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High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, met virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping. She made these opening remarks and said it was “a priority to engage with the government of China directly to see how we can collaborate on human rights issues domestically, regional and global.” OHCHR

Amid alarm over Mali’s withdrawal from regional security architecture, top peace official briefs Security Council on challenges to ending terrorism in Sahel.

Recent flare-up of violence threatens apparent calm between Sudan, South Sudan, speakers warn, as Security Council considers mandate of Abyei security force.

Briefing Security Council on Serbia, Kosovo, top United Nations official, speakers urge restraint, continued dialogue amidst violence, rising tensions, accusations.

The human rights situation in Somalia came under the spotlight with the first visit of the United Nations Independent Expert Isha Dyfan who noted progress and challenges and called for more international support for human rights in the country. UNSOM

Briefing General Assembly, International Mechanism head calls crimes committed in Syria ‘barbaric’, urges pursuing accountability.

Briefing General Assembly, International Mechanism head calls crimes committed in Syria ‘barbaric’, urges pursuing accountability.

Adopting resolution 2626 (2022), Security Council extends United Nations Mission in Afghanistan for one year.

A recent two-day training by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) brought together participants from the country’s Central Equatoria State to discuss managing returns and the reintegration of Internally Displaced People and Returnees. UNMISS

UN Special Representative for South Sudan Nicholas Haysom said, though progress has been “undeniably slow, there is still space, even a window of opportunity, to capitalise on the country’s relative stability to pursue genuine democratic transition.” UNIFEED