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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Abdullahi Mire – a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children in Kenya – will be the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s 2023 global laureate. UNHCR

Civilians accounted for 85 percent of casualties by landmine and explosive remnants of war in 2022, half of them were children, according to a UN-backed civil society report released today. UNTV CH

1 in 3 children – or 739 million worldwide – already live in areas exposed to high or very high water scarcity, with climate change threatening to make this worse, according to a new UNICEF report. UNICEF

Briefing reporters on the situation in Gaza, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “The way forward is clear. A humanitarian ceasefire. Now. All parties respecting all their obligations under international humanitarian law. Now.” UNIFEED

As the crisis in the Palestinian enclave continues to worsen amid intense Israeli bombardments and an ongoing ground operation, UN humanitarians reiterated on Friday their call for a humanitarian pause to be able to deliver urgently needed relief items and to allow for severely wounded people to get out of the Gaza Strip. UNTV CH

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al Furhan Al-Saud, in his address to the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, offered his country’s vision on the various conflicts affecting the region. UNIFEED

The first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation will be hosted in Rome by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 25 to 27 September 2023. FAO

In his address to the General Assembly’s High-level Debate, Rashad Mohammed Al-Alimi, President of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen, said that peace in his country "remains elusive" despite the regional and international momentum to achieve peace. UNIFEED

At the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), two-thirds of child-related indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report. UNICEF

A UN spokesperson said that in a joint statement on Yemen’s humanitarian situation and funding gap, 60 UN agencies and non-governmental organizations “called for unhindered access to all communities in Yemen in order to identify their needs.” UNIFEED