"UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT - UNCTAD"

The war in Gaza has resulted in an unprecedented level of destruction to its economy which will take tens of billions of dollars and decades to reverse, UN trade and development body UNCTAD said in a new report on Wednesday. UNIFEED / FILE

UNCTAD, the UN’s trade and development body, has sounded the alarm over the escalating attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and their impact on global trade routes already under strain. UNIFEED

Briefing by Jan Hoffmann, Chief of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade Facilitation Section, on disruptions to trade in the Red Sea.

The head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said at the COP28 in Dubai, “What we need to do is to re-imagine globalization.” UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged world leaders to include women on peacekeeping forces, adding “they're better able to build trust with communities they are protecting." UNIFEED

Noon Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Press Briefing on the launch of the World of Debt Report from the UN Global Crisis Response Group. (Virtually, from Geneva) Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and (in person, NY UNHQ) Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that almost half of humanity live in countries that spend more on debt interest payments than on education or health, it is “more than a systemic risk. It is a systemic failure.” UNIFEED