"CHILD HEALTH"

Almost a quarter of all women are effectively forced to have sex, and nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended globally, said UN Population Fund (UNFPA). UNTV CH

Second informal thematic consultation convened by Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the General Assembly, to provide the Secretary-General with an opportunity to inform Member States on the thinking regarding the follow-up to the "Our Common Agenda" report, and to allow Member States the opportunity to further consider the various proposals, options and potential means of implementation.

Three consecutive failed rainy seasons have brought on severe drought in Ethiopia’s lowland regions of Afar, Oromia, The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ (SNNPR) and Somali regions drying up water wells, killing livestock and crops and pushing hundreds of thousands of children and their families to the brink. UNICEF

From peacekeeping, to the protection of refugees and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

From peacekeeping, to the protection of refugees and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED / FILE

The World Health Organization and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced plans to establish a platform that will dramatically increase access to childhood cancer medicines around the world. WHO

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the Organization’s recommendation for the “broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine,” adding that the long-awaited vaccine “is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control.” WHO

A high-level delegation made up by Somali government ministers as well as United Nations officials visited displaced Somalis sheltering in besieged town of Xudur, some 350 kilometers north of capital Mogadishu, to assess the humanitarian needs of the population. UNSOM

A side event of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development provides an important opportunity to highlight both challenges and solutions related to protecting children from violence and supporting their mental well-being.

Health, inequality dangerously linked, speakers warn, stressing exclusion, disparity impeding ability to contain COVID-19, on day three of high-level political forum.