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UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said humanitarian access to northern Ethiopia “remains challenging,” and noted that avoiding violence in the country would require “all those involved to engage in a political dialogue instead of a weapons dialogue.” UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, demanded that parties in Sudan “exercise utmost restraint” and called on the military “to release all those that were unlawfully detained today.” UNIFEED

A rarely highlighted consequence of active conflict is missing persons. In Tambura, South Sudan, ongoing armed attacks have not only displaced tens of thousands but has also rend families asunder. Many people have relatives who have disappeared without a trace. UNMISS

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

“Over eight months since the military takeover, the overall situation in Myanmar continues to deteriorate sharply with the conflict intensifying in many parts of the country,” the outgoing UN Special Envoy on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener said on Thursday. UNIFEED

Press briefing by Christine Schraner Burgener, Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Myanmar, on the situation in Myanmar.

Uptick in military coups, armaments race rapidly setting back clock on women’s rights, Secretary-General warns Security Council, at start of day-long debate.

Addressing the Security Council annual debate on women, peace and security Secretary-General António Guterres said, “today, women’s leadership is a cause, tomorrow, it must be the norm,” stressing that “we can no longer exclude one half of humanity from international peace and security.” UNIFEED

Uptick in military coups, armaments race rapidly setting back clock on women’s rights, Secretary-General warns Security Council, at start of day-long debate.

Caitlin Williscroft, a specialist who works for UN Women on the Women, Peace and Security Programme in the Afghanistan Country Office, is joined by Nahid Fareed, Parliamentarian, Chairperson of House Standing Committee for Human Rights, Civil Society and Women Affairs, as well as Mariam Safi, Executive Director of the Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS), to brief reporters in the context of the anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1325 and the open debate on Women, Peace and Security.