"UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND - UNFPA"

General Assembly elects 18 member States to Human Rights Council, authorizes dates of conference for establishing nuclear‑weapon‑free zone in Middle East.

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

Noon Briefing by Eri Kaneko, Associate Spokeswoman for the Secretary-General.

Briefing Security Council, Secretary-General implores members to reach consensus on extending cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries into Syria.

“The UN Country Team today again called for the immediate release of thousands of women, children and men currently in detention” in Myanmar, “almost five months after the military seized control of the government on February 1st,” the UN spokesperson said on Monday. UNIFEED

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through a data-driven process called Anticipatory Action, systematically links early warnings to actions designed to protect families and their assets ahead of a natural disaster. FAO

The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) concluded a five-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo this week where she met with Nobel Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, and visited his Panzi Hospital to see the wards for survivors of sexual violence. UNFPA

WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer, Elizabeth Iro, and the Chief Executive of the International Confederation of Midwives Dr. Sally Pairman brief the press on the State of the World’s Midwifery 2021, jointly released by WHO, the UN Population Fund and International Confederation of Midwives.

Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year, according to the 2021 State of World’s Midwifery report issued by UNFPA, WHO, International Confederation of Midwives and partners, which evaluates the midwifery workforce and related health resources in 194 countries. UNIFEED

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