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“We need a more efficient and predictable, multilateral trading system that can withstand future economic shocks,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the meeting of the General Assembly on the middle income countries and called for a new debt mechanism that can provide “a menu of options, including debt swaps, buy-backs and cancellations.” UNIFEED

As he prepares to leave office on Friday, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said, “the last four years have been an unusually difficult time,” marked by protracted and emerging conflicts, the rising impacts of climate change, and the toll of diseases such as Ebola and now COVID-19, bringing the number of people requiring assistance and protection to unprecedented levels. UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths today (15 Jun) told the Security Council that Yemeni men, women and children “are suffering every day because people with power have missed the opportunities presented to them, to make the necessary concessions to end the war.” UNIFEED

The insecurity in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, an oil rich and agricultural potential area, ravaged by a six years civil war, then followed by a fragile peace, is currently undergoing a difficult transition from war to a sustainable, durable peace. UNMISS

Despite a massive 65 percent increase in migrants sending money home via mobile transfers in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of their rural family members struggle to access mobile banking services which could help lift them out of poverty. IFAD

“We need to recognize that we are at war with a virus,” the UN chief said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in UK, calling on "those who hold the power to come together and to organize an effective response to the COVID.” COURTESY OF UK GOVERNMENT

At the launch of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, the President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir said the COVID-19 pandemic has forced more children into labour and stressed that the world “must ensure that this generation is not lost.” UNIFEED

UN Global Compact Executive Director Sanda Ojiambo said, among all the leading G7 stock indexes, “none are aligned” with the Paris climate goals and stressed that science-based targets “are the near-term breakthrough mitigation measure” that the corporate sector needs to reach those goals. UNIFEED

The IMF has put forward a USD 50 billion proposal to end the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022, the IMF spokesperson said on Thursday, specifying that “the vast majority of that should come in grant form for the most vulnerable countries.” IMF

"As we strive for net zero emissions, we need all hands-on deck,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the opening of the sixth Mission Innovation Ministerial meeting on Wednesday. UNIFEED