General News

A disabilities campaigner has said that “healthy land and sports go hand in hand,” and that greater access to sports activities should be made available to people living with a disability.

Jitske Visser, who has represented the Netherlands in wheelchair basketball at five Summer Paralympic Games, winning four medals including two golds, was named as a Sport4Land Champion by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at a global meeting in Riyadh on Saturday.

• Multilateral diplomacy in spotlight ahead of UNGA77
• Afghanistan: UN repeats call for Taliban to allow girls back to high school
• Top rights expert urges States to provide ‘humane’ reception facilities

• Myanmar: OHCHR denounces arrest of former UK ambassador
• Food prices dip for fifth month in a row in August – FAO
• Pakistan floods: UNICEF warns many more children may die

• UN chief welcomes opening of Black Sea control centre for Ukraine exports
• Philippines Luzon earthquake: Aid teams ‘ready to reach’ victims
• Top rights expert spotlights ‘double standard’ towards Ukraine refugees in Poland, Belarus

• 'Moment for Nature' debate addresses environmental threats
•  Voluntary repatriation of Congolese refugees from Angola resumes
• $15 million allocated to fight hunger in Central African Republic

• World population to reach 8 billion
• Children caught in conflict
• UN chief calls for dialogue in Sri Lanka

UN Secretary-General's full remarks at the Security Council Meeting on Ukraine, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on Tuesday, 5 April 2022. Full text here. 

UN Secretary-General's full remarks at press encounter on war in Ukraine, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on Monday, 28 March 2022. Full text here. 

UN Secretary-General's briefs the press on the war in Ukraine, at UN Headquarters in New York, on 22 March 2022.

UN Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on Afghanistan, on Wednesday, 26 January 2022.