"GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE"

Ahead of the General Assembly’s General Debate, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said it is “time to ring the alarm bell,” adding that his message to world leaders is: “wake up, change course, unite, and let's try to defeat the enormous challenges we are facing today.” UNIFEED

Deteriorating humanitarian situation in South Sudan, rising attacks on aid workers ‘worrying’ Special Representative tells Security Council.

Volker Perthes, Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) said the country’s transition continued to see progress as well as setbacks and challenges. UNIFEED

Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix met with women peacekeepers and women advocacy groups as he continues his official visit to South Sudan. UNMISS

Some 30 kilometres from Tambura in South Sudan’s Western Equatorial State, patrolling UN peacekeepers saw the devastation caused by violent conflict in the area. Thousands of people who have been displaced are suffering, many of them are women and children. UNMISS

The Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support hold a high-level event which aims to discuss successes in the field, highlighting key examples and outlining a way forward.

The unfolding situation in Afghanistan is causing significant disruption and threatens Afghanistan’s critical winter wheat season, which is about to begin, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Tuesday, ahead of a major fundraising conference for the country, that is due to take place in Geneva on 13 September. UNTV CH

Almost three years after the signing of the peace deal, South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly has been reconstituted in a formal ceremony presided over by President Salva Kiir. UNMISS

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York that “while the armies have left, the UN is committed to staying” in Afghanistan. UNIFEED

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said today “it is heartbreaking to see many young Ethiopians being instrumentalized and mobilized in the war effort,” and their energies “being channeled into a path of division and destruction instead of the path of building a better future.” UNIFEED