"CRIMES"

Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Sami Bahous welcomed "the news that 50 hostages, all women, and children, will be released in return for the release of 150 Palestinian women and children, and a much-needed humanitarian pause.” UNIFEED

The UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohammed, said, “Halfway through the 2030 Agenda, we are far from achieving the target of eliminating violence against women and girls. It transcends borders and cultures.” UNIFEED

Threats to international peace and security.

Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths called for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza for an “indefinite period” in order to “facilitate an unimpeded humanitarian response” and to “give the people of Gaza a breather upon the terrible things that have been put on them on these last few weeks.” He also called “without conditions” for the release of all hostages. UNIFEED

The UN Human Rights Office is closely monitoring developments in Myanmar where anti-military armed groups and their allies have made significant advances and several hundred soldiers have reportedly chosen to lay down their weapons. UNTV CH

The UN Human Rights Office is extremely alarmed by reports that Rapid Support Forces and their allied Arab militia killed hundreds of ethnic Masalit civilians in Ardamata town earlier this month, in yet another ethnically motivated mass attack on non-Arab Masalit civilians in West Darfur in just a few months. UNTV CH

⁃ Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council - Item 121 ● Continuation of the debate on the item 

Police First Sergeant Renita Rismayanti, of Indonesia, received the 2023 United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year Award. UNIFEED / FILE

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today urged all States to create the space for a path out of the horror unfolding in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – both Gaza and the West Bank – and in Israel. UNTV CH

United Nations peacekeeping operations: Police Commissioners.