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Governments must embrace rights-based focus on those most at risk of HIV/AIDS, General Assembly speakers stress, amid differences over ‘key’ populations.

The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years – with millions more at risk due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF. ILO

On the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS, UNAIDS released a new report outlining the latest data and trends in the HIV pandemic. Currently, 37.6 million people globally were living with HIV in 2020 and 1.5 million became newly infected with HIV last year. A record 27.4 million people were accessing antiretroviral therapy, but 690,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2020. UNAIDS

Electing Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid President of Seventy-Sixth Session, General Assembly selects Main Committee Bureaus, Economic and Social Council members.

Electing Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid President of Seventy-Sixth Session, General Assembly selects Main Committee Bureaus, Economic and Social Council members.

Stressing no country is exempt from corruption, speakers in General Assembly call for greater collaboration to tackle menace, as special session continues.

Stressing no country is exempt from corruption, speakers in General Assembly call for greater collaboration to tackle menace, as special session continues.

Speakers in General Assembly urge Israel, Hamas to use ceasefire as opportunity for reopening dialogue, addressing root causes of conflict.

Unitaid’s Executive Director Philippe Duneton warned about the critical need for investment in oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries, which have quadrupled in recent months. UNITAID

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