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United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres; along with Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness; and Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau briefed reporters following the High-Level Event on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond. UNIFEED

Addressing a virtual meeting of the Africa Dialogue Series (ADS), Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, the COVID-19 pandemic “is affecting capacity to support peace and security efforts in Africa,” and stressed that “failure to respond quickly and adequately could jeopardize progress towards Silencing the Guns by 2020 and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Africa’s Agenda 2063.” UNIFEED

Speaking at the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) informal briefing entitled “Joining Forces: Effective Policy Solutions for Covid-19 Response,” the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, said that, now more than ever, people and countries everywhere rely on the United Nations (UN) to rise to the challenges of this global pandemic. UNIFEED

Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, launched “Rise for All”, a new initiative that brings together women leaders to mobilize support for the UN Recovery Trust Fund and the UN roadmap for social and economic recovery, as laid out in the new United Nations Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19. UNIFEED

UN chief António Guterres said “people and their rights must be front and centre” in the world’s COVID-19 response and recovery, describing the pandemic as the “biggest international crisis in generations.” UNIFEED

UN chief Antonio Guterres said his global ceasefire appeal is resonating across the world but noted that there is “huge distance between declarations and deeds” and stressed that to “silence the guns, we must raise the voices for peace.” UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched on Tuesday a new plan to counter the potentially devastating socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, calling for a “shared responsibility and global solidarity in response to the impacts of COVID-19.” UNIFEED

After meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres, Colombian President Iván Duque told reporters that Colombia and the United Nations have finalized negotiations on a framework working agreement for the period 2020 – 2023, based on “three central axes; peace with legality, attention to migrant populations, and the implementation in our country of the Sustainable Development Goals.” UNIFEED

Speaking at the 64th Commission on the Status of Women, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said “centuries of discrimination, deep-rooted patriarchy and misogyny have created a yawning gender power gap in our economies, our political systems and our corporations. This simply has to change.” UNIFEED

In Maharashtra, India, one million rural women have gained access to financial services, and technical and business training, which gave them independence and improved status in their communities. IFAD