"COLOMBIA"

Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, and the President of the Security Council for July, briefs journalists on the Council’s Programme of Work for the month.

Forced displacement now affects more than one percent of humanity – one in every 97 people – and with fewer and fewer of those who flee being able to return home, according to UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report. UNHCR

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

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working across the globe to help fight the spread of the virus and assist refugee and internally displaced populations and their host communities. UNHCR

The COVID-19 pandemic may turn into a hunger pandemic for millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). UNTV CH

Just inside Colombia along the border with Venezuela, UNHCR and partners are offering medical treatment and counseling to hundreds of people affected by the COVID-19 crisis, including Venezuelans who have crossed the border and locals in need of help. UNHCR

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Real negotiation among Venezuela’s main political actors ‘only way forward’ to resolving protracted crisis, Under-Secretary-General tells Security Council.

Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary Anne DiCarlo, told the Security Council that “there is heightened concern” regarding the standoff "and the absence of any serious negotiations between the main political parties in Venezuela, especially amid potentially far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.” UNIFEED

“Measures implemented by governments to curb the COVID-19 pandemic have led to drug trafficking routes by air being disrupted,” the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today, “along with a drastic reduction or increased interdiction in trafficking routes over land.” UNIFEED