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Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar visited Sri Lanka in his role as the UNICEF South Asia Regional Goodwill Ambassador from 6-8 August 2023. UNICEF

June 16 marks the International Day of Family Remittances, led by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). IFAD

This year’s World Health Assembly concluded on Tuesday, with the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, describing the event as “long but fruitful”. WHO

The 21st session of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation opened on Tuesday to discuss issues like recovery from the pandemic, climate change and ongoing conflicts. UNIFEED

Around 90 per cent of adolescent girls and young women do not use the internet in low-income countries, while their male peers are twice as likely to be online, according to a new UNICEF analysis issued on International Day of Girls in ICT. UNICEF

New data indicates declining confidence in childhood vaccines of up to 44 percentage points in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. UNICEF

Sri Lankan farmers are making use of a newly developed digital platform to address water scarcity caused by climate change. FAO

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

The steep increase in the number of Rohingya refugees risking their lives to cross the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal last year is a reflection of their growing desperation, says the UN refugee agency. UNTV CH

Amid a looming food-security crisis linked to Sri Lanka’s cost-of-living crunch, the country’s most vulnerable breadwinners wonder how much longer they can cope, as the Government battles the nation’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. UNTV CH