#UN Media Alert for 12 April 2024: bit.ly/UNMediaAlert

#Myanmar 's middle class has shrunk by 50% over the past 3 years, coupled with a surge in poverty, amidst widespread insecurity & conflict, as well as a dire economic crisis.
 
Our new report calls on all stakeholders - inside & outside Myanmar - to act: go.undp.org/6KcJ

Media Alert for Wednesday, 10 April 2024:
The United Nations Headquarters in New York will be CLOSED in observance of an official international holiday.

Our March 2024 update on the protection of civilians, released today, shows an increase in civilian casualties, including among children, over the past month: 👉 ukraine.un.org/en/265434-prot…

Financing challenges are at the heart of the sustainable development crisis.

The 2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report will offer solutions to scale up investments in the #GlobalGoals .

Follow launch at 12:30 pm EDT today➡️ webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1t/k… #FinancingOurFuture

NOW: #UNSC briefing on #Colombia by SRSG & head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia Carlos Ruiz Massieu

📌 Quarterly report of the 🇺🇳 Secretary-General on the Mission's work from Dec 2023 to March 2024 bit.ly/PeewD9

LIVE 📽 bit.ly/3vKwxmz Misión de la ONU en Colombia

The Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index rises in March (up by 1.1%) for the first time in seven months.

Higher international quotations for vegetable oils, dairy & meat more than offset lower quotations for cereals & sugar.

World cereal output seen up in 2023/24.
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Aid lifeline by World Food Programme reaches Sudan’s Darfur in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’

news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

#BREAKING : “You’re making the ground shake!” UN Security Council hears as mid-morning #earthquake interrupts briefing on the situation in the Middle East.

Media representatives can apply for accreditation to #SIDS4 at indico.un.org/UNHQ/#media

🆕 #UN reports in today’s Daily List of Documents:

🔹 Interim report of the Panel of Experts on #Haiti (Nov 2023-Feb 2024)
🔹 Road map for completion of the mandate of UNITAD

👉And more: bit.ly/PeewD9

Malta at the UN 🇲🇹🇺🇳

#Happeningnow : #UNSC briefing on Children and Armed Conflict by Children and Armed Conflict 📍 #ACTtoProtect SRSG Virginia Gamba followed by @unicef Dep. Exec. Director for Humanitarian Action & Supply Operations Ted Chaiban

Follow live 📺 bit.ly/3U1sBai Malta at the UN 🇲🇹🇺🇳 #CAAC

🔵 The #UNGA adopted this morning draft res L.54 on The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict: breaking the link btwn the illicit transaction of rough diamonds & #armedconflict as a contribution to prevention & settlement of conflicts

Full text🔗 bit.ly/PeewD9

UN GA President

#Happeningnow : #UNSC briefing by UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs ASG for Middle East, Asia & the Pacific Khaled Khiari on Threats to Int’l #PeaceAndSecurity

LIVE 📽️ bit.ly/3xkqxSd Malta at the UN 🇲🇹🇺🇳

NEWS: The cost of damages to critical infrastructure incurred in #Gaza reached $18.5 billion, as of Jan 2024, according to the new Interim Damage Assessment report by the United Nations & World Bank.

Report: wrld.bg/AW5B50R6JuW

#BREAKING
The UN is planning an assessment mission to Al-Shifa Hospital as Israel ends its two-week-long siege that left at least 21 patients dead while it continues to block aid into hunger-stricken northern Gaza.

More here ⤵️
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🔵 Today at 1 pm EST: Press briefing by Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, Permanent Representative of Malta at the UN 🇲🇹🇺🇳 & 🇺🇳 Security Council President for April, to introduce the Council’s monthly provisional programme of work 🔗 bit.ly/2GwYK4d

LIVE 📽️ webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k…

The #UN #MALU #MediaAlert for Friday, 29 March & Monday, 1 April 2024 is available: bit.ly/UNMediaAlert

We are appealing for US$1.4 billion to support South Sudanese refugees and their host communities in the DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda.

Find out more: bit.ly/4cCKnIg

2024 Shireen Abu Akleh Training Programme for Palestinian Broadcaster and Journalists DEADLINE EXTENDED until 1 May 2024
Palestinian journalists can apply by following these two simple steps:

REGISTER HERE: elearning.un.org
APPLY HERE: bit.ly/24PalTraining