"UNEMPLOYMENT"

Addressing root causes of conflict vital for sustaining peace as COVID-19 reverses peacebuilding gains, facilitates intolerance, speakers warn Security Council.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Young people in Tonga are learning the traditional craft of canoe making to create jobs, tackle obesity and protect their local fishing ecosystems. IFAD

Following the announcement of the creation of a new Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for a Just Transition, which aims to create at least 400 million jobs by 2030, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena said, “there is growing inequalities and asymmetries between the developed and developing countries in terms of vaccines, of wealth, of financing, and we are confronting a divergent recovery” from the COVID 19 pandemic. UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “uneven, unfair recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic “is eroding trust between the developed and developing world,” and stressed that many developing countries “urgently need a helping hand.” UNIFEED

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the General Assembly’s General Debate that Iran’s nuclear program “has hit a watershed moment, and so has our tolerance,” adding that “words do not stop centrifuges from spinning.” UNIFEED

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said his country " has known its hardest times” over the past two years “whereas successive crises – some inherited and ramified and some urgent - exploded simultaneously, affecting all sectors.” UNIFEED

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid said opportunities for women and children globally have been hit hard by COVID-19 and stressed that this represents the “silent testimony, a dark shadow of this pandemic.” UNIFEED

Launching his report on 'Our Common Agenda', UN chief António Guterres said, the world is “moving in the wrong direction,” and the choices we make now could “put us on a path towards breakdown and a future of perpetual crisis; or breakthrough to a greener and safer world.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres sets out his vision for the future of global cooperation as he launched a landmark new report, Our Common Agenda.