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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

Paying tribute to Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of his birthday, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Madiba’s call for social cohesion and a culture of peace are particularly relevant today, with hate speech casting a growing shadow around the world.” UNIFEED

Marking the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development, UN chief Antonio Guterres said, “completing the unfinished business of the Cairo Conference will put us on course to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to ensure lives of peace, prosperity and dignity for all.” UNIFEED

UN chief Antonio Guterres said, “The evidence is clear: development is not sustainable if it is not fair and inclusive -- and rising inequality hinders long-term growth.” UNIFEED

“No country has achieved full gender equality and women continue to face discrimination in every region of the world,” President of the General Assembly, Maria Espinosa said at the opening of a high-level meeting of the Assembly titled “Gender equality and women’s leadership for a sustainable world.” UNIFEED

UN Senior Official Liu Zhenmin said that despite efforts made, “progress is slow” on many Sustainable Development Goals, adding that “our collective ambition for realizing the 2030 Agenda hinges on how we manage the evolving risks and challenges, and whether we seize the social, economic and environmental opportunities before us.” UNIFEED

The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Myanmar, Christine Schraner-Burgener said, “a key step to democratic consolidation” in the Southeast Asian nation “will be ending the vicious cycle of discrimination and violence, especially in Rakhine.” UNIFEED

Commenting on the recent photo of a migrant father and his 23-month-old daughter who had drowned trying to cross into the United States from Mexico, the President of the General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa, said, “we cannot have more people die because they decide to migrate.” UNIFEED

At a meeting on combating anti-Semitism and other forms of racism and hate, UN chief António Guterres said, “we need to invest in social cohesion so that all members of society can feel that their identities are respected and that they have a stake in the future.” UNIFEED

Speaking at the opening of the 2019 pledging conference for UNRWA, officially the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UN Chief António Guterres said, “given what is at stake at the human level, at the political and security level, and at the multilateral level, we must rise to the challenge and empower UNRWA to continue its important and impressive work.” UNIFEED