"ARMED CONFLICTS"

Addressing the general debate of the 77th Session of the UN's General Assembly on Friday, Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, said, “not a single Rohingya was repatriated to their ancestral homes in Myanmar.” UNIFEED

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s Director-General, said that two-thirds of the 771 million adults worldwide who lack basic literacy skills are women. UNIFEED

Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait said that the number of children and youth in armed conflict, has increased from 75 million to 222 million “over the past four or five years only.” UNIFEED

Amid widespread food insecurity due to conflict, humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths told the Security Council that “famine will happen in Somalia,” and added that “it will not be the only place either.” UNIFEED

Preventing conflict most effective way to prevent famine, senior officials stress, warning Security Council millions of people ‘are marching towards starvation’.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Political process possible for Syria, but cannot advance until violence abates, senior official tells Security Council.

Reports of Russian Federation forces putting Ukrainian civilians in ‘filtration’ camps must be investigated, senior officials tell Security Council.

The ongoing war in Ukraine has marred the start of a new school year for Ukraine’s four million schoolchildren, stated UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell as she concluded a three-day visit across the country. UNICEF

Launching the Education Cannot Wait’s (ECW) new Annual Results Report, Director Yasmine Sherif told journalists in New York that there are 78.2 million children in conflict affected areas “that don’t even go to school,” while another 190 million receive some education “but can’t read and write, they can’t do math.” UNIFEED