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 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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

Tomorrow morning (17 September), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts (PoE) supporting the 1737 Iran Sanctions Committee for ...

This afternoon (10 September), the Security Council will hold an emergency briefing on Yemen. Bahrain and the UK (the penholder on Yemen) requested the meeting in response to attacks by the Houthi ...

In September, the Security Council will hold a briefing and consultations on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Special Representative and Head of the UN Organization ...

The Security Council has traditionally approached maritime security through specific geographic situations and discrete threats, rather than as a broader and interconnected peace and security ...

France is the president of the Security Council in September. Council members were unable to reach agreement on the provisional programme of work for the month, apparently due to objections from China ...

On 5 August, the Security Council convened for a briefing on the Secretary-General’s 23rd biannual strategic-level report (S/2026/638) on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ...