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“Disparities in multi-dimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions,” according to the UNDP global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today, the United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the press conference in New York. UNIFEED

The WTO Public Forum, the largest yearly outreach event by the World Trade Organization, came back for its 20th edition after being cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. WTO

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his country is working on becoming “the world’s largest green hydrogen hub” and told world leaders, “We are answerable to our future generations when they ask, when it was time to take decisions, what were those people doing, those people whose responsibility it was to give direction to the world?” UNIFEED

In a pre-recorded message to the UN General Assembly, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan called for the international community to “strengthen the current government” of Afghanistan, “and stabilize it for the sake of the people of Afghanistan.” UNIFEED

Schoolchildren around the world have lost an estimated 1.8 trillion hours, and counting, of in-person learning since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. As a result, young learners have been cut off from their education and the other vital benefits schools provide. UNICEF

WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the longer COVID-19 vaccine inequity persists, “the more the virus will keep circulating and changing, the longer the social and economic disruption will continue, and the higher the chances that more variants will emerge that render vaccines less effective.” WHO

Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) said on Wednesday. UNTV CH

The Security Council adopted a resolution calling for unhindered access for humanitarian actors in Afghanistan and that Afghans be allowed to travel abroad via any border crossing, including at Kabul airport. UNIFEED

"I am concerned by the continued tragic loss of life and serious injuries in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland told the Security Council on Monday, calling on Israel to “fulfills its obligation to protect Palestinian civilians from violence, including by Israeli settlers.” UNIFEED

The Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism, Vladimir Voronkov, said, “we will need to ensure that Afghanistan is never again used as launching pad for global terrorism.” UNIFEED