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UN Special Representative for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said any unlawful attempts to prolong or discredit the electoral results process in the country, “or worse: to alter the electoral results through for instance intimidation and pressure, can only backfire,” and called on all stakeholders “not to go down that path.” UNIFEED

UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Fernand de Varennes said there is a need for a “new deal” in the United States for “comprehensive national human rights legislation to prevent the increasing exclusion [and] discrimination, and also [to] attack hate speech and hate crimes” experienced by minorities. UNIFEED

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi and announced the US will join talks on a new global treaty to curb plastic pollution. UNEP

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Deborah Lyons told the Security Council, “our tension now must turn to the vastly greater number of Afghans who remain in the country, but face in the short term the most dire future,” adding that “we are on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe that is preventable.” UNIFEED

In a world characterized by nationalism, power competition, and inequality “we face need for global solutions, and global solutions must be multilateral,” the President of the Club de Madrid, Danilo Türk, told journalists in New York. UNIFEED

Women took the global stage today in Glasgow to show that climate change isn’t gender neutral, and that climate action needs to invest in women and girls. UNIFEED

As talks kick off in the second week of COP26, the plight of those nations on the front line of the climate crisis came into focus on Adaptation, Loss and Damage Day. UNIFEED

COP26 President Alok Sharma today said that despite not meeting the 2020 target of 100 billion, he expressed confidence in OECD analyses which predicted the target would be met in 2022 and 2023, and “over the five-year period from 2021-2025, we will likely be above 500 billion dollars in aggregate.” UNIFEED

In a historic declaration at COP26, global leaders including Xi Jinping, Joe Biden and Jair Bolsonaro signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, committing countries to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade as part of a multibillion-dollar package to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. UNIFEED

Three United Nations organisations are taking the lead in the response to climate change and will announce a new financing mechanism to fill the gaps in basic weather and climate data at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow which begins on 31 October. WMO