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Palesa Beverly Ditsie of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission addresses the Fourth World Conference on Women.

Through the art of animation, this brilliant short film portrays the contagion of prejudice and racism as feisty personified brushstrokes react to one another's differences.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Sunday began a four-day official visit to Ukraine, at the invitation of the Government. OHCHR

A study last year estimated that 12 per cent of the almost 1 million Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh’s Cox's Bazar District are living with disabilities. UNHCR

To help vulnerable farmers get through the worst drought in forty years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has so far supported more than 138 300 households (comprising 691 500 people) in just the Somali region of Ethiopia with life-sustaining supplies and by the end of 2022 will have assisted a total of 1.5 million households in need (7.5 million people) across the entire country. FAO

King Felipe VI of Spain visited IMF Headquarters in Washington today. The IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, along with First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath and Deputy Managing Director Antoinette Sayeh welcomed him and hosted a lunch in his honor. IMF

One year after the appearance of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief said it “has proved to be significantly more transmissible than its predecessor, Delta, and continues to cause significant mortality due to the intensity of transmission.” WHO

A UN spokesperson said, “Volker Türk, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, today expressed shock that more than 130 people have now been sentenced to death by military courts behind closed doors in Myanmar.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 77th Session of the General Assembly.

The measure of changes in world food commodity prices remained largely steady in November, with declining international prices of cereals, meat and dairy products offsetting increasing quotations for vegetable oils and sugar, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. UNIFEED