"ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS"

“Disparities in multi-dimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions,” according to the UNDP global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today, the United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the press conference in New York. UNIFEED

As monsoon season nears, dangerous new crisis looms for Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh, United Nations High Commissioner warns Security Council at 8179th meeting.

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

François Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the UN, and Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, speak to journalists regarding the situation in Myanmar.

Kofi Annan, Chair of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State (Myanmar) and former Secretary-General of the UN, briefs journalists on the situation in Myanmar.

Welcoming Kosovo’s recent free and fair elections, the head of the United Nations mission there stressed today the need to form a new government without delay, at 8025th meeting.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, visited a UNHCR supported project in Maungdaw, Myanmar, aimed at promoting peaceful co-existence through vocational training classes. UNHCR

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

Annual commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda (7 April).

The Security Council condemned in the strongest terms all instances of human trafficking as it heard from more than 70 speakers during a day-long open debate, at 7847th meeting.