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UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said that the crises and conflicts we are seeing around the world should be a wake-up call for the international community. UNTV CH

Ahead of COP 28, taking place in Dubai, during the month of November the Secretary-General António Guterres travelled to Nepal and to the Antarctic to highlight the devastating effects of climate change on glaciers and ice shelves. UNIFEED / FILE

Sport is one of the unifying factors in South Sudan. To build community confidence and mark 16 Days of Activism, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Yambio, held a week-long basketball tournament with local populations. UNMISS

According to a new report, taking key measures to reduce the power consumption of cooling equipment would cut at least 60 percent off predicted 2050 sectoral emissions, provide universal access to life-saving cooling, take the pressure off energy grids, and save trillions of dollars by 2050. UNIFEED

The head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said at the COP28 in Dubai, “What we need to do is to re-imagine globalization.” UNIFEED

Speakers: • Ambassador Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (Mexico) • Ms. Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Policy and Research Coordinator, International Campaign to Abolish nuclear weapons. • Veronique Christory, Senior Arms Advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation to the United Nations.

Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and pregnant women, more people were getting sick with malaria, according to a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO

In the run-up to COP28, the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the global health community, is raising its voice to ensure that the impact of climate change on health takes centre stage in the negotiations. WHO

Humanitarian issues will be central to negotiations at the upcoming 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). OCHA

The Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said, “Looking ahead, it would be impossible to envision free, fair, and credible elections in December 2024, unless all South Sudanese parties, leaders, and stakeholders grab the bull by the horns, and agree on a critical mass of decisions by the first quarter of 2024.” UNMISS