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A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve its global target of reducing sodium intake by 30 percent by 2025. WHO

Amid violence, mass forced displacement, ‘lives of millions’ of Ukrainian civilians at stake, humanitarian affairs chief tells Security Council.

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”

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

The United Nations reported today that in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so far, 27 people have died from the Ebola Virus Disease, while a total of 58 Ebola virus disease cases have been reported in the country. UNIFEED /FILE

The number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. If current trends continue, more children and adolescents will be obese than moderately or severely underweight by 2022, according to a new WHO report released today. WHO

The UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein concluded a three-day visit to Ethiopia where he lauded development efforts in the country but also called for equal attention to all sets of rights. OHCHR

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan together with UN Women and South Sudan Women for Peace celebrated international women’s day in Juba on Sunday. UNMISS

Ahead of the climate summit at United Nations headquarters, the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS)  organized an event called  illUmiNations  – a visual showcase that tells the story of climate change and proposes the actions to be taken to combat it. UNIFEED-UNTV

The deputy-director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said that 14 journalists are jailed inEgyptincluding three Al Jazeera journalists, making Egyptthe biggest jailor of journalists in the Arab world “more thanSyriawhere there are about 12, that’s not a record that any country should be happy to have.” UNIFEED-UNTV