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WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus told the Security Council that the health system in Gaza “is on its knees,” yet, “somehow, it's continuing to deliver some life-saving care.” UNIFEED

The Chairperson of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, Epsy Campbell Barr, said that a new report “highlights that people of African descent around the world continue to be victims of systemic racial discrimination and receive racialized attacks.” UNIFEED

Press conference by Epsy Campbell Barr, Chairperson of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, on human rights for people of African descent.

Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, said that the probability of a peace agreement lasting at least two years increases by 20 percent if women are involved. UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, said, “It is time to support strengthened engagement with the relevant components of the de facto authorities through appropriate means to increase their knowledge and further compliance of law enforcement actions with international norms.” UNIFEED

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (S/2023/678).

In his address to the General Assembly high-level debate, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas called for the holding of an international peace conference for achieving peace in the Middle East. UNIFEED

A new UN report focused on reparatory justice for people of African descent urged States to show strong leadership and political will in tackling the lasting consequences of enslavement, the trade in enslaved Africans, and colonialism. OHCHR

The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, said, “denial of education to Afghan girls and employment to Afghan women is gender discrimination, which should count as a crime against humanity” to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). UNIFEED

On the occasion of Nelson Mandela International Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for action “to give life to a workable dream.” UNIFEED