Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, speaks at the United Nations Security Council meeting on women and peace and security.
Andrea Carstensen, Representative of the Global Youth Caucus on SDG16 of the Major Group for Children and Youth, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace on the theme “Cultivating and nurturing the culture of peace for present and future generations”
A view of visitors at the peace and security exhibit during a guided tour of the United Nations Headquarters.
Abdullah Ali Fadhel Al-Saadi, Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen).
The UN’s most recent figures for Malawi show that over 15% of children under the age of 18 are orphans, partly because of the high rate of HIV and Aids-related deaths in the country. Currently, a group called Zoe Foundation is working to provide these at-risk children a future.
Director of Coordination of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefs UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Syria).
Exercises are conducted in the South China Sea by China, Russia, the US, and the Philippines.Taiwan says it will commit to bolstering own defenses. Thailand authorities investigate hotel poisoning deaths. Rare whale washes ashore in New Zealand.
Representative of the United States to the United Nations, briefs reporters on the humanitarian situation in Sudan.
Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security, on the theme “Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order”