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Briefing by Amy Quantrill, Deputy Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

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

At a virtual event remembering the victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said preventing history from repeating itself requires countering the “hate-driven movements that have become a transnational threat.” UNIFEED

Faustin-Archange Touadéra officially begun his second term as President of Central African Republic after his election victory was confirmed by the country's Constitutional Court. MINUSCA

The international community should work together “towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response” to build a more robust global health architecture that will protect future generations, world leaders said in a commentary published today in several newspapers around the world. WHO

Pandemic reveals extent of gender inequality in world’s political, social, economic systems, says Secretary-General, as women’s commission opens session.

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

Despite increases in the number of women at the highest levels of political power, widespread gender inequalities persist, according to the 2021 edition of the IPU-UN Women Map of Women in Politics. UNIFEED

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that the first COVID-19 vaccinations started in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, an "in addition to those two countries, COVAX has now delivered vaccines in Angola, Cambodia, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Gambia, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Nigeria, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan and Uganda." WHO

New data showing that an unprecedented 25,5 per cent of parliamentarians in the world are women was announced today by the Geneva-based interparliamentary Union (IPU), ahead of the 8th March commemoration of International Women’s Day. UNTV CH