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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.

Progress towards gender equality under threat, world leaders warn as General Assembly marks twenty-fifth anniversary of landmark women’s rights conference.

Achieving universal health coverage by 2030 hinges on ‘bold national leadership’, Secretary-General tells General Assembly, as world leaders commit to declaration.

National ownership, economic investment, key to post-conflict peacebuilding efforts, president tells Security Council at 8413th meeting.

Five years after resolution 2118, which called on member states to implement a programme to eliminate the use chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict was adopted, High Representative on Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said, “so long as the use of chemical weapons is ongoing, or the threat of their use lingers, we must retain our focus on this issue and not allow ourselves to become inured to it.” UNIFEED

Time to Act on Global Mental Health - Building Momentum on Mental Health in the SDG Era: An event to advance on new action on global mental health.

Side Event: Food Security and Resilience - Towards sustainable peace - Implementing UNSC resolution 2417 in order to break the vicious cycle between conflict and hunger, organized by Mission of Netherlands to the UN.

United Nations (UN) launched a major international funding appeal to help the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid warnings of a growing humanitarian crisis in the country. UNTV CH

Security Council should play greater role in breaking link between hunger, conflict, stresses Under-Secretary-General, World Food Programme Head at 8213th meeting.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said the Security Council could “help prevent famine ever occurring again” adding that hunger was the “clear corollary to the vicious cycle of displacement and conflict.” UNIFEED