To mark the seventh International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism on 21 August, the United Nations will organize a virtual high-level event titled “Voices for Peace: Victims of Terrorism as Peace Advocates and Educators”.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Humanitarian Day, observed today:
In Ukraine, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator there condemned an overnight attack in the Donetsk region, in the eastern part of the country, where a transit centre for displaced people was damaged. The site in Pokrovsk Town was sheltering people who had fled earlier hostilities.
The new Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations, Enrique Armando Román Morey, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
As the political, economic and security situation in Libya deteriorates, ordinary people live in fear of war erupting again, even as they prepare for local elections, the Organization’s senior official in the country reported to the Security Council today.
The new Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations, Erastus Ekitela Lokaale, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
In Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that repeated waves of displacement — combined with overcrowding, insecurity, crumbling infrastructure, active hostilities and limited services — is worsening the humanitarian situation there, which is already catastrophic.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed William Davis of the United States as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Washington, D.C.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks to the forty-third World Scout Conference Intergenerational Town Hall on Trends of the World, in Cairo today:
