Responding to questions, Guterres said it was true that the COVID-19 crisis is diverting attention from many other issues. He said the world needed to be able to respond to the crisis while also addressing other major concerns
A subway rider wears a mask and gloves in an otherwise empty subway car during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in New York City
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres checks his notes ahead of holding a virtual press briefing on the ongoing global Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on 19 March 2020 at United Nations, New York
Hillary Clinton former United States Secretary of State, deliveres the keynote address at the meeting of the Group of Friends of Women in Afghanistan
The SHGs were created by the Tejaswini Rural Women’s Empowerment Programme, an initiative of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Maharashtra’s Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal (MAVIM).
Grammy Award-winning singer and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Angélique Kidjo performs at an event marking International Women’s Day (8 March)
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation concerning Iraq
Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said, “after two years of the Astana understandings, and after a year and a half of the Sochi agreements, the Turkish regime turned the observation posts on Syrian territory, which were supposed to control the activities of terrorists, preventing terrorists from committing those terrorists acts and thereby repelling any aggression on the positions of the Syrian Arab Army and the Russian forces, so, those observation posts were turned into operations rooms and ways to support terrorist organizations.”
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed signs a book of condolences on the passing of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, former President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Chinese authorities now maintain a tight grip on Tibet and on Tibetan-populated regions of western Chinese provinces, restricting Tibetans’ political activities and peaceful expression of cultural and religious identities, and subjecting Tibetans to imprisonment, torture, and extrajudicial killings