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A team of UN peacekeepers deployed to South Sudan along with members of the Ceasefire Transitional Security Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (CTSMVM) have visited Ras-Olso, a remote community in the Western Equatoria region of the country to investigate the security situation and hear first-hand from the community facing constant attacks and harassment by armed groups. UNMISS

The spokesperson for the Office of the UN high Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said the Office is in the process of analysing the contents of the new National Security Law adopted this week by the National People’s Congress of China, “looking at this very carefully in terms of its compliance with the international human rights obligations” applicable to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). UNTV CH

World is off track to achieve the three zeros of the envisioned global HIV response (zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero discrimination) by 2030, according to a new report released by UNAIDS. UNAIDS

Addressing its first open debate on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on global peace and security, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council that the consequences can be felt in countries traditionally seen as “stable,” but stressed that it’s impacts “are particularly apparent in countries already experiencing conflict or emerging from it.” UNIFEED

A WHO official said the Organization was “encouraged” by the progress made on candidate COVID-19 vaccines and was “looking forward” to clinical trial results as five vaccines move into phase two of research and one moved to phase three. WHO

Echoing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres call for a worldwide ceasefire to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding “a general and immediate cessation of hostilities in all situations, on its agenda.” UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus told reporters that “more than 10.3 million cases of COVID-19 have now been reported to WHO, and more than 506,000 deaths,” with 60 percent of those cases reported in the past month. WHO

"Unless we act now, we could face years of depressed and disrupted economic growth,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned today launching a series of roundtable discussions in a bid to build a multilateral response and recovery plan to the unprecedented global development emergency caused by COVID-19 pandemic. UNIFEED

The number of working hours lost across the world in the first half of 2020 was significantly worse than previously estimated, while the highly uncertain recovery in the second half of the year will not be enough to go back to pre-pandemic levels, even in the best scenario, and risks seeing continuing large-scale job losses, warns the International Labour Organization (ILO). ILO

Paying tribute to UN personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2019, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “the blue flag of the United Nations symbolizes hope. That hope is part of the legacy of the colleagues we mourn today. They paid the ultimate sacrifice so that others could look forward to better days.” UNIFEED