"SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS"

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the devastating Israeli airstrikes that killed World Central Kitchen personnel bring the number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196, is "unconscionable.” He reiterated that the Security Council resolution “must be implemented without delay.” UNIFEED

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water, highlighted that tensions over water are exacerbating conflicts worldwide. UNIFEED

In Papua New Guinea, home to the world's third-largest rainforest, Indigenous Peoples are custodians of almost all the forested land. Now, they are being equipped with ground-breaking technology. These tools, which run on tablets or smartphones, will allow them to demarcate their forest and monitor the area to make sure that it stays healthy and intact from incursions. FAO

On Women’s Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN System-Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan to place women and girls at the center of global initiatives. UNIFEED

Climate change disproportionately impacts women farmers in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing billions of dollars of losses among female-headed farming households and widening the income gap among the rural poor, reveals a groundbreaking Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report. FAO

The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly started at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. UNEP

The 13th World Trade Organization’s 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) opened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi as the Chairperson of the conference. WTO

Speaking at the International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly, General Assembly President Dennis Francis said, “a mere 33 percent of the world's researchers are women, this distressingly low figure is identical to the income gap across the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, where women earn about 33 percent less than their male counterparts, a disparity grossly exacerbated for women of color.” UNIFEED

Press Conference: António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General.

Press Conference: António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General.