| Cities: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Compactnav: | yes |
| Participants: | United Nations Member States |
| Secretary: | Kurt Waldheim |
| Precedes: | 9th |
| Venues: | General Assembly Hall at the United Nations headquarters |
| Follows: | 7th |
The Eighth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was invoked by the UNGA at the request of Zimbabwe (A/ES-8/1). The Eighth Emergency Special Session was convened by Zimbabwe in order to discuss the "Question of Namibia". Its meetings were conducted between 3 September and 14 September 1981.[1] [2] [3]
At the conclusion of the final meeting of the session, the Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/ES-8/2:
This was the first occasion on which the Assembly authorized economic, diplomatic and cultural sanctions against a state; it had already authorized military sanctions by its resolution 1001 of 7 November 1956,[1] during its first emergency special session.