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The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, told the General Assembly, “Despite contributing less than 0.47 per cent of global emissions, Bangladesh is one of the most climatically-vulnerable countries in the world.” UNIFEED

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged world leaders to include women on peacekeeping forces, adding “they're better able to build trust with communities they are protecting." UNIFEED

Addressing the participants of a high-level event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UN LGBTI Core Group, Hanke Bruins Slot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs said, “in far too many places around the world we are seeing a targeted hate campaign against LGBTIQ people simply for being who they are and loving who they love.” UNIFEED

Commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the death of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, UN chief Antonio Guterres said, "We have the shared responsibility to pursue the truth." UNIFEED

Marking the International Day of Peace, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Peace is a job that belongs to each and every one of us.” UNIFEED

The United Nations marked the 20th anniversary of the deadly attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad. Since 2009, every 19 August has been designated World Humanitarian Day. UNIFEED

Briefing the Security Council on the human rights situation in the DPRK, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that information collected by his Office "indicates increasing repression of the rights to freedoms of expression, privacy and movement; the persistence of widespread forced labour practices; and a worsening situation for economic and social rights, due to the closure of markets and other forms of income generation.” OHCHR

Over fifty countries called on all Member States to join in raising awareness of the links between human rights situations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and international peace and security, and to “hold the DPRK government accountable for its actions and fully implement Security Council resolutions.” UNIFEED

A group of Member States from the Security Council, Albania, France, Japan, Malta, United Kingdom and United States, called on Russia to implement fully its obligations and withdraw its troops from Georgia. UNIFEED

During an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a UN top official said, "Human trafficking is a crime that hides not just in the shadows but in plain sight." UNIFEED