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UN Special Envoy for education Gordon Brown appealed for urgent new funding for lost generations of over 30 million displaced and refugee young people. UNIFEED

The Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, told the Security Council that the agreement reached in December of last year by the warring parties in Stockholm was “a breakthrough” and that “perhaps for one day at least, we can be heartened rather than dismayed by challenges.” UNIFEED

The World Food Programme (WFP) said its emergency response in Yemen was its largest anywhere in the world as it was aiming to feed some 12 million of the most hungry and vulnerable people each month. WFP

The Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Zahir Tanin, told the Security Council that “antagonistic gestures and accusations continue to be far more prominent” than efforts for a resumption of political dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Lieutenant General Michael Anker Lollesgaard of Denmark as the Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) and Head of the United Nations Mission in support of the Hudaydah Agreement in Yemen who will succeed retired Major General Patrick Cammaert of the Netherlands. UNIFEED

UNICEF Director of Emergency Operations Manuel Fontaine warned that there has “never been as much conflict in the world in the past 30 years as this year” as his agency appealed for 3.9 billion USD to support its humanitarian work around the world. UNTV CH

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that millions of children living in countries affected by conflict and disaster lack access to vital child protection services, putting their safety, well-being and futures at risk and appealed for 3.9 billion USD to support them. UNICEF

In his address to the World Economic Forum today in Davos, Switzerland, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the climate change as the “most important systemic risk for the near future.” WEF

Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon said the Iranian “terror machine” was attempting to close in on his country on four fronts and stressed that Israel would “never let Iran win, not in Syria, not in Lebanon, not in Judea and Samaria, not in Gaza, not anywhere.” UNIFEED

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) urged European governments to agree on a region-wide approach to better protect refugee and migrant children who continue to face grave dangers and violations of their basic rights during dangerous sea journeys and on arrival to Europe. UNICEF