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More than 1,000 Indigenous Peoples participants from all over the world gathered at United Nations Headquarters to participate in the eighteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. This year’s session is focused on the generation, transmission and protection of indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge. UNIFEED

UNHCR opened a reception centre in March in the Colombian city of Maicao, providing temporary shelter to hundreds of vulnerable Venezuelan refugees who had been living in the streets. Darlys and her two children are among them. UNHCR

Presenting the report of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence, his Special Representative, Pramila Patten, said “wars are still being fought very much on and over the bodies of women and girls.” UNIFEED

The World Health Organization (WHO) said an oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaign targeting some 487,825 people began Tuesday in Zimbabwe in the two districts most affected by Cyclone Idai. WHO

A top UN official told reporters in Geneva help is needed urgently from the international community for some 2,500 apparently stateless “foreign children” at a camp in north-east Syria. UNTV CH

A high-level delegation led by the Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, travelled into the heart of opposition territory in the central Equatorias, the only part of the country where political violence continues despite the signing of a peace deal to end the war that has plagued South Sudan for almost six years. UNMISS

The Joint Special Representative for the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) said Darfur “is not, and cannot, be immune from what is happening at the national level” and hoped that the situation “does not deteriorate further and have a negative impact of the UNAMID’s envisaged exit.” UNIFEED

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) relocated another 150 refugees who were detained in the Abu Selim detention centre in south Tripoli to UNHCR’s Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF) in the centre of Libya’s capital, safe from hostilities. UNHCR

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

One month on since Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique on 14 March, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached one million people with food assistance and continues to expand its emergency response while launching recovery and reconstruction interventions. WFP