"DATA COLLECTION"

Briefing by Shantanu Mukherjee, Chief of the Integrated Policy Analysis Branch in DESA's Division for Sustainable Development Goals, Nancy L. Vandycke, Economic Advisor at the World Bank, and Jan Hoffman, Head of UNCTAD's Trade Logistics Branch, on the Interagency Report on Sustainable Transport.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action “offers an important opportunity to reflect on where we stand and where we need to go,” adding that “structural racism and systematic injustice still deny people their fundamental human rights.” UNIFEED

Job losses, lack of cash and soaring prices are creating a new class of hungry in Afghanistan, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned today. WFP

Press briefing by Rob Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), on the 25th anniversary of the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

Briefing by Florencia Soto Niño, Associate Spokeswoman for the Secretary-General.

Adopting resolution 2589 (2021), Security Council calls on governments to protect peacekeepers, requests creation of online database cataloguing attacks. Harness digital technology to protect peacekeepers, civilians, Security Council urges, adopting presidential statement.

The Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Thomas Markram, told the Security Council that “although almost eight years have now passed since the adoption of resolution 2118, there’s still work to be done before this resolution can be fully considered implemented.” UNIFEED

UNICEF estimates that over 100,000 children in Tigray could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the next 12 months – a tenfold increase compared to the average annual caseload. UNICEF

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said, “"We are in a very dangerous period of this pandemic,” and stressed that “no country on earth is out of the woods yet.” WHO

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”