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September 24, 2024


FACT SHEET: BIDEN-⁠HARRIS ADMINISTRATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS

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Since his first day in office, President Biden has been committed to restoring
American leadership at the United Nations. Our world today faces many challenges
that no one country can or should confront alone. But when the United States
shows up and leads at the UN, we can rally global action to tackle problems that
affect us all. That is why the Biden-Harris Administration has worked tirelessly
at the UN to advance American values, safeguard human rights for all, and
address conflict and instability. Alongside our allies and partners from around
the world, we have worked with UN agencies to tackle the climate crisis, shape
our digital future, and fight poverty and disease.

At a time of increasing geopolitical challenges and growing global needs, strong
and effective American leadership at the UN is more critical than ever. The
Biden-Harris Administration has worked to strengthen American leverage at the
United Nations, uphold the UN Charter, and keep human rights at the core of the
organization. Without robust American engagement, our competitor nations would
gain leverage to advance their interests and values at our expense.

The Biden-Harris Administration has also been committed to reforming and
adapting the UN to the needs of the 21st century. For example, President Biden
announced a new U.S. openness to expanding the membership of the UN Security
Council, including permanent seats for Africa and Latin America. The UN is not a
perfect organization, but given the scale of today’s challenges, the world needs
global institutions that are more inclusive and effective.

Over nearly four years, the Biden-Harris Administration’s leadership at the UN
has delivered results for the American people. At the UN, we have:

Responded to Threats to International Peace and Security

 * After Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we worked at the UN to
   build support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and hold Russia to account. We
   rallied 141 countries in the UN General Assembly to condemn Russia’s
   violations of international law. We used UN Security Council debates to shine
   a spotlight on Russia’s illegal war and atrocities. We pressed the UN General
   Assembly to kick Russia off the UN Human Rights Council. We isolated Russia
   by denying it senior UN appointments and preventing its election to UN
   bodies.
 * Responding to the security situation in Haiti, we partnered with Ecuador to
   obtain UN Security Council authorization of a new Kenyan-led Multinational
   Security Support mission.
 * Working with African partners, we secured a UN Security Council decision to
   create in December 2023 a new mechanism to largely fund future African
   Union-led Peace Support Operations from the UN-assessed budget.
 * Following the horrific October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, we
   defended at the UN Security Council Israel’s right to defend itself and
   demanded the release of hostages. Also in the Security Council, we called for
   increased humanitarian assistance to Gaza and established a new UN mechanism
   to improve aid coordination. In July 2024, we secured Security Council
   endorsement of President Biden’s plan for a ceasefire and hostage release
   deal.
 * As the Sudan conflict worsened, we mobilized action in the UN Security
   Council, including the adoption of a resolution in June 2024 demanding an end
   to the siege of El Fasher.
 * Responding to concerns that Russia intended to deploy nuclear weapons in
   space, we and Japan proposed a UN Security Council resolution calling on
   countries not to develop such weapons.
 * In 2022, we partnered with Ireland at the UN Security Council to reform,
   expand and strengthen humanitarian exemptions for UN sanctions.
 * Working with the United Kingdom, we secured adoption of the first-ever UN
   Security Council resolution condemning the February 2021 military coup in
   Burma.

Protected and Upheld Universal Human Rights

 * We rejoined the UN Human Rights Council in 2021, enabling the United States
   to once again lead multilateral efforts to hold accountable human rights
   violators worldwide.
 * We issued a standing invitation to all UN thematic human rights monitors to
   visit the United States and assess our human rights record at home. In
   contrast to authoritarian governments, this invitation showed that a
   confident democracy is willing to have its record scrutinized and receive
   advice on strengthening rights protections for its citizens.
 * We pressed for the release of a landmark report from the Office of the UN
   High Commissioner for Human Rights on human rights violations against Uighurs
   in China.
 * We worked in the UN Human Rights Council to establish a new Special
   Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia to examine Moscow’s crackdown on dissent
   at home and a Commission of Inquiry on violations and abuses in Russia’s war
   against Ukraine.
 * We restored American leadership at the UN in defending the human rights of
   LGBTQI+ individuals around the world. This included participating in
   high-level meetings of the Core Group of countries advocating for LGBTQI+
   rights, including a September 23 meeting where the First Lady represented the
   United States. We also secured the renewal of the mandate of the UN’s
   Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and urged the UN
   to release its first-ever organization-wide strategy on LGBTQI+ rights,
   co-sponsoring the first-ever Human Rights Council resolution on the rights of
   intersex persons, and convening the second-ever informal UN Security Council
   meeting on the rights of LGBTQI+ individuals.
 * We spotlighted egregious human rights violations by North Korea, including by
   organizing the first briefing of the UN Security Council on North Korea human
   rights since 2017.
 * We helped establish mechanisms through the UN Human Rights Council to
   investigate human rights violations and abuses in Ethiopia, Sudan, and
   Nicaragua.
 * We worked at the UN to advance the global fight against antisemitism,
   including to ensure 36 countries and four multilateral organizations joined
   the U.S.-led Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism. In 2023, we
   convened a UN meeting on antisemitism with Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and,
   in 2022, a roundtable at UNESCO.  
 * We advanced the UN’s work to promote racial equality, including by
   championing the inaugural session of the Permanent Forum on People of African
   Descent. We co-sponsored a UN General Assembly resolution designating July 25
   as International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent.
 * We engaged seriously with the human rights treaty body process, including
   through periodic reports about our domestic human rights record to the Human
   Rights Committee and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
   Discrimination.
 * Reaffirming support for the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous
   Peoples, we pressed for enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples
   throughout the UN system. In 2022, Ambassador (ret.) Keith Harper, the
   first-ever Senate confirmed U.S. ambassador from a federally-recognized
   tribe, was elected to the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues.  
 * We supported efforts in the UN General Assembly to advance discussion of a
   proposed convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against
   humanity.  
 * After assuming the presidency of the UN Convention against Corruption
   (UNCAC), we hosted the UNCAC conference in Atlanta, Georgia in 2023, with
   approximately 2,600 delegates, including an unprecedented 1,000 from civil
   society.

Advanced Gender Equity and Equality

 * We restored American leadership in pressing at the UN for the rights of women
   and girls, advancing their inclusion in societies, and supporting strong
   language in UN resolutions and at the Commission on the Status of Women on
   sexual and reproductive rights.
 * The January 2021 Presidential Memorandum on Protecting Women’s Health at Home
   and Abroad restored life-saving funding to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
 * We announced that the United States will contribute for the first time to the
   UNICEF–UNFPA Global Program to End Child Marriage.
 * Following the Iranian regime’s killing of Mahsa Amini and crackdown on
   protestors, we helped establish a new UN Fact-Finding Mission to investigate
   human rights abuses. We spearheaded efforts to remove Iran from the
   Commission on the Status of Women.
 * In 2024, we reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to the 1994 International
   Conference on Population and Development Program of Action.
 * We launched the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online
   Harassment and Abuse, which included actions at the UN to address online
   safety for women and girls.

Shaped Our Digital Future, Promoted Labor Rights, and Tackled Synthetic Drugs

 * We sponsored the first-ever UN General Assembly resolution outlining
   principles for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI). This
   landmark resolution helped define a global consensus on safe, secure and
   trustworthy AI systems for advancing sustainable development.
 * We hosted events at the UN on misuses of new technologies, such as countries
   using commercial spyware to surveil dissidents and journalists.
 * We worked at the International Labor Organization (ILO) to empower workers
   worldwide and joined the ILO’s Equal Pay International Coalition to share
   best practices to close the gender wage gap.
 * At the first Summit for Democracy in 2021, we announced the Multilateral
   Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights (M-POWER), an
   initiative working with governments, trade unions, labor support, civil
   society organizations, and philanthropy to uphold and promote workers’ trade
   union rights around the world.
 * In coordination with the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), we launched
   and hosted at the UN high-level meetings of the Global Coalition to Address
   Synthetic Drug Threats and secured adoption of a UN General Assembly
   resolution to enhance international action to fight such drugs.

Strengthened Global Health Cooperation, Advanced Sustainable Development, and
Bolstered Climate Action

 * We redoubled efforts to support implementation of the UN’s Sustainable
   Development Goals, launching a U.S. Strategy on Global Development to
   accelerate progress and mobilizing $150 billion of U.S. funding and billions
   more from the private sector, philanthropic, and other donor resources.
 * In 2021, we reversed the previous administration’s decision to withdraw from
   the World Health Organization (WHO), enabling the United States to shape the
   WHO’s work on global health and reform. With the WHO, we led the global
   response to the COVID-19 pandemic by launching the COVID-19 Global Action
   Plan and donating nearly 700 million vaccine doses to 117 countries.
 * We hosted the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s 7th
   Replenishment in 2022, resulting in more than 75 governments, foundations,
   and corporations delivering pledges totaling a record $15.67 billion.
 * We worked at the UN to advance universal health coverage, continue the fight
   against tuberculosis and mpox, and combat global antimicrobial resistance
   (AMR), including to push countries for commitments on AMR that are bold,
   aspirational, and implementable.
 * We focused attention at the UN on addressing global food insecurity,
   repeatedly using the U.S. presidency of the UN Security Council to focus on
   the nexus between food security and conflict. We hosted at the UN
   ministerial-level meetings to generate new commitments to expand agricultural
   capacity and respond to famine with over 100 partner countries.
 * U.S. Representative to the UN Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield and Secretary of
   the Interior Deb Haaland co-led the U.S. delegation to the 2023 UN Water
   Conference, where they announced more than $49 billion towards water security
   both at home and abroad.
 * In 2024, Secretary Haaland co-led the U.S. delegation to the Fourth
   International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4), where we
   announced new efforts to enhance our partnerships with SIDS.
 * After rejoining the Paris Agreement, we galvanized efforts at the UN to
   combat climate change, raising global climate ambition through countries’
   enhanced national contributions, accelerated action to reduce pollution and
   greenhouse gas emissions, forward-leaning decisions at annual UN Climate
   Change Conferences, and major initiatives for ocean-climate action catalyzed
   by the annual Our Ocean Conference.
 * Former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Senior Advisor
   for International Climate Policy John Podesta have helped lead an all-out
   effort, including critical agreements at the UN Climate Change Conference
   COPs 26 and 28 to partner with countries to accelerate climate efforts
   worldwide and reduce global emissions sufficiently to limit warming to 1.5°
   Celsius. 
 * We advanced efforts within the International Civil Aviation Organization, the
   International Maritime Organization, and other multilateral organizations to
   reduce greenhouse gas pollution from the aviation, shipping, and other
   sectors.

Strengthened American Presence at the United Nations

 * After a five-year absence, we rejoined the UN Education, Scientific, and
   Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This allowed us to partner with UNESCO to
   combat the scourge of antisemitism, support global Holocaust education,
   promote journalist safety, safeguard Ukrainian cultural heritage, bolster
   ethical uses of AI, and advance science education for girls in Africa.
 * We led robust campaigns resulting in the election of U.S. citizens to key UN
   positions, including Doreen Bogdan-Martin as Secretary-General of the
   International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Amy Pope as Director-General of
   the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and Sarah Cleveland as
   Judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
 * We supported the appointments of highly qualified Americans to lead UN
   agencies, such as Ambassador Cathy Russell as Executive Director of UNICEF,
   Ambassador Cindy McCain as Executive Director of the World Food Program, and
   Ian Saunders as Secretary-General of the World Customs Organization.
 * Co-chairing the UN Accessibility Steering Committee, we worked to make UN
   headquarters in New York more accessible for all delegates, including
   construction of a 24/7 entrance for wheelchair users and the installation of
   a lift so everyone can address the General Assembly from behind the official
   rostrum.

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