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Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed told the Security Council that, as the year comes to an end, “Haiti is in a deepening crisis of unprecedented scale and complexity that is cause for serious alarm.” UNIFEED

Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed on November 25th, a new report by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) indicates that more than five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family. UNIFEED

A top UN official said that there is “quite a rapid and striking” increase of cholera cases in Haiti. UNIFEED

Security Council establishes sanctions regime on Haiti, unanimously Adopting Resolution 2653 (2022).

The Vice-President of Brazil, Antônio Hamilton Martins Mourão, flanked by representatives of Albania, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates, expressed concern about the “rapid deterioration of the human rights situation in Haiti,” particularly “reports of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and sexual slavery.” UNIFEED

UN senior official for Haiti, Helen La Lime, told the Security Council, “the protracted insecurity and prolonged political uncertainty, combined with a dire economic situation and growing humanitarian needs, are severely hindering the country’s socio-economic development, widening economic inequalities, and undermining peacebuilding efforts.” UNIFEED

In Sudan, frequent fighting between farmers and herders over water and grazing land causes injuries and deaths. According to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), access to water and conflict resolution centres can considerably help address the water wars. IFAD

Small arms trafficking is a “defining factor in undermining peace and security”, the Director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) told the Security Council during a ministerial debate. UNIFEED

Colombian President Ivan Duque said it was a “moral duty” for the international community “to strengthen multilateralism in the area of health and to make progress in vaccine distribution equity.” UNIFEED

Health, inequality dangerously linked, speakers warn, stressing exclusion, disparity impeding ability to contain COVID-19, on day three of high-level political forum.