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In response to the growing number of people crossing the dangerous Darien Gap, IOM and partners are stepping up the response in Panama, providing temporary shelters at government-run reception centres, as well as mattresses, blankets, solar lamps and hygiene kits, among other material assistance for both people on the move and local communities. IOM

Under the Digital Village Initiative, a collaboration between FAO and Bogor Agriculture University (IPB), Indonesian fish farmers are using innovative fish feeding technologies to save costs and increase production. FAO

Secretary-General António Guterres said that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. We need the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as much as ever.” UNIFEED

Humanity’s just one misunderstanding away from ‘nuclear annihilation’, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns Member States gathered at the opening of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

With 161 votes in favour, 8 abstentions, General Assembly adopts landmark resolution recognizing clean, healthy, sustainable environment as human right.

An “unprecedented agreement” on the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea amid the ongoing war is “a beacon of hope” in a world that desperately needs it, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the signing ceremony in Istanbul, Türkiye. TRT TURKISH BROADCASTING

Economic and Social Council grants 209 non-governmental organizations consultative status, adopts seven resolutions, six decisions, as management segment resumes.

In his video remarks, UN Secretary-General Guterres reiterated, “this has to be the decade of decisive climate action. That means trust, multilateralism and collaboration. We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” UNIFEED

Following debate over text-based process, General Assembly adopts oral decision to continue intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reforms.

General Assembly fails to decide between North Macedonia, Russian Federation sitting on Economic and Social Council.