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Data Indispensable in Tackling Complex Global Crises, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Climate Crisis Conference, Stressing ‘We Are at a Make-or-Break Moment’

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Data Indispensable in Tackling Complex Global Crises, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Climate Crisis Conference, Stressing ‘We Are at a Make-or-Break Moment’

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s video message to the Conference on Sustaining Peace Amidst the Climate Crisis: The Role of Data Science, Technology and Innovation, in Berlin, today:

Delegates Urge Agreement to Break Impasse on Cross-Cutting Issues, Emphasize Need for Adequate Peacekeeping Funding, as Fifth Committee Begins Resumed Session

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Delegates Urge Agreement to Break Impasse on Cross-Cutting Issues, Emphasize Need for Adequate Peacekeeping Funding, as Fifth Committee Begins Resumed Session

Delegates of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) urged each other today to disrupt the five-year deadlock over the crucial issues that cut across all operations — including sexual exploitation and abuse, the safety of peacekeepers and environmental safeguards. At the opening day of a resumed session dedicated to its global peacekeeping operations, Member States also emphasized the need to adequately finance the 11 peacekeeping missions, which now have a proposed budget of $6.5 billion, and resolve the Organization’s ongoing liquidity crisis.

Department of Global Communications Leading Robust Anti-Disinformation Efforts, Says Under-Secretary-General, as Committee on Information Session Opens

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Department of Global Communications Leading Robust Anti-Disinformation Efforts, Says Under-Secretary-General, as Committee on Information Session Opens

With core United Nations values under the greatest strain since the Organization’s founding, the Department of Global Communications is spearheading robust efforts to stem the tide of disinformation, counter attacks on human rights and tell the human stories on the front lines of conflict, the agency’s top official told the Committee on Information, as members opened their forty-fourth session today.

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

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

In Haiti, clashes resumed between gangs in Port-au-Prince, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.  In the commune of Croix-des-Bouquets, violence has displaced more than 1,200 people.  Dozens of houses were burned and a hospital in Marin was looted.

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