Delegates Recommend Chair for Presidency of 27 August – 7 September Event Wrapping up its week-long session today, the Preparatory Committee unanimously adopted its draft report, as orally revised, for submission to the Second Review Conference on the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons. By that draft text, delegates decided unanimously […]
The Human Rights Committee met today to consider its working methods, including proposals to name a case manager, add a second working group on communications, and draw up a master calendar. The first item on the agenda was the suggestion of a “case monitor” or case manager. Earlier in the session, it had been […]
A multimedia exhibition to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby on Tuesday, 27 March at 6 p.m. This exhibit will showcase a retrospective on the scope and abolition of the slave trade with maps, photographs, illustrations […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message for World Autism Awareness Day, to be commemorated on 2 April: Autism is not limited to a single region or a country; it is a worldwide challenge that requires global action. Although developmental disabilities such as autism begin in childhood, they persist throughout a person?s life. Our […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to be observed on 25 March: The transatlantic slave trade was a tragedy because of slavery’s fundamental barbarism and immense scope, and because of its organized, systematic nature. One set of human […]
Senior United Nations and African Union officials today announced plans to launch within the next 24 hours a regional strategy targeting notorious warlord Joseph Kony and his dwindling, but still vicious, band of Lord?s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters, suspected of committing mass atrocities in Uganda during the 1990s, now preying on civilians across a broad […]
Speakers Warn Iran?s Refusal to Cooperate with International Atomic Energy Agency Has Created ?Unsustainable and Dangerous? Status Quo The head of the committee charged with monitoring sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear programme reported today on alleged violations of those measures, as Security Council members warned that Iran?s stonewalling of the United Nations nuclear-watchdog […]
Meeting also Discusses International Tracing Instrument, Elects Vice-Chair Ending human suffering was the primary purpose of the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons, a Nigerian doctor reminded delegates today as they prepared for an upcoming review conference. ?I am here as a medical doctor,? said Hakeem Ayinde of the […]
Delegation Appears in Absence of Report; Experts Say Failure to Report Covenant Violation, Pose Questions on Corporal Punishment, Sexual Abuse, Gender Equality ?Cape Verde was one of the rare African countries to have achieved all the Millennium Development Goals,? Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima, Permanent Representative of Cape Verde, emphasized today, as he updated the Human […]
Implementation of 2001 Programme of Action Called ?Painfully Slow? as Preparatory Committee Continues Thematic Debate Although national and regional efforts were being made to combat the illicit arms trade, more international assistance and cooperation was essential for the effective implementation of the relevant Programme of Action, delegations said today as they continued their thematic […]
