7G9RzEfA
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- Is UN Peacekeeping relevant? | United Nations
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- In its nearly 80-year history, the relevance of peacekeeping has been questioned repeatedly. In today’s complex conflict environment, UN peacekeeping is being asked to do more with less amid 25% cuts to its global personnel and finds itself at a crossroads. Should the international community find another solution to address challenges to peace? Hear from Lieutenant General Mohan Subramanian, former Force Commander of the UN Mission in South Sudan (2022–2026), who currently serves as the Director of the Office for Peacekeeping Strategic Partnership.
The 'Invest In Peace' video series features voices from across United Nations peace and security, highlighting how peacekeeping protects civilians and aids political solutions, and why sustained investment in peace is essential to building a safer future. Find out more: peacekeeping.un.org/
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- Haiti: Half of population in need of humanitarian aid - OCHA Press Conference | United Nations
- Runtime
- 22:56
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- “The very ground I was walking on, the very place people were sleeping on at night,” the UN's top humanitarian official said Friday, describing conditions inside overcrowded displacement shelters in Haiti as she warned the country is facing one of the most severe and rapidly deteriorating crises in the Western Hemisphere.
Edem Wosornu, Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Crisis Response Division, said more than half the country's population now in need of assistance and donors having funded just a fraction of last year's appeal.
"We only received 27 percent of what we asked for last year," Wosornu said at a press briefing at UN headquarters in New York today (10 Apr), calling on the international community to meet an 880 million dollars appeal for 2026.
Wosornu said 6.4 million people - over half of Haiti's population of roughly 11.9 to 12 million - are in need of humanitarian assistance, with 5.7 million acu...
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- Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in #haiti Amid Surging Violence and Displacement
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Edem Wosornu, Director at the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports on a recent trip to Haiti, noting a deepening protection crisis marked by insecurity, relentless violence, mass displacement and shocking levels of gender-based violence.
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- Sudan, Lebanon, Iran & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (10 April 2026) | United Nations
- Runtime
- 15:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Highlights:
- Sudan
- Iran
- Lebanon/Humanitarian
- Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Afghanistan
- UN Women
- Financial Contribution
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SUDAN
The Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Sudan, Pekka Haavisto, is concluding today his visit to Nairobi, in Kenya, where he held productive engagements with Sudanese armed groups and civilian political actors, as well as with civil society representatives, members of the diplomatic community and Kenyan authorities. In his meetings, Mr. Haavisto stressed the urgent need to pursue practical measures to deescalate the conflict and ensure the protection of civilians.
Mr. Haavisto reiterated that the conflict cannot be resolved through military means and highlighted the importance of achieving swift, tangible progress toward peace, given the devastating impact the ongoing violence is continuing to have on Sudan and its people....
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- Launch of the 2026 Financing for Sustainable Development Report - Press Conference | United Nations
- Runtime
- 26:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A new UN report warns that global financing for development is under growing pressure, threatening decades of progress.
At the launch of the 2026 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Implementing the Sevilla Commitment (FSDR 2026), Li Junhua, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said, “Development progress is imperiled by global fragmentation, geopolitical tensions and conflict. Developing countries are trapped in a catastrophic financing squeeze from compounding shocks.”
Many developing countries, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, are struggling with a severe financing squeeze.
Debt payments are at their highest level in two decades, development aid is declining, and foreign investment has dropped for the second year in a row, making it harder for countries to invest in health, education and climate resilience.
Li Junhua reported, “Development aid is falling sharply. In 2025, 25 countri...
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- Kosovo: 'Let us hope that differences can be bridged' - UNMIK's Chief Presser | United Nations
- Runtime
- 9:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Briefing by Peter Due, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, on the Secretary-General's latest report on UNMIK.
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“Let us hope that differences can be bridged, a new President can be elected and that new legislative elections can be avoided,” the new chief of UNMIK said, briefing the Security Council on the situation in Kosovo.
Peter Due, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) noted the return of Kosovo Serb mayors to local institutions in the north as a positive step but said “this process has not been without challenges,” citing “incomplete handovers, administrative gaps and language barriers” raised by mayors he had met with.
He also said UNMIK had “implemented a contingency plan reducing encumbered positions by almost 30 per cent” in response to the UN's broader financial difficulties.
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- Iran, Lebanon, Palestine & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (09 April 2026) | United Nations
- Runtime
- 25:02
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Normandy World Peace Forum
- Iran
- Lebanon
- Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Yemen
- Yemen/Humanitarian
- Sudan
- Chad/Sudan
- UN Humanitarian Flights
- Security Council
- Senior Personnel Appointment
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NORMANDY WORLD PEACE FORUM
Today, the Secretary-General addressed the Normandy World Peace Forum via a video message. He said that at a time when geopolitical upheavals, wars, inequality and the climate crisis are shaking our world to its core, peace can seem more fragile than ever. In this turmoil, he underscored, hope is not a refuge but a duty: the duty to defend international law against the law of power; to protect human rights against abuses; and to uphold human dignity against indifference.
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- Safety & Security of UN Peacekeepers - Joint Media Stakeout | United Nations
- Runtime
- 6:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Joint media Stakeout by Ambassador Umar Hadi, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations and Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations on the safety and security of UN Peacekeepers.
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Troop-contributing countries to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) joined by several other Member States and the European Union, condemned in “the strongest terms” the persistent attacks against UNIFIL, including the latest "grave" attacks which cost the lives of three Indonesian peacekeepers and injured several other peacekeepers from France, Ghana, Indonesia, Nepal and Poland.
Today (9 April), Indonesian Ambassador Umar Hadi read a joint statement on the safety and security of peacekeepers.
In the statement, countries expressed “deep concern” over the escalation of tension in Lebanon since 2nd March 2026 and its impact on the safety and security of peacekeepers.<...
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- Attacks on UN Personnel - Security Council Briefing | United Nations
- Runtime
- 13:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Briefing by Gilles Michaud, Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security, on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and the protection of United Nations and associated personnel.
Michaud noted, “Regrettably, all these perpetrators are rarely held accountable. They are rarely named and shamed, let alone prosecuted.”
He highlighted, “This is not the right forum to describe the range of measures we have implemented to keep colleagues safe. But it is the right place and time to tell you: we have stretched the security system to its limit.”
Michaud said, “We ask you to take real, consequential measures against anyone, any party, any group, any Member State that compromises the safety and security of women and men whose work saves lives.”
He also said, “We ask you to invest, politically, financially, legally, in the safety and security of these women and men, the one noble cause that should unite us all.”
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- Lebanon: Urgent Needs of Women and Girls - Press Conference | United Nations
- Runtime
- 20:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Press conference by Laila Baker, Regional Director for Arab States at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on the situation in Lebanon and the urgent needs of women and girls in the country.
