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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) project ‘Enhanced Resilience through Increased Economic Opportunities for Syrian Refugees and Host Communities’ successfully trained 900 people selected from among Syrians refugees and local host community members in Turkey. FAO

An indigenous human rights activist from Kenya told reporters today that her community is facing threats of violence and evictions from the Embobut forest in the country. UNIFEED

The Deputy-Director of the Food and Agricultural Organization said by safeguarding Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) the international community was also responding to “the world’s greatest challenges: climate change, depleting natural resources, urbanization, change in diets, and lifestyles.” FAO

At the opening of a forum on the future of work in the information age, Christine Lagarde, the IMF Managing Director compared the titans of the information age to those of the so-called “Gilded Age” of the late 19th century when railroads were the high-tech sector of the economy. IMF

Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said the idea of creating a mechanism to attribute responsibility for the use of chemical weapons in Syria “no longer makes any sense when Washington and its allies have already determined who is guilty and in essence are already acting as self-appointed executioners.” UNIFEED

The Seventeenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) began today at UN Headquarters in New York, with the special theme: “Indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and resources.” UNIFEED

Speaking at a Security Council meeting on sexual violence in conflict, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, said “gender-based discrimination is the invisible driver of most crimes of sexual violence,” adding that “the lower a woman’s status -- in terms of health, wealth and education -- the greater is her vulnerability and exposure to harm.” UNIFEED

Launching the United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund in New York today, the Special Envoy for Road Safety said “road traffic injuries are estimated to create 1.85 trillion dollars burden on global economy each year.” UNIFEED

World-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs said the total cost to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was so little that it would be “crazy if we don’t get this done” adding that such a failure would mean that the world had “a profound misdirection of resources to war or to the richest people.” UNIFEED

A top United Nations official in Somalia today said the impact of mines and remnants of war on lives in the country was “devastating.” UNSOM