"DEMOCRATIZATION"

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on track to have record levels of verified grave violations against children for a third consecutive year in 2023. UNICEF

The Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), Bintou Keita, called on the Security Council “to express itself clearly on the recommendations set out in the 2 August report of the Secretary-General on the future of the MONUSCO.” MONUSCO

With the first-ever elections in South Sudan slated for next December, the United Nations Mission in the country supported a Political Parties Forum focused on the need to pick up the pace in the long-delayed democratic transition. UNMISS

Second Right of Reply by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, at the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

First Right of Reply by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

First Right of Reply by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, at the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) ambassador Kim Song told the General Assembly that some UN member states are “instigating confrontation between camps and bloc-forming in pursuance of hegemony and self-profits”, adding that “because of their prejudiced behavior, conflict and bloodshed among nations, forces, ethnics and religious sects are continuing unabated in the international arena.” UNIFEED

Song Kim, Chair of the Delegation of Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the UN, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

Rafael Grossi is reappointed for a second four-year term as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). IAEA

A UN spokesperson said that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is "seriously concerned" about the persistent cases of gender-based violence, particularly in conflict-affected provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). UNIFEED