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

At a news conference to open the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Thursday urged world leaders to take advantage of a strengthened global recovery to tackle deficits and structural reforms to promote inclusive and sustainable growth. IMF

During her visit to South Sudan, a high-ranking United Nations official said she is “particularly appalled by the violence this conflict has brought against women and girls in South Sudan.” UNMISS

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

The United Nations (UN) today held the Annual Memorial Service to honour UN personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty between July 2016 and the end of last year. UNIFEED

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

UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu told the Security Council that samples collected by the UN chemical watchdog (OPCW) team “confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used on 4 March in Salisbury.” UNIFEED

During a press conference in Washington today, IMF Director of Fiscal Affairs Department Vitor Gaspar said, “In the Fiscal Monitor, we urge policymakers to avoid pro-cyclical policy actions that provide unnecessary stimulus when economic activity is already pacing up. Instead, most countries should deliver on their fiscal plans and put deficits and debt firmly on a downward path. As I said, there is no room for complacency.” IMF

Ambassador Carl Skau of Sweden said the upcoming retreat at Backakra, the renovated private estate of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold takes place “at a very difficult moment for the life of the Security Council,” which “calls for new thinking and for new approaches.” UNIFEED

During a press conference in Washington on the Global Financial Stability Report, IMF Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, Tobias Adrian, told reporters “the economic recovery has remained resilient despite market volatility. But investors and policymakers should not take too much comfort from today’s relatively easy financial conditions.” IMF