Daily Press Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

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

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:22:02
• Production Date: 1 December 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE - COVID 19; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; INTERNET; MIGRATION
• Geographic Subject: BRAZIL; CENTRAL AMERICA; ETHIOPIA; PALESTINE; RWANDA; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 2586916
• Parent Id: 2586916

Description

Tomorrow, at 8:45 a.m., the Secretary-General will be speaking at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum on the state of our planet.

This afternoon, the Secretary-General spoke via a pre-recorded video message to the launch event for his report on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

On Ethiopia, our humanitarian colleagues continue to call on all parties to the conflict in Tigray to allow unconditional, free and safe humanitarian access to the region.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) also appealed to Ethiopia’s federal Government for urgent access to reach Eritrean refugees in Tigray.

We confirmed in a note last night that the Secretary-General had spoken by telephone with President-elect Joseph R. Biden to extend his personal congratulations to the President-elect. 

The Secretary-General spoke at today’s session to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Yesterday afternoon the Secretary-General spoke at the virtual Summit of Heads of State of the Central American Integration System (SICA).

Earlier today, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs presented the 2021 Global Humanitarian Overview.

In Brazil, the Resident Coordinator, Niky Fabiancic, is leading the UN team’s support to authorities on the health and socioeconomic response to the pandemic.

A report released today by the UN Children’s Fund and the International Telecommunications Union shows that two thirds of the world’s school-age children do not have an internet connection in their homes. This represents 1.3 billion children aged 3 to 17 years old.

Our colleagues from the UN Development Coordination Office tell us that François Batalingaya of Rwanda is taking up his post as Resident Coordinator in the Comoros today.

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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General