The World Food Programme (WFP) is working with the Government of Bangladesh to help more than 275,000 people affected by flooding in the country’s north-west. Some 5,000 households have received cash transfers as part of an innovative project which uses weather forecasts to trigger early action.
The Economic and Social Council today adopted decisions and resolutions on issues ranging from a rise in opioid overdose deaths to the social and economic consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian and Syrian lands, as it continued its 2019 Coordination and Management meetings today.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf, in Paris, today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gustavo Meza-Cuadra (Peru):
Tangible steps are urgently needed to reverse a negative trajectory in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs told the Security Council today, urging Member States to do all they can to create the circumstances for advancing peace.
On 8 July 2019, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo received a briefing by the Chair of the Committee on his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates from 28 April to 6 May 2019.
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations held its forty-seventh session from 17 to 19 July at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The following statement by Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:
The humanitarian situation in north-west and south-west Cameroon continues to deteriorate and 1.3 million people are now in need of assistance. The humanitarian response for the country is one the most critically underfunded in the world. Only 20 per cent of the $300 million requested has been received.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the closing of the 2019 High-Level Political Forum in New York, today:
