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The International Organization for Migration appealed for governments in Central America and Mexico to collaborate to address the immediate humanitarian needs of people on the move as unprecedented numbers of vulnerable migrants transit through the region while also working on long-term solutions to tackle the drivers of migration. IOM

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, said, “It is time to support strengthened engagement with the relevant components of the de facto authorities through appropriate means to increase their knowledge and further compliance of law enforcement actions with international norms.” UNIFEED

Joint Press Stakeout on the situation of women in Afghanistan by the Security Council signatories of the Statement of Shared Commitments for the principles of WPS, Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom.

The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Alicia Bárcena, told journalists that her country is facing “a real challenge” as “around three thousand people a day” are crossing the Darien Gap and heading north towards Mexico and the United States. UNIFEED

Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

The ten elected members of the Security Council called for all restraint in the use of the veto, “especially on actions aimed at preventing mass atrocities.” UNIFEED

Addressing the participants of a high-level event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UN LGBTI Core Group, Hanke Bruins Slot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs said, “in far too many places around the world we are seeing a targeted hate campaign against LGBTIQ people simply for being who they are and loving who they love.” UNIFEED

At the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), two-thirds of child-related indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report. UNICEF

A joint statement from Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States called for the parties to the Sudan conflict to “take full responsibility for preventing any acts of sexual and gender-based violence committed by their members and should issue command orders that prohibit sexual violence.” UNIFEED

Comments to the media by Ambassador Ferit Hoxha, Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations, and President of the Security Council for the month of September, on behalf of the signatories of the Statement of Shared Commitments for the principles of Women, Peace, and Secuirty: Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States; on the situation of women in Sudan.