"CEREMONIES"

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly.

A newly opened health center provides essential health services in Abu Gaw, North Darfur, for the first time since the village’s previous health facility was destroyed and the community fled during the war in 2004. WHO

On World Press Freedom Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made the following address at the annual award by the Freedom Cartoonist Foundation. OHCHR

The 100th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) has been marked by a ceremony at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) headquarters in Geneva. ILO

In the presence of the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, a memorial service took place in Goma for eight peacekeepers from Pakistan, Russia and Serbia who lost their lives in a helicopter crash. MONUSCO

According to the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), Somalia’s maritime capabilities received a major boost today with the inauguration of a new, state-of-the-art maritime facility for the Somali Police Force in Mogadishu, funded by the European Union and developed by the United Nations. UNSOM

Within the next five years, everyone on Earth should be protected by early warning systems against increasingly extreme weather and climate change, according to an ambitious new United Nations target announced today. UN chief António Guterres has tasked the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to lead the effort and present an action plan to achieve this goal at the next UN climate conference in Egypt this November. UNIFEED

Ministers and high-level delegates from across Asia and the Pacific met Thursday with a focus on improving nutrition, lives and livelihoods in the wake of the global pandemic, while taking aim at ongoing climate and severe weather-related threats, and tackling diseases and pests that are affecting crops and livestock in the world’s most populous region. Improved ecosystem responses in the Pacific Islands is another key topic. FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed Tuesday with the government of Maldives a Country Programming Framework (CPF) that it’s aimed at supporting the country’s efforts to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and build back better, increasing resilience to further shocks and addressing development needs. FAO

Livestock-rearing communities and local authorities in Melut county, Upper Nile state, South Sudan, have a reason to be joyous, as the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) recently handed over a new veterinary clinic here. UNMISS