"LITERATURE"

“Throughout the world, a free press is essential for peace, justice, sustainable development and human rights — and the cornerstone for building fair and impartial institutions,” the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said congratulating Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov on being awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. UNIFEED

Despite the pressures of her duties serving in the UNMISS Joint Operations Centre at Force Headquarters in Juba, an Australian army officer is using her rare spare time to lead a project to help local children access education at schools near the United Nations base. UNMISS

Patients with COVID-19 should not be given the antiviral drug remdesivir “regardless of disease severity”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. UNTV CH

World Bank Global Director for Gender Caren Grown detailed the unique impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on women and girls, highlighting the fact that the crisis “has differential impacts on men and on women and on boys and girls, as a result of a number of factors in terms of their biology and physiology, but also because of their social and economic roles in the different societies in which they live." WORLD BANK

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus said, "medical masks must be prioritized for health workers on the front lines of the response, adding that the Organization is "concerned that the mass use of medical masks by the general population could exacerbate the shortage of these specialized masks for the people who need them most." WHO

The number of international migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million in 2019, an increase of 51 million since 2010, according to a new United Nations report, which shows that in recent years, the number of international migrants has grown faster than the world’s population. UNIFEED

Addressing a commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Secretary-General António Guterres paid homage “to the millions of African men, women and children who were denied their humanity and forced to endure abominable cruelty across centuries.” UNIFEED

At a high-level event to mark the global launch of the International Year of Indigenous Languages the President of the General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa, said indigenous languages “are unique systems of knowledge and understanding of the world” and are “invaluable for humanity.” UNIFEED

Launch of the Eavan Boland Poem: Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women.

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