"FISHERIES"

A new UN report warns that global progress against child labour has stalled for the first time since the last two decades. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to push millions more children into child labour unless urgent mitigation measures are taken. In Guatemala FAO works with partners to reduce child labour and rural poverty by promoting education and safe youth employment in agri-food systems. FAO

A new UN report warns that global progress against child labour has stalled for the first time since the last two decades. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to push millions more children into child labour unless urgent mitigation measures are taken. In Cambodia, FAO is supporting fisheries communities to better understand the benefits of reducing child labour and improving children’s access to affordable and quality education. FAO

Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Inger Andersen told the Security Council that a spill or an explosion of the SAFER oil tanker off the coast of Yemen would “directly affect millions of people in a country that is already enduring the world's largest humanitarian emergency.” UNIFEED

The statement issued by the Sana’a’s SAFER committee “would seem to confirm that Ansar Allah is not ready to provide the assurances we need to deploy a UN mission to the SAFER tanker,” the UN Spokesperson said on Wednesday. UNIFEED

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN chief António Guterres said, “2020 was 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial times. We are getting dangerously close to the 1.5 degree Celsius limit that was set by the scientific community. We are on the verge of the abyss.” UNIFEED

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala took office as the seventh Director-General of the WTO on 1 March. She became the first woman and the first African to serve as Director-General. “We have a lot of work to do. So I feel ready to go”, she said as she entered the building. WTO

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

The United Nations’ support to Jubaland in areas ranging from primary health and wellbeing to economic empowerment and protection of the most vulnerable were among the topics covered today by a high-level delegation to the southern Federal Member State. UNSOM

Ambassador Santiago Wills of Colombia, chair of the fisheries subsidies negotiations, said while progress has been made, a conclusion to the negotiations is not possible by year end, in part because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the negotiations. WTO