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Daily Press Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General
Tomorrow, the Secretary-General will bring together the heads of the UN system organizations in a virtual meeting of the Chief Executives Board.
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by reports of violence against schools, students and teachers in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon. This took place earlier this week on the 3rd and 4th of November.
The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, says this week we have lost six humanitarian workers in targeted violent attacks in Somalia, in two separate incidents in South Sudan, and in Northwest Syria.
Mark Cutts, the Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, said he was deeply concerned by the sharp escalation in violence in Syria’s northwest Idlib Governorate yesterday, in which close to three million women, children and men, over half of whom are internally displaced, remain caught in the crossfire.
In the West Bank, the acting Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Yvonne Helle, said that 73 people – more than half of whom were children – were displaced when Israeli authorities demolished their homes earlier this week in the community of Humsa Al Baqi’a.
This morning, the Security Council is holding an open meeting by video conference on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The UN Sustainable Development Group will meet virtually today to assess preliminary results and challenges of working jointly to support 162 countries and territories overcome and recover better from the pandemic.
The World Health Organization warned today that the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to key health services in Africa, including with births, vaccinations and malaria treatment.
The virtual high-level event of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization formally launched the Food Coalition. This is a voluntary multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral alliance set up to support innovative initiatives to ensure global food access, increase the resilience of agri-food systems and put them on a more sustainable course.
FAO says today that global food prices continued to rise for the fifth consecutive month in October.
Today is World Tsunami Awareness Day and this year’s theme is Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance.
Tomorrow, the spokesman will be joined by Luis Carrilho, the UN Police Adviser. He will be joined virtually by Issoufou Yacouba, the Police Commissioner for the UN Peacekeeping force in Mali, as well as the Senior Police Adviser of the UN Interim Security Force in Abyei, Mary Gahonzire. They will brief reporters on UN Police Week.
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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General
