"SOCIAL MEDIA"

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 77th Session of the General Assembly.

Opening the UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General said that “the deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B.” UNIFEED

Amid a looming food-security crisis linked to Sri Lanka’s cost-of-living crunch, the country’s most vulnerable breadwinners wonder how much longer they can cope, as the Government battles the nation’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. UNTV CH

Milano Check Point, based in Milan, Italy, provides free and anonymous sexual health services to the local community, including rapid testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and administration of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to help prevent HIV infection. Since the monkeypox outbreak in Italy, Check Point volunteers have also been providing vital outreach services. WHO

A two-day meeting of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee in India has ended with the adoption of a document committing Member States to prevent and combat digital forms of terror, notably using drones, social media, and online terrorist financing. UNIFEED

The UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said, “An escalation in hostilities in northern Syria this month has resulted in the deaths and injuries of civilians. This worrying development was also marked by the targeted killing in eastern rural Aleppo of a social media activist and his pregnant wife.” UNTV CH

Protect freedom of expression as a vital ‘survival right’ of civilians in armed conflict, a UN expert said. UNIFEED

Ahead of a special meeting of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee to take place in Mumbai and New Delhi at the end of the month, the Committee Chair, Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj of India, said the meeting “will serve to reflect on recent developments and the latest evidence-based research regarding the threats” posed by the use of new technologies for terrorist purposes. UNIFEED

Amid ongoing protests across Iran in the wake of the death of a 22-year-old woman, who was arrested for having “improper clothing”, the UN Human Rights office (OHCHR) expressed strong concerns about the violent response by security forces to protests. UNTV CH

President of Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová told the General Assembly, “we must choose international rules-based order over the power of gun. We must urgently deliver on our climate goals and find working rules for social media platforms to protect our societies and international order.” UNIFEED