"GENDER ISSUES"

UN Women will launch its new report “Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19”. The new data shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has further intensified gender-based violence. UNIFEED

Security Council, renewing arms embargo on Somalia, authorization to inspect vessels, adopts resolution 2607 (2021) by 13 votes in favour, 2 abstentions.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said the women, peace and security agenda is “infused in all aspects” of the UN’s Action for Peacekeeping implementation strategy (A4P+) and remains the “foundation for improving” the overall effectiveness of peacekeeping operations. UNIFEED

Women took the global stage today in Glasgow to show that climate change isn’t gender neutral, and that climate action needs to invest in women and girls. UNIFEED

Press Conference by Michèle Coninsx, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, on the Security Council's special meeting to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Resolution 1373 and the establishment of the Counter-Terrorism Committee.

Speakers chart best way to move United Nations forward as General Assembly considers Secretary-General’s landmark report on reform proposals, multilateral action.

United Nations Police officers deployed to UNMISS consistently work to build capacities among their local counterparts. UNPOL recently teamed up with the UN Peacekeeping mission’s Gender Unit to provide a three-day intensive course on gender-responsive policing to 54 senior officers from the South Sudan Police Service.UNMISS

Taliban can’t rule Afghanistan without women, said an Afghan political campaigner Zarifa Ghafari – a former mayor who fled Kabul last month – insisting that the Taliban must allow women to play a meaningful part in Afghanistan’s future. UNTV CH

Women across South Sudan suffered immense harm as the result of the civil war. Many lost their lives, their families, their homes, and their jobs. Three years after the signing of the peace deal, they are playing a significant role in the recovery and rebuilding effort. UNMISS

Secretary-General António Guterres is “following with deep concern” the latest developments in Afghanistan, including the fighting in Herat and Kandahar, and expressed hope that the discussions this week in Doha “will restore the pathway to a negotiated settlement to the conflict,” his spokesperson said. UNIFEED