"PEACEMAKING"

Member States discuss how to advance, explore and consider options for ensuring adequate, predictable and sustained financing for peacebuilding.

The head of UN Mission in South Sudan Nicholas Haysom urged all parties, including non-signatories, to join the collective push for sustainable peace in the world’s youngest nation, as it faces surging subnational violence and a deepening humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by climate change and COVID-19. UNMISS

General Assembly Adopts 59 Third Committee Texts on Trafficking in Persons, Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines, as Delegates Spar over Language.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is helping South Sudanese women parliamentarians to take their rightful place at the table with their male peers by holding a series of workshops on their role and the inner workings of government. UNMISS

UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo said the risk of Ethiopia “descending into widening civil war is only too real” adding that the political repercussions of “intensifying violence in the wider region would be immense, compounding the many crises besetting the Horn of Africa.” UNIFEED

Voicing support for African Union’s peace efforts in Ethiopia, Security Council speakers urge political dialogue between parties to prevent disaster.

Secretary-General António Guterres said “Sudan has reached important milestones,” and the international community “must do everything possible” to help advance these efforts. UNIFEED

The virtual Side Event hosted by the UN Secretary-General and Norway on the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly provides an opportunity to take stock of the overall progress Sudan achieved thus far and to reconfirm international support for the transition at a critical time.

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Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution and human rights violations in 2020 rose to nearly 82.4 million people, according to UNHCR’s latest annual Global Trends report released on Friday.. This is a further four per cent increase on top of the already record-high 79.5 million at the end of 2019. UNHCR