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Five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful trans fat, a new status report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has found, increasing their risk of heart disease and death. WHO

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that WHO still believes that COVID-19 deaths are "heavily underreported from China," reiterating the need for "doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.” WHO

The president of the Security Council for the month of January, Japan’s permanent representative Ishikane Kimihiro, said the renewal of the resolution allowing cross-border aid in north-west Syria “is a matter of life or death for so many people.” UNIFEED

Delivering a joint statement on behalf of many Member States, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield urged all Security Council members to support an open briefing in 2023 to “discuss the human rights violations and abuses committed by the DPRK, the implications for peace and security and explore ways to incorporate human rights into the peace and security diplomacy in the Korean peninsula.” UNIFEED

The Security Council adopted a “landmark” resolution establishing a humanitarian exemption to the asset freeze measures imposed by UN sanctions regimes. UNIFEED

Following the latest intercontinental ballistic missile test from the People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the top UN political affairs official told the Security Council that “tensions continue to increase” in the Korean Peninsula and “with no off ramps insight.” UNIFEED

Following the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) launch of an unprecedented number of cruise and ballistic missiles over the course of just 48 hours this week, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, said, “given the potential risks associated with any military confrontation, in exercise of its primary responsibility, the Security Council needs to do all it can to prevent an escalation.” UNIFEED

The General Assembly elected 14 Member States to serve a three-year term in the Human Rights Council. UNIFEED

A top United Nations official said that the DPRK’s launch of a long-range ballistic missile “was a reckless act and a clear violation of relevant Security Council resolutions.” UNIFEED

The Permanent Representative to the UN from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea told the General Assembly that “the security environment of the Korean Peninsula is now caught in a vicious cycle of hatred and confrontation due to the growing hostility of the United States and its following forces against the DPRK.” UNIFEED