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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through a data-driven process called Anticipatory Action, systematically links early warnings to actions designed to protect families and their assets ahead of a natural disaster. FAO

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as the current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either the socioeconomic or the environmental Goals of this Agenda, according to a new UN report issued on Thursday. UNIFEED

General Assembly declares 2022 International Year of Glass, adopts 4 texts on Aral Sea region, financing for Darfur mission.

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda urged the Libyan Government of National Unity to take “urgent steps to put an end to the crimes committed in detention centres and to fully investigate allegations of arbitrary detention, torture, confiscation of property, rape and other forms of sexual violence, including in prisons and detention facilities.” UNIFEED

The UN Human Rights Office is “deeply disturbed” by the killing of at least 25 people in a police operation in the Jacarezinho neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Thursday and called upon the Office of the Prosecutor to conduct “an independent, thorough and impartial investigation into this incident in accordance with international standards.” OHCHR

In his last address to the Security Council as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko briefed members states on the political situation in the country, where “its political leaders continue to pursue wartime goals, generate divisive narratives and nationalistic political agendas and speak about a dissolution of the state.” UNIFEED

Speakers hail late Chad President’s role in securing stability at home, fighting extremism abroad, as General Assembly honours Idriss Déby Itno.

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix asked the Security Council to consider a roll over mandate for the UN mission in Abyei (UNISFA) for six months “in order to give the parties the space to discuss future arrangements and the way forward.” UNIFEED

In times of global crises, collaboration between regional organizations, United Nations has ‘grown exponentially’, Secretary-General tells Security Council.

The vaccination campaign for United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic was launched on Monday. MINUSCA