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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

Thousands of young women from Nepal leave their country to work abroad not having the basic skills needed for their new jobs overseas and may be at risk for abuse and exploitation. The ILO-DFID "Work in Freedom" program offers vocational and skills training, helping them to make a more informed choice about working abroad. ILO

The head of the World Food Programme David Beasley said today the WFP is preparing for “a worst case scenario” in Yemen, which would be if the Hodeidah port becomes “unoperational.” UNTV CH

Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters that the situation in Yemen is “at a very crucial moment” as “there is a chance to be able to start effective negotiations in Sweden early in December.” UNIFEED

Yemen’s lifeline port of Hodeidah has seen its operations slump by nearly half in the last two weeks, a spokesperson of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today, adding that the high levels of insecurity in the Houthi-held city have prevented shipping companies from going about their business. UNTV CH