UN News. Audio and Subscription Audio Hub Subscribe. Filter by: Audio. Latest News. The President of Spain today hailed the General Assembly as the centre of multilateralism, highlighting its universal nature and the equal status enjoyed within it by all Member States of the United Nations. Twenty years after countries agreed to boost efforts to protect and promote human rights, an international framework is now in place and progress has been made, but implementation in many countries is still lacking, United Nations officials said today.
As the General Assembly's annual General Debate picks up again today, political leaders and senior Government officials gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York will continue discussions on shaping the world's next development agenda, which will aim to protect the planet and promote equity, justice and prosperity for all people. The situation in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines is now a humanitarian crisis, as tens of thousands of people remain forcibly displaced, the United Nations said today, calling for support to the victims of the recent wave of violence in the country.
Following the general elections in Cambodia in July, the Government must now ensure that the National Assembly is truly representative to promote a successful transition to democracy, a United Nations independent expert said today. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today encouraged small island developing nations to make the best use of both traditional channels of communication and new media to highlight the issues they face as well as to raise the profile of a conference next year aimed at addressing them.
Progress has been made in the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC in putting in place a legal regime to combat impunity for human rights violations, but the rights situation in the east of the country continues to deteriorate, according to a new United Nations report presented to the press in Kinshasa today.
In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly today, the President of Estonia highlighted the use of modern information and communication technologies ICT to drive development and the importance of international law to preserve Internet freedom while protecting citizens from cyber crime.
