"WOMEN"

Frustration and despair are overwhelming young Rohingya refugees in southeastern Bangladesh, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. The Agency's new report calls for urgent investment in education and skills development opportunities in and around the vast camps where most of the refugees live. UNICEF

South Sudanese women in Gok area celebrated the new peace resolution despite that women’s participation in peacebuilding and conflict-resolution process in the country has been limited. UNMISS

Members of the Security Council condemned in “the strongest terms the outrageous, deadly and totally inacceptable” car bomb attack on Saturday (10 Aug) in front of a shopping mall in Bengazhi, Libya, which left three UN staff members dead, and three others injured among dozens of civilians also wounded. Council members stood a minute of silence in remembrance of the victims. UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Briefing by Monica Grayley, Spokesperson for the President of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly.

Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said “we must remember and highlight that indigenous peoples in many parts of the world still do not enjoy basic rights,” enduring “systematic discrimination and exclusion which threaten their ways of life, cultures and identities.” UNIFEED

Life-saving food aid distribution is set to resume to 850,000 people in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, following guarantees by Houthi opposition forces that the supplies will reach those who need them most, the World Food Programme (WFP) said today. UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Press Briefing by the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.

UN chief for political and peacebuilding affairs Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council that the parties must fulfill their obligations under international law, to unilaterally release all arbitrarily detained or abducted persons in Syria. UNIFEED