"UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION - UNESCO"

The second Permanent Forum on People of African Descent started Tuesday in New York. The theme of the session is "Realizing the dream: A United Nations Declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent". UNIFEED

Briefing Council members by videoconference, the Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, noted that the humanitarian operating environment in Ukraine remains complex and dangerous. UNIFEED / FILE

The Chief of Section of the Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, described a “perfect storm of problems against press freedom”. UNIFEED

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated annually on 3 May, UNESCO’s Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, said, when freedom of the press regresses “it is all the rights that do regress with it,” and “when there's a regression, there's a regression of the debates within society and they are undermined.” UNIFEED

The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Audrey Azoulay carried out a two-day mission to Ukraine, to reaffirm the Organization's support to the population and to advance the reconstruction of the country’s cultural sector. President Zelensky welcomed the “concrete results” of the emergency measures taken by UNESCO since the beginning of the war. UNESCO

“We need to mobilize 3.1 billion US dollars in the coming five years to be successful to reach 100 percent coverage of early warning services. Now only half of our 193 country members have such services in place and we have also major gaps in the basic observing systems,” said Professor Petteri Taalas, WMO’s Secretary-General. UNIFEED

Costa Rica will be the first in Central America to have a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy “done in partnership with our team on the ground,” a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED