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UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth Jayathma Wickramanayake met with young South Sudanese on her trip to the country. They told her about their hopes that lasting peace can be achieved in the world’s youngest nation. UNMISS

The World Health Organization (WHO) has upped the global risk assessment that the novel coronavirus poses from moderate to high risk but have not yet declared the outbreak an international public health emergency. UNTV CH

The UN mission in Iraq (UNAMI) and the UN Human Rights office (OHCHR) published a joint report on trials conducted under Iraq’s anti-terrorism laws. UNTV CH

Close to five million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger will need humanitarian assistance over the course of 2020, UNICEF said today, up from 4.3 million. UNICEF

The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) released a report on the July airstrikes on the Tajoura detention centre in Libya, renewing its call on all parties to the conflict in that country to conduct “independent, impartial and thorough investigations to ensure accountability for the violations of international law.” UNIFEED

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and the six million Jews and others murdered on Nazi orders during the Holocaust, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “our solidarity in the face of hatred is needed today more than ever, as we see a deeply worrying resurgence in antisemitic attacks around the world.” UNIFEED

Briefing reporters on the Coronavirus outbreak, a UN spokesperson said the World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that “we have a chance to get ahead of the virus if we all work together.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the world is “doomed” in the face of climate change unless major industrial nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. WEF

Marking the International Day of Education, the President of the General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, said, “it is unacceptable that twenty years into the 21st Century, about 258 million children and youth do not attend school, 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math and millions of refugees and internally displaced persons, and people with disabilities are out of school.” UNIFEED

A spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR) welcomed an order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Myanmar “must take ‘all measures within its power’ to protect the members of the Rohingya group from all future acts that may amount to genocide.” UNTV CH