"TAJIKISTAN"

Deep inside Tajikistan’s rural towns and villages, it's common to see women out working in the fields. With 20 percent of the workforce, predominantly men, working abroad, the country relies on women to carry out most of its agricultural labour. IFAD

Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and pregnant women, more people were getting sick with malaria, according to a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO

Emomali Rahmon, Presidentof the Republic of Tajikistan, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

A High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development started today in New York. The theme of the forum is “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels”. UNIFEED

Continued record illicit drug supply and increasingly agile trafficking networks are compounding intersecting global crises and challenging health services and law enforcement responses, according to the World Drug Report 2023 launched by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today. UNIFEED / UNODC

A large-scale locusts outbreak across eight provinces in North and Northeast Afghanistan poses enormous threat to the country’s food security, warns the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAO

New agenda sets sail with bold action as UN Water Conference closes. UNIFEED

Peruvian Minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation called world leaders to “get out comfort zone, roll up our sleeves, put on our boots and lead the political, social, cultural and economic transformation that we need to face enormous challenges that our peoples demand in particular with the drinking water and sanitation agenda.” UNIFEED

“In Kenya, I walked beside women and girls as they risked their lives each day to fetch water. And closer to here, just last week, I ran through California San Joaquin Valley, listening to farmers explained the threat to their crops, livelihoods and communities of what is now a 23-year drought,” ultramarathon runner said at the 2023 Water Conference’s Interactive Dialogue. UNIFEED

“We need to mobilize 3.1 billion US dollars in the coming five years to be successful to reach 100 percent coverage of early warning services. Now only half of our 193 country members have such services in place and we have also major gaps in the basic observing systems,” said Professor Petteri Taalas, WMO’s Secretary-General. UNIFEED