In Yemen, UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Indrika Ratwatt has allocated $10 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to respond to rapidly scale up emergency food and critical health, water and sanitation services. More than 18 million people, over half of the population, are facing acute food insecurity.
The Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund approved $2.4 million for a new programme to reduce insecurity across four regions of Mali, where communities and local institutions have come under sustained pressure and insecurity and violence. It aims to strengthen collaboration among local authorities, security forces and traditional leaders
As experts warned that road traffic crashes have become a silent pandemic and called on the international community to build transport systems that put people first, a text in which Governments around the world committed to improve road safety was put to a vote in the General Assembly today.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, in Shanghai today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development, in Paris today:
In Myanmar, hostilities in Pokkoku, in Magway Region, since 2 July have triggered the displacement of over 20,000 people, according to preliminary figures. Over 16 million people need humanitarian assistance, but needs still outpace resources. Of the $890 million required for 2026, $387 million has been received to date.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the opening of the First Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance, in Geneva today:
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the latest violence between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which resulted in civilian casualties. He calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and the protection of civilians.
United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Chaloka Beyani commended Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly for its unanimous adoption of a motion to declare Congress a space free of hate speech, harassment, discrimination and intolerance. The declaration will serve as “a model of what legislators can and must do, Ms. Beyani said.
