The Work of the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in 2014 and 2015

Abstract

At the sixty-ninth and seventieth sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, held in 2014 and 2015, respectively, the Sixth (Legal) Committee continued its consideration of a broad range of legal issues of international concern. As described previously, its work can be broadly organised into three main types of activities: the substantive consideration of certain legal issues, the review of the annual work of expert legal bodies and the discharge of certain oversight functions. A further category, namely the review of requests for observer status in the General Assembly, has also become of particular interest. This third in a series of summaries covers the activities undertaken during the period under review.