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The spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported “significant displacement of Palestinians, with over 38,000 internally displaced people seeking protection in 48 schools" across the Gaza Strip, and added that “over 2,500 people have been made homeless.” UNIFEED

A two-day workshop on the role of media in the permanent constitution-making process organized by several UN agencies has encouraged South Sudanese journalists to continue in its vital role in reporting, educating and disseminating information for civic engagement and public participation. UNMISS

As the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestinians takes an increasingly heavy toll on civilians, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) expressed its deep concern for the effect the conflict is having on people’s access to water, sanitation, and health care, especially in Gaza. UNTV CH

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the winners of the 2nd edition of the Health for All Film Festival at a press conference Thursday. WHO

United States ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said her country would continue “standing up and speaking out until China’s government stops its crimes against humanity and the genocide of Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang.” UNIFEED

The World Bank said today that remittance flows – the money that international migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries – remained resilient in 2020, declining just 1.6 percent year-over-year despite dire predictions earlier in the pandemic. WORLD BANK

Human Rights spokesperson Rupert Colville told journalists in Geneva that “more than 100 days after the coup in Myanmar, the military authorities are showing no sign of letting up in their brutal crackdown on opponents in a bid to consolidate their hold on power.” UNTV CH

India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla told the Security Council that the COVID-19 pandemic “has sharpened our awareness on the depth of global interdependence and to the fact that the world is only as resilient as its least resilient country.” UNIFEED

A new wave of COVID-19 infections is spreading like “wildfire” across India, leaving many youngsters destitute, amid reports of four new cases every second and more than two deaths every minute, the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF said. UNTV CH

Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year, according to the 2021 State of World’s Midwifery report issued by UNFPA, WHO, International Confederation of Midwives and partners, which evaluates the midwifery workforce and related health resources in 194 countries. UNIFEED