"FAMILY"

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi met Rohingya refugees in Bhasan Char during a five-day visit to Bangladesh. UNHCR

UN Secretary-General António Guterres “expressed his shock and sadness at the heinous mass shooting that took place at an elementary school in Uvalde, in Texas. It is particularly heart-wrenching that most of the victims are children,” said a UN Spokesperson. UNIFEED

A Senior Civil Affairs Officer from the United Nations in Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) called for an urgent healing and reconciliation process in the southern part of South Sudan’s Unity State, where gruesome attacks on communities in the area have resulted in deaths, beheadings, sexual violence, and abductions. UNMISS

The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has now crossed the staggering milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts. UNHCR

UN Humanitarian Affairs chief Martin Griffiths said, “the situation in Al Hol is a disgrace,” and called once again on all member states involved to “take urgent action to fulfill their responsibility to repatriate their citizens through all available routes.” UNIFEED

The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for greater funding for agriculture to ensure there’s available and accessible food in crisis situations, noting that conflict “remains the single greatest driver of hunger.” FAO

The President of the General Assembly convenes the first International Migration Review Forum (IMRF), the primary intergovernmental global platform for Member States to assess and deliberate on implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, including as it relates to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Mass displacement due to drought and conflict has resulted in devastating food insecurity in the Afar region in Ethiopia, pushing children and their families to the brink. UNICEF

Yemeni honey is globally appreciated, the country’s tradition of beekeeping goes back centuries. Poems and songs have praised its many virtues, but local bees and beekeepers are threatened by increasing challenges due to the ongoing conflict. FAO

United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, model and actress Sabrina Dhowre Elba, visited Kenya recently to draw attention to the increasing threat that climate change, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine are having on small-scale farmers’ productivity and livelihoods in Africa and around the world. IFAD