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The Security Council adopted a resolution demanding a sustained humanitarian pause to allow for COVID-19 vaccinations. UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward said the resolution, cosponsored by 112 member states “will help bring vaccines to 160 million people in conflict affected areas, or displaced by conflict.” UNIFEED

World-renowned natural historian Sir David Attenborough told the Security Council the world is “perilously close to tipping points that once past will send global temperatures spiralling catastrophically higher,” and said, “If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security." UNIFEED

The UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution calling urgently for the immediate and unconditional release of all persons arbitrarily detained in Myanmar, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint and others, and the lifting of the state of emergency. UNTV CH

The members of the Security Council welcomed the efforts made by the leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia and the Federal member states to find agreement on the implementation of the 17 September electoral model. UNIFEED

“We need more ambition, more ambition on mitigation, ambition on adaptation and ambition on finance,” to achieve goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday. UNIFEED

In a statement issued today, the members of the Security Council expressed deep concern at the declaration of the state of emergency imposed in Myanmar by the military on 1 February and the arbitrary detention of members of the Government, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint and others. UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, the very tools that could help to end the pandemic – vaccines – may exacerbate existing inequalities, adding “vaccine nationalism might serve short-term political goals. But it’s ultimately short-sighted and self-defeating.” WHO

COVID-19 has disrupted all forms of human mobility through the closing of national borders and halting of travel worldwide. Preliminary estimates suggest that the pandemic may have slowed the growth in the stock of international migrants by around two million by mid- 2020, 27 per cent less than the growth expected since mid-2019, according to a report by the United Nations released today. UNIFEED

“The work of the General Assembly has helped to boost global health, literacy, and living standards, and to promote human rights and gender equality,” the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a virtual event marking the 75th anniversary of the world body. UNIFEED /FILE

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said reports of new variants of the COVID-19 virus in South Africa and the United Kingdom, are “natural and expected,” adding that “there is no evidence so far that it is more likely to cause severe disease or mortality.” WHO