I would like to thank Ireland for placing climate and security on today’s agenda. And I greatly appreciate the briefings by the Secretary-General and Ms. Ilwad Elman.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a very clear warning. We can expect further widespread and unprecedented ch…
I am speaking on behalf of the Nordic countries — Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and my own country, Norway. I would like to thank South Africa for initiating today’s debate and for bringing women peacebuilders to this Chamber.
To understand conflicts, we need to understand how they affect both …
First of all, I would like to thank the Secretary-General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders for their powerful statements.
Every day, all over the world, human rights defenders stand up for their own rights a…
The very first point of the Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations states that the aim of the United Nations is to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Since the beginning, the prevention of conflict has been at the very core of what the United Nations should do, and it still …
