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Prospects for women peacebuilders vastly worse than before pandemic as spoilers ramp up action aimed at silencing their voices, human rights chief warns Security Council.

Norway will hold an open debate to address how the intimidation of and violence and reprisals against women – because of their engagement in peace and security processes – threaten our shared goal of ensuring women's full, equal and meaningful participation in all stages of peace processes.

Launching the World Economic and Social Prospects 20122 (WESP 2022) the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Liu Zhenmin, said full global recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic “is still a long way off.” UNIFEED

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, “vaccine inequity and health inequity overall were the biggest failures” of 2021, stressing that to end the acute stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific tools “need to be shared fairly and quickly with all countries of the world.” WHO

Two years after the Global Refugee Forum, Rwanda shows how inclusive policies in education and livelihoods are unlocking the potential of refugees and their hosts. UNHCR

Approving $3.12 billion programme budget, General Assembly adopts 26 resolutions, 2 decisions, as main part of seventy-sixth session concludes.

Security Council resolves to consider during mandate renewals role of peace operations in curbing illicit weapons flow, adopting resolution 2616 (2021) by recorded vote.

Possibilities for political progress in Syria must be explored, Special Envoy tells Security Council, as governments trade blame over sources of insecurity.

General Assembly takes action on Second Committee reports by adopting 37 resolutions, 2 decisions.

Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo appealed to the United States to lift its sanctions on Iran as outlined in the JCPOA and called on Iran “to reverse the steps it has taken that are not consistent with its nuclear-related commitments under the Plan.” UNIFEED