ECOSOC, UNGA Presidents Look to Summit of the Future to Accelerate SDGs
Stories & Blogs IISD (News )The UNGA President highlighted the Summit of the Future as an opportunity to scale up commitments and reinvigorate multilateralism to address today’s challenges.
“Peace is the Missing Piece”: UN Secretary-General on Priorities for 2024
Stories & Blogs IISD (News )Guterres identified the Summit of the Future as an opportunity to shape more effective and inclusive multilateralism in our increasingly multipolar world.
ECOSOC Discusses Durable Solutions, Partnerships to Reinforce 2030 Agenda
Stories & Blogs IISD (News )The ECOSOC President welcomed the Partnership Forum’s multi-stakeholder and participatory discussions that, she said, can “shine the spotlight on innovative solutions for addressing many of today’s most pressing challenges”.
Joint Communiqué: UN-AU Joint Task Force on Peace and Security Holds Twenty-Second Consultative Meeting.
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Communiqué )The meeting expressed concerns on the resurgence of Coup d’Etats and military takeovers on the Continent.
SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga briefs the UN Security Council at the 9435th meeting
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (News )The briefing focused on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security.
UNOAU and Amani Africa Hold Policy Dialogue ‘Towards a Renewed AU-UN Partnership: Financing of African Union-led Peace Support Operations’
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Story )The policy dialogue focused on the options of financing AU-led PSOs laid out in the SG’s report as well as the next steps with regards to the use of UN-assessed contributions.
UNOAU Provides Technical Support to the AU in the Delivery of a Course On ‘Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning’
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Story )The aim of the course was to expose participants to various monitoring and evaluation tools to make them more accountable in the implementation of AU peace support operations’ (PSO) mandates.
SRSG To the AU and Head of UNOAU Attends High-Level Policy Dialogue on Africa’s Post-Cold War Security Architecture
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Story )The dialogue took account of shifting trends and threats following the 1992 publication of UNSG Boutros-Ghali’s Agenda for Peace, and is in anticipation of UNSG Guterres’s pending publication of a New Agenda for Peace. Academics
AUPSC Communiqué |1156th Meeting on the Situation in Sudan on 27 May 2023
Stories & Blogs UNOAU (Communiqué )With deep concern, the Council strongly condemned the senseless and unjustified conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces