"GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE"

As World AIDS Day approaches, UNAIDS urges governments to empower grassroots communities worldwide to lead the fight to end AIDS. A new report by UNAIDS, Let Communities Lead, shows that AIDS can be ended as a public health threat by 2030, but only if communities on the frontlines get the full support they need from governments and donors. UNAIDS

Briefing by Monica Grayley, Spokesperson for the President of the 78th Session of the General Assembly.

The UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohammed, said, “Halfway through the 2030 Agenda, we are far from achieving the target of eliminating violence against women and girls. It transcends borders and cultures.” UNIFEED

Wrapping up her second visit to the Horn of Africa country, the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Somalia highlighted the interlinkages of human rights and other developments in the country. UNSOM

United Nations peacekeeping operations: Police Commissioners.

The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Natalia Kanem, said, “despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad now hosts more than a million refugees, including newly some half a million who fled the conflict in Sudan over the past six months. Most women and children.” UNIFEED

Press conference by Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on her findings on her recent mission to Chad where she met with Gender-based Violence and fistula survivors, as well as women leaders.

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that “where wars rage, women suffer,” and said, “twenty-three years after this Council adopted resolution 1325, women’s participation should be a default, not an afterthought. But that is not the case.” UNIFEED

Comments to the media by Sérgio França Danese, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, on behalf of the representatives from Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States, on Women, Peace and Security - Security Council Media Stakeout.

Security Council open debate in connection with "Women's participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice" under the agenda item "Women and peace and security".