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International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim opened the 33rd session of the IMO Assembly (A 33), which is meeting at IMO Headquarters in London from 27 November – 6 December 2023. IMO

A once-daily dose of a widely available medicine taken over six months cut a child’s risk of developing the most dangerous and difficult form of tuberculosis (TB) by more than half, according to results from a major clinical trial funded by Unitaid and led by Stellenbosch University. UNITAID

The UN General Assembly elected 15 new countries to serve on the Human Rights Council. UNIFEED

Dina Boluarte, President of the Republic of Peru, said, “¡Amaña warmi maqay kachunchu! In our Runasimi, I want to tell the world: No more violence against women.” UNIFEED

Addressing the participants of a high-level event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UN LGBTI Core Group, Hanke Bruins Slot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs said, “in far too many places around the world we are seeing a targeted hate campaign against LGBTIQ people simply for being who they are and loving who they love.” UNIFEED

UNICEF’s Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Gary Conille, warned today about “a stark and alarming reality”, with children “migrating within Latin America and the Caribbean at an unprecedented rate, constituting a larger share of the migrant population than any other region worldwide.” UNIFEED

The number of civilians killed and injured by cluster munitions in the past year has reached with more than 1,000 casualties the highest ever recorded, mostly due to their use in the Ukraine war, said the UN-partnered Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) civil society group today at the launch of its report. UNTV CH

Continued record illicit drug supply and increasingly agile trafficking networks are compounding intersecting global crises and challenging health services and law enforcement responses, according to the World Drug Report 2023 launched by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today. UNIFEED / UNODC

The head of the UN World Health Organization said that in Sudan “about two thirds of health facilities in affected areas are out of service” and “repeated attacks on health facilities, medical warehouses, ambulances and health workers are preventing patients and health workers from reaching hospitals.” WHO

The UN refugee agency calls for concerted action as forced displacement hits new record in 2022. UNHCR