"AFGHANISTAN"

The ten elected members and five incoming members of the Security Council called on the Taliban to immediately reverse the decision to exclude girls from secondary education in Afghanistan. UNIFEED

Asked about protests in the Islamic Republic of Iran, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “We call on security forces to refrain from using unnecessary and disproportionate force and appeal to all to exercise restraint to avoid further escalation.” UNIFEED

The UN General Assembly, starting on Tuesday (20 Sep) in New York, brings the world together to exchange ideas, negotiate and make progress on global challenges. The annual event stands for the UN’s guiding principle of “words, not weapons.” UN VIDEO

The Transforming Education Summit kicked off at the UN headquarters in New York with the Mobilization Day, where the Secretary-General received the first ever Youth Declaration on Transforming Education, the result of the participation of almost half a million children and young people from over 170 countries. UNIFEED

Amid widespread food insecurity due to conflict, humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths told the Security Council that “famine will happen in Somalia,” and added that “it will not be the only place either.” UNIFEED

Preventing conflict most effective way to prevent famine, senior officials stress, warning Security Council millions of people ‘are marching towards starvation’.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 was the lowest since March 2020. We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic.” WHO

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expresses "its mounting concern about de facto authorities’ actions against Afghan female employees of the United Nations. The Mission urges the de facto authorities to abide by their obligations to respect the privileges and immunities of the UN and all its staff, including their freedom of movement throughout the country," a UN Spokesperson said. UNIFEED

Afghanistan: no other country in the world where women and girls have “so rapidly” been deprived of their fundamental rights “purely because of gender,” UN-appointed expert told Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

Briefing by Afghan parliamentarian Naheed Farid, human rights activist and feminist Najiba Sanjar, and Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN Mona Juul, on the situation of women in Afghanistan.