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Daily Wrap 22 September 2022

Redouble efforts to end 'senseless' war in Ukraine, UN chief tells Foreign Ministers With the war in Ukraine showing no signs of letting up, countries must increase efforts to prevent further escalation and end the fighting, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told Foreign Ministers meeting in the Security Council on Thursday.  Read more Peace and Security Barbados Prime Minister Mottley calls for overhaul of unfair, outdated global finance system Mia Amor Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, urged world leaders to "use the power of the pen" and impose natural disaster and pandemic clauses in developing countries' debt, as well as remove the current barriers to accessing financial assistance from multilateral development banks. Read more UN Affairs South Sudan: Vice-President highlights commitments and challenges to peace Warring parties in South Sudan are committed to implementing a peace deal that has improved security in the country, Vice-President Hussein Abdelbagi Akol Agany told the UN General Assembly on Thursday.  Read more UN Affairs Sudan committed to achieve national reconciliation, General Assembly hears Abdel-Fattah Al Burhan Abdelrahman Al-Burhan, the President of the Transitional Government of Sudan, called for more multilateral action to find sustainable solutions to global challenges and to reduce terrible repercussions for people worldwide, particularly in countries affected by conflict and in the least developed countries. Read more UN Affairs Israeli Prime Minister Lapid backs two-State solution Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday said a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was "the right thing" for Israel, but he cautioned that a future Palestinian state must not be "another terror base". Read more UN Affairs Somalia committed to tackling twin threats of looming famine and terrorism, President tells UN Assembly Despite efforts to move past decades of drought and conflict, Somalia is facing some of the most complex crises in the world, its President said today at the UN General Assembly, urging international partners to help the nation avert a looming famine and defeat the scourge of terrorism. Read more UN Affairs Leadership Council marks 'new era' for Yemen, but country remains wary of terrorist threat President Rashad Mohammed Al-Alimi said on Thursday that with the formation in early April of the Presidential Leadership Council as the legitimate representative of the Yemeni people, his country had entered a new era in based on partnership and national consensus. Read more UN Affairs Ethiopia: Civilians again mired in intractable and deadly war, Human Rights Council hears Ethiopia's people are once again "mired…in the intractable and deadly consequences" of conflict between Government troops and forces loyal to Tigrayan separatist fighters, who are all likely responsible for war crimes, top rights investigators said on Thursday. Read more Human Rights UN experts strongly condemn death of Mahsa Amini, 'victim of Iran's sustained repression' UN independent human rights experts on Thursday strongly condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody following her arrest for allegedly failing to comply with Iran's strict rules on women's dress, by wearing what authorities said was "an improper hijab". Read more Human Rights Sahel security crisis 'poses a global threat', Guterres warns Rising insecurity, including the proliferation of terrorist and other non-State armed groups, coupled with political instability, is creating a crisis in the Sahel that poses a "global threat", the UN chief warned Thursday's high level meeting on the vast African region, which took place behind closed doors at UN Headquarters in New York. Read more Peace and Security Least developed countries impacted by 'range of interlinked crises' – Assembly President The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine war and rising costs are 'severely and disproportionately affecting' Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the President of the UN General Assembly told their annual ministerial meeting on Thursday. Read more Climate and Environment Ukraine war-induced crisis affecting women and girls disproportionately: UN report A new UN report reveals how the Ukraine war and its global impacts on food, energy, and finance are affecting women and girls disproportionately, both inside the country and around the world. Read more Women Seven Ebola cases, one death confirmed in Uganda, WHO scales up response The UN health agency, WHO, announced on Wednesday that it is speeding up efforts to respond to a fresh outbreak of the deadly, infectious Ebola disease in Uganda. Read more Health Cambodia: UN-backed tribunal ends with conviction upheld for last living Khmer Rouge leader The final Khmer Rouge leader to be prosecuted under a UN-backed special tribunal in Cambodia, has had his 2018 conviction upheld for genocide and crimes against humanity, committed during the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge during the late 1970s, during which nearly a quarter of the country's population was killed. Read more Law and Crime Prevention Renewable energy jobs rise by 700,000 in a year, to nearly 13 million Worldwide employment in the renewable energy sector reached 12.7 million last year, a jump of 700,000 new jobs in just 12 months, despite the lingering effects of COVID-19 and the growing energy crisis, according to a new report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in collaboration with the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO). Read more Climate and Environment

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