The UN Secretary General’s Our Common Agenda report, published in September 2021, set out twelve key proposals that the UN would seek to action to aid recovery after Covid-19: https://www.un.org/en/content/common-agenda-report/

Find out about the UN’s global consultation to ask people about their hopes and fears for the future, about priorities for recovering from Covid-19, and how the public perceived the role of the UN: https://www.un.org/un75

The UN General Assembly and Security Council’s 2016 resolutions on peacebuilding: https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/sites/www.un.org.peacebuilding/files/documents/guidance-on-sustaining-peace.170117.final_.pdf

The World Health Organisation: www.who.int

Read a report from The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response on “Covid-19: Make it the Last Pandemic” which highlights the failures, gaps and delays in preparedness and response to the crisis: https://theindependentpanel.org/

A chronology of key events relating to Rwanda’s history, produced by BBC News: Rwanda profile - Timeline - BBC News

A timeline, entitled ‘How Rwanda’s genocide unfolded’, produced by Al Jazeera: Timeline: How Rwanda’s genocide unfolded | Humanitarian Crises News | Al Jazeera

Read about the UNSC’s decision to acknowledge that a failure of 'political will' led to the UN's failures to act during the Rwandan genocide in 1994: https://news.un.org/en/story/2014/04/466342-rwandan-genocide-security-council-told-failure-political-will-led-cascade-human

An article by Ambassador Colin Keating entitled ‘Rwanda: the Political Failure of the UN Security Council’: Rwanda: the Political Failure of the UN Security Council in: Journal of International Peacekeeping Volume 22 Issue 1-4 (2018) (brill.com)

This article provides an accessible guide to the UN Security Council and its reforms: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/united-nations-security-council-reform

An article entitled ‘Will Ukraine's Tragedy Spur UN Security Council Reform?’ by Kemal Derviş and José Antonio Ocampo, published by Project Syndicate: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ukraine-war-proposal-for-un-security-council-reform-by-kemal-dervis-and-jose-antonio-ocampo-2022-03

Read the 2022 UNGA debate on Security Council Reform: https://press.un.org/en/2022/ga12473.doc.htm

A UN General Assembly website detailing developments concerning intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform: Security Council Reform | General Assembly of the United Nations

The 2023 ‘Revised Co-Chairs’ Elements Paper on Convergences and Divergences on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters’: 2023-06-05-pga-cochairs-revised-elements-paper.pdf (un.org)