"INDIGENOUS PEOPLES"

Governments must embrace rights-based focus on those most at risk of HIV/AIDS, General Assembly speakers stress, amid differences over ‘key’ populations.

Press conference by Mr. Elliot Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, along with Mr. Nazrul Islam, Officer-in-Charge, Development Research Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN DESA and Lead Author of the World Social Report 2021; on the World Social Report 2021: Reconsidering Rural Development.

This high-level event brings together UN officials, civil society representatives, academics, journalists, as well as representatives of affected communities in order to exchange information on and raise awareness about the human rights situation in Xinjiang. Participants wll discuss how the UN system, member states and civil society can support and advocate for the human rights of members of ethnic Turkic communities in Xinjiang.

‘Stay the course’, build on progress already made, Special Representative urges parties to Colombia peace accord, in briefing to Security Council.

Briefing by Brenden Varma, Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

Taking up Fifth Committee reports, General Assembly adopts texts on common system, Joint Inspection Unit, special subjects related to 2021 programme budget.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

While apartheid ‘lies dead, racism lives on’, says United Nations Chief, as General Assembly observes Day for Eliminating Racial Discrimination.

Virtual Press Conference by Elliott Harris, UN Chief Economist, along with Anne Nuorgam, Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Rosemary Lane, Officer-in-Charge Indigenous Peoples, Development Branch Division for Inclusive Social Development, DESA; on the launch of the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Volume V.

Rural small-scale producers are amongst those disproportionately affected by the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions and should not be forgotten in the discussions about how to recover from this health and economic emergency. IFAD