"LATIN AMERICA"

A senior official at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) sounded alarms about violence against journalists in elections. UNIFEED

A planting ceremony of trees coming to Rome from around the world marked the launch of an ambitious initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to raise awareness on biodiversity and the need to make cities greener. FAO

The UN General Assembly elected 15 new countries to serve on the Human Rights Council. UNIFEED

With people on the move globally at “unprecedented” levels, the UN’s new migration agency chief insisted that rather than being a problem, host countries should recognize that migrants were what their economies needed to thrive. UNTV CH

Speaking at the General Assembly’s High-Level Debate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, “the future is being shaped by a struggle, a struggle between the global majority in favor of a fairer distribution of global benefits and civilized diversity, and between the few who wield neocolonial methods of subjugation in order to maintain their domination which is slipping through their hands.” UNIFEED

In his remarks to the General Assembly’s General Debate, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, said, “in a very short time,” El Salvador went from being “the most dangerous place in the planet to being the safest country in Latin America.” UNIFEED

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

UNICEF’s Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Gary Conille, warned today about “a stark and alarming reality”, with children “migrating within Latin America and the Caribbean at an unprecedented rate, constituting a larger share of the migrant population than any other region worldwide.” UNIFEED

Hybrid press briefing by Mr. Gary Conille, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNICEF.

El Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos alertó hoy del riesgo que enfrentan y la vulnerabilidad en la que se encuentran un número sin precedentes de migrantes y refugiados que cruzan el Tapón del Darién - la densa selva tropical que separa Colombia y Panamá- en su viaje hacia Norteamérica. OHCHR