The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Friday appointed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a second five-year term, beginning.

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Nigeria: UN Official Calls for Immediate Release of Abducted Schoolkids, with Unprecedented Level of Incidents Reported in Recent Months – 	Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

The UN has called for action after an increase in people fleeing conflict and persecution despite the COVID pandemic. While world leaders urged to step up efforts for peace, stability and cooperation.

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The impact of conflicts old and new, climate shocks and COVID-19, in addition to a lack of funding, have left millions more on the verge of famine than six months ago, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.

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First-ever Global Report on Protecting Young People in Civic Space Highlights Need for Stronger Global Protection Mechanisms – Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

UN chief calls for debt relief extension for middle-income countries amid COVID

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Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions, rising criminal gang violence and a resurgence of COVID-19, Haiti’s leaders must commit to good-faith dialogue aimed at ending a longstanding and damaging political impasse, the UN’s senior official in the country told the Security Council today.

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Political impasse in Haiti, amid rising humanitarian needs, ahead of crucial elections

Sexual violence in conflict “reverberates down generations” and threatens both human and international security, the UN chief said on Thursday in his message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Guterres: Bring crimes of sexual violence in conflict out of ‘the shadows’, punish perpetrators

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