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Truly Sustainable Development for Persons with Disabilities Means Ensuring Equal Rights, Ending Discrimination, Secretary-General Tells Commemorative Event

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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the commemorative event to observe the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, today:

UN Department of Global Communications Hosts ‘Knowledge, History and Power: In Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, Laura Trevelyan’, 6 December

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“Knowledge, History and Power” will be the focus of a conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and Laura Trevelyan, former BBC correspondent, to be held during the lunchtime at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, 6 December, from 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Conference Room 1.

Drastic Emissions Cuts, Transition to Renewable Energy Crucial as ‘Humanity’s Fate Hangs in the Balance’, Secretary-General Tells World Climate Action Summit

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Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the World Climate Action Summit, Twenty-eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, today:

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

In Gaza, the humanitarian pause has enabled a major increase in aid delivery, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports. UN agencies have sent lifesaving medicines and surgical supplies to two hospitals in Gaza City — Al Ahli and Al Sahaba — and enough fuel to operate generators for about seven days.

Amid Climate Collapse, Leaders Must Act Further, Faster to Limit Global Temperature Rise, Secretary-General Says at World Meteorological Organization Report Launch

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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) “State of the Global Climate 2023” report launch, in Dubai today: