Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:09:58
• Production Date: 4 March 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES; OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: ELECTIONS; GIRLS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; SECURITY COUNCIL
• Geographic Subject: GUINEA-BISSAU; NIGERIA; SOUTH SUDAN; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 2538223
• Parent Id: 2538223

Description

The Security Council met today on South Sudan.

Geir Pedersen, the Special Envoy for Syria, spoke to the foreign ministers of the League of Arab States in Cairo today, and he warned that the immediate danger in that country is one of more escalation, more war and more death and displacement – as we see in Idlib.

On the northeast of Nigeria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that a total of 7.9 million people – that’s more than one out of every two people in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states – need aid in 2020.

In a statement issued yesterday evening, the Secretary-General expressed concern at the institutional crisis in Guinea-Bissau provoked by the ongoing electoral dispute.

In a new report, the UN Children’s Fund today said that despite progress over the past two decades in the fight for gender equality, violence against women and girls is still not [only] common but accepted in many parts of the world.

Tomorrow, at 12:30 p.m., there will be a press conference by UN Women on the upcoming International Women’s Day.

For further details please see SOURCE below.
Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General