Tomorrow afternoon (16 October), Security Council members are expected to participate in the sixth straw poll to select a candidate to recommend to the General Assembly as the next UN ...

Tomorrow afternoon (19 October), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution that addresses the impact of digital technologies on the perpetration of violations and abuses against ...

Tomorrow morning (13 October), Security Council members will hold closed consultations on the situation in the Horn of Africa. The US requested the meeting in light of the escalation in northern ...

Tomorrow afternoon (14 October), Russia will convene an Arria-formula meeting titled “Piercing the Blind Spots of Violations of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in the ...

Greece is the president of the Security Council in October. Council members adopted the provisional programme of work for the month earlier today (1 October). Greece has chosen to organise two ...

On 2 September, Security Council members held an informal interactive dialogue (IID) on artificial intelligence (AI), titled “From Early Warning to Durable Peace: Leveraging AI in Conflict Resolution” ...

In September, Yemen experienced a significant increase in hostilities, unravelling a UN-mediated truce agreed in 2022 between the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group—which controls most of northwestern ...

This year’s annual open debate comes at a time of heightened concern for the WPS agenda and more broadly for women’s rights, gender equality, and international law. Analysts, senior UN officials, and ...

In October, the Council will hold its 60-day briefing on the situation in Libya. Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Hanna Serwaa Tetteh will brief the Council ...

Tomorrow morning (29 September), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution extending the mandate of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) for another six months, until 31 March 2027.

In October, Security Council members are expected to receive their semi-annual briefing in closed consultations on the Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of resolution 1559. Adopted in ...

In October, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Huang Xia, is expected to provide the biannual briefing to the Council on the implementation of the 2013 Peace, Security, ...