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

United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths has allocated $3 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to urgently respond to the arrival of Sudanese refugees and others in Chad. In Khartoum, the World Health Organization reports that over 60 per cent of health facilities are closed.

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Delegates Call for Greater Multilingualism across United Nations Digital Platforms, Communications Products, on Day Three of Information Committee’s Annual Session

Concerned by a tidal wave of pressing global challenges from the spike in misinformation and disinformation to widening digital gaps, delegates today underscored the essentiality of multilingualism while outlining several concrete recommendations for the United Nations Department of Global Communications, as the Committee on Information concluded the general debate of its forty-fifth session.

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Delegates Call for Greater Linguistic Diversity, Efforts to Combat Misinformation, Disinformation, as Committee on Information Continues Annual Session

Emphasizing the importance of trustworthy, verifiable information in a world beset with crises and in an environment rife with inaccurate reports, delegates today commended an ongoing initiative by the Department of Global Communications to draft a code of conduct to promote integrity in public information, while urging it to mainstream multilingualism and redouble efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation.

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Amid Multiple International Crises, Department of Global Communications Conveying Facts, Offering Hope, Says Under-Secretary-General, as Committee on Information Opens Session

Amid a plethora of global, overlapping crises on the United Nations agenda, the Department of Global Communications remains guided by a systematic, data‑driven approach focused on audiences and impact as it communicates facts, captures imaginations and conveys hope, its top official told the Committee on Information during the opening of the forty-fifth session today.