"HEALTH"

General Assembly adopts work programme, agenda for Seventy-Fourth session, retaining items on responsibility to protect, situation in Ukraine at 2nd plenary meeting.

Briefing by Reem Abaza, Spokesperson for the President of the 74th Session of the General Assembly.

A new International Finance Corporation (IFC) report calls for eliminating diesel and gasoline generators and replacing them for superior solar alternatives. IFC

The political leaders of war-torn South Sudan came together in song and dance with the country’s future leaders at a special event in the capital Juba to celebrate the International Day of Peace. UNMISS

Secretary-General António Guterres sat down with newly appointed Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming to discuss the issues that will be at the forefront during next week high-level events at United Nations Headquarters in New York. UNIFEED

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

Alberto Cairo has been awarded the Nansen Refugee Award’s regional winner prize for Asia this year in tribute to his remarkable career helping disabled Afghans. UNHCR

Despite more women and their children are surviving today than ever before, a pregnant woman or newborn dies somewhere in the world every 11 seconds, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released today by United Nations groups led by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO

Talking to reporters as a new session of the United Nations General Assembly begins, Secretary-General António Guterres said, the significance of the discussions during the upcoming high-level week can be distilled into two words: “ambition and action.” UNIFEED

Outlining top priorities, new General Assembly President highlights critical work in combating poverty, climate change, as he opens Seventy-Fourth session at 1st plenary meeting.