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Central bank governors and finance ministers of the G20 nations met in Washington on Friday at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. IMF

In its 2018 report on the death penalty, Amnesty International found that global executions fell by 31 percent marking the lowest recorded number in a decade. UNIFEED

In her annual report to the Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said she is concerned by “the apparently arbitrary arrest and detention, and alleged ill-treatment or torture, of several women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia.” UNTV CH

Donors had pledged USD 2.6 billion “to help address the dramatic humanitarian situation in Yemen”, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday following a high-level pledging conference for the war-torn country. UNTV CH

The UN human rights expert Agnès Callamard is to head an international inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, starting with a visit to Turkey from 28 January to 3 February 2019, the United Nations human rights office OHCHR said Friday. UNIFEED

In his address to the World Economic Forum today in Davos, Switzerland, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the climate change as the “most important systemic risk for the near future.” WEF

Saudi national Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun “cannot be sent back” to the Kingdom, in keeping with international law, UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday, adding that it was in contact “on a daily basis” with the 18-year-old who is in Thailand seeking asylum. UNTV CH

The criminal trial in Saudi Arabia of individuals suspected of being involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi does not meet the requirements of an independent and international probe requested by the UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, her office said on Friday. UNTV CH

Speaking to journalists at UN headquarters today, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the Iran nuclear deal as a “failed agreement” and called on the Security Council to “get serious” about the “real risk” of nuclear proliferation from “the Iranian regime.” UNIFEED

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, told reporters that a quarter of a million people in Yemen are now in phase 5 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), “at the catastrophe level.” UNIFEED