"EDUCATION"

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

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Representative in India, Yasmin Ali Haque, called for “investment in the services that are critical for children to remain healthy, for them to thrive, and also to recover from the trauma that they are facing” during the COVID-19 pandemic. UNIFEED / UNICEF FILE

UNHCR’s Emergency Transit Centres give vulnerable refugees evacuated from Libya a place of safety, an opportunity to transition to a new life in Europe - like one Eritrean family headed for resettlement in the Netherlands. UNHCR

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Following a mandatory 10-day quarantine, the newly appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Beatrice Wani-Noah and toured various UN facilities in capital Juba on Monday. UNMISS

Marking World Press Freedom Day, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “the global challenges we face during the COVID-19 pandemic underline the critical role of reliable, verified, and universally accessible information in saving lives and building strong, resilient societies.” UNIFEED

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva hosted a virtual conversation with Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and discussed the importance of policies that promote gender equality during the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and how working mothers with young children were the biggest casualties from the COVID crisis. IMF

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed solidarity with the people of India as they face a “horrific COVID-19 outbreak,” and said the UN “stands ready" to step up support, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said today. UNIFEED