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The situation for Sudan’s most vulnerable children is so desperate that half of the most severely malnourished youngsters are expected to die without urgent humanitarian intervention, UN agencies said on Friday. UNTV CH

Millions of people in Pakistan are still deeply affected by catastrophic flooding, which “is not going anywhere,” UN relief agencies said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

With COVID-19 exposing the fault-lines of education systems globally, more than 130 countries committed to rebooting their education systems and accelerating action to end the learning crisis, at the UN Transforming Education Summit. UNIFEED

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s Director-General, said that two-thirds of the 771 million adults worldwide who lack basic literacy skills are women. UNIFEED

Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait said that the number of children and youth in armed conflict, has increased from 75 million to 222 million “over the past four or five years only.” UNIFEED

Speaking at the Transforming Education Summit, Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell said, “it's absolutely clear that children, especially the most marginalized children, that’s girls, that’s children with disabilities, children living in humanitarian crises, are facing a true crisis in education.” UNIFEED

Addressing Leaders Day at the Transforming Education Summit taking place at UN Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “instead of being the great enabler, education is fast becoming a great divider,” and called for a “new vision for education in the 21st century.” UNIFEED

Opening the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) Moment in New York, UN Secretary-General said the meeting happens “at a critical point" in the world and urged countries to take more action. UNIFEED

The UN General Assembly, starting on Tuesday (20 Sep) in New York, brings the world together to exchange ideas, negotiate and make progress on global challenges. The annual event stands for the UN’s guiding principle of “words, not weapons.” UN VIDEO

The Transforming Education Summit kicked off at the UN headquarters in New York with the Mobilization Day, where the Secretary-General received the first ever Youth Declaration on Transforming Education, the result of the participation of almost half a million children and young people from over 170 countries. UNIFEED