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The ten elected members and five incoming members of the Security Council called on the Taliban to immediately reverse the decision to exclude girls from secondary education in Afghanistan. UNIFEED

World leaders started arriving at United Nations Headquarters for the 77th session of the General Assembly’s General Debate, after two years of virtual and hybrid summits wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. UNIFEED

Asking for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told the General Assembly’s General Debate that his country supports “all efforts to reduce the economic impacts of this crisis”, but it does “not believe that the best way is to adopt unilateral and selective sanctions, that are inconsistent with International Law.” UNIFEED

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

UN Secretary-General António Guterres held a press conference Thursday in Lviv, Ukraine, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. OCHA

The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined significantly in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported today. UNIFEED

The Security Council voted to renew the mandate of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for a period of three months, until 31 October. The three African Council members, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya, known as the A3, abstained. UNIFEED

A new agreement will allow for generic production of first and only long-acting injectable HIV prevention in 90 countries where the majority of new HIV infections occur. UNITAID

The Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) told the Security Council that for the first time the PBC has shared its Programme of Work with the General Assembly and Security Council through formal communications, “a major step towards institutionalization of the advisory relations between PBC and other organs of the United Nations.” UNIFEED

The Vice-President of Brazil, Antônio Hamilton Martins Mourão, flanked by representatives of Albania, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates, expressed concern about the “rapid deterioration of the human rights situation in Haiti,” particularly “reports of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and sexual slavery.” UNIFEED