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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the devastating Israeli airstrikes that killed World Central Kitchen personnel bring the number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196, is "unconscionable.” He reiterated that the Security Council resolution “must be implemented without delay.” UNIFEED

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water, highlighted that tensions over water are exacerbating conflicts worldwide. UNIFEED

US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said, “All 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly have spoken in one voice and together chosen to govern artificial intelligence, rather than let it govern us.” UNIFEED

In Papua New Guinea, home to the world's third-largest rainforest, Indigenous Peoples are custodians of almost all the forested land. Now, they are being equipped with ground-breaking technology. These tools, which run on tablets or smartphones, will allow them to demarcate their forest and monitor the area to make sure that it stays healthy and intact from incursions. FAO

United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that Artificial intelligence has “enormous potential to shape our economies, society, and the world for the better,” and that “we must ensure these benefits extend across the globe to countries at all levels of development.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “The Commission on the Status of Women is a catalyst for the transformation we need,” adding that at this difficult and divided moment, let’s end poverty in all dimensions by “investing in women and girls, betting on women and girls, and pushing for peace and dignity for women and girls everywhere.” UNIFEED

On Women’s Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN System-Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan to place women and girls at the center of global initiatives. UNIFEED

Climate change disproportionately impacts women farmers in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing billions of dollars of losses among female-headed farming households and widening the income gap among the rural poor, reveals a groundbreaking Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report. FAO

The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly started at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. UNEP

The 13th World Trade Organization’s 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) opened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi as the Chairperson of the conference. WTO