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The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General said today that COVID-19 remains a global health emergency, even though, as the world enters the fourth year of the pandemic, “there is no doubt we are in a far better situation now than we were a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak.” WHO

UN human rights chief Volker Türk called on Thursday for an independent investigation into ongoing deadly violence against protesters in Iran, where security forces have used “live ammunition, birdshot and other metal pellets, teargas and batons”, he told the Human Rights Council in Geneva. UNTV CH

Executions for drug-related offences have resumed in Saudi Arabia, UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell told the biweekly press briefing in Geneva. UNTV CH

559 million children are currently exposed to high heatwave frequency, according to new research from UNICEF. Further, 624 million children are exposed to one of three other high heat measures - high heatwave duration, high heatwave severity or extreme high temperatures. UNICEF

In his address to the General Assembly’s General Debate, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Israel “will do whatever it takes” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. UNIFEED

The United Nations received pledges and commitments “sufficient to start the FSO Safer salvage operation,” David Gressly, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

After four years as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet held her final press conference in Geneva and said, “the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ever-increasing effects of climate change, and the reverberating shocks of the food, fuel and finance crisis resulting from the war against Ukraine have been the three major issues” of her mandate. OHCHR

The United Nations in Somalia congratulated President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on his inauguration, and said it looks forward to working with his administration in support of achieving national priorities. UNSOM

After more than seven years of war, over 23 million Yemenis face hunger, disease, and other life-threatening risks as the country’s basic services and economy are collapsing, according to the UN Office for Humanitarian Coordination (OCHA). UNTV CH

Briefing the Security Council on recent developments in Iraq, Hennis-Plasschaert said, “the priority should be to urgently agree on a programme of action that –immediately and meaningfully–tackles Iraq’s long list of outstanding domestic business.” UNIFEED