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UNICEF/UNI10236/Estey Girls from an indigenous community read outdoors at Ban Pho Primary School in Bac Han District in remote Lao Cai Province, Viet Nam.         30 January 2020 Peace and Security In a briefing to the Security Council on Thursday, Secretary-General António Guterres underlined the value of cooperation between the UN and the 10-member regional bloc, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).  While recognizing the organization’s contributions to peace and security, the UN chief also highlighted the need to work together to counter potential threats, including the climate crisis.  “Given that four ASEAN Member States rank among the 10 countries in the world most affected by climate change, we look forward to strengthening our ties with ASEAN nations as they take urgent action to strengthen adaptation and build resilience to disasters,” he said.  Preventive diplomacy efforts  ASEAN was established i

Coding in Namibia: UN supports young women’s computing career dreams UN Namibia Namibian high school girls, who participated in the 'African Girls Can Code' programme, pay a visit to UN House in Windhoek to start their journey of putting their coding skills into action.         30 January 2020 Women Six young women from Namibia are on the path to a career in the field of information and communications technology (ICT), with the support of the  UN office  in the country.  They were among a group of 39 counterparts from across the region who participated in the  African Girls Can Code  camp held in Pretoria, South Africa, last April.  The coders were this week gifted with laptops during a short handover ceremony at UN House in the capital, Windhoek, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.  “If young girls and women do not have the training and access to ICTs they will be left behind”, said Rachel

Eskinder Debebe Ghassan Salamé of Lebanon, newly appointed Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in LibyaUN Photo/Eskinder Debebe         30 January 2020 Peace and Security The top UN official in Libya on Thursday expressed his “deep anger and disappointment” over intensifying conflict in Libya despite a high-level  summit  held in the German capital of Berlin earlier this month, that set out measures to de-escalate fighting and put the divided country back on a path towards peace. “There are unscrupulous actors inside and outside Libya who cynically nod and wink towards efforts to promote peace and piously affirm their support for the UN”, Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, told the Security Council. “Meanwhile, they continue to double down on a military solution, raising the frightening spectre of a full-scale conflict and further mis

UN Photo/Marco Dormino The capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, was extensively damaged by the January 2010 earthquake.         17 January 2020 Peace and Security More than 200,000 Haitians who perished in the devastating earthquake which struck the island nation ten years ago, were honoured in a solemn ceremony of remembrance at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, along with 102 staffers who died – the single greatest loss of life in the Organization’s history.  Haitians had been starting a new year with optimism,  recalled  UN Secretary-General  António Guterres  at the wreath-laying, but “in a few seconds, their hopes turned to dust.”  “I will never forget the shock and sadness across the world and throughout the United Nations as the scale of the tragedy became clear”, he added.  Although 12 January 2010, was one of the darkest days in its history, Haiti “drew on the courage and determination of its people and th

UN India/Yangerla Jamir The session on climate emergency at Jaipur Literature Festival. (L to R Ms. Renata Dessallien, resident coordinator of UN in India; Ms. Namita Waikar, managing editor of online journal PARI; Ms. Shubhangi Swarup, writer and filmmaker; Ms. Dia Mirza, Actress and UN Advocate for Sustainable Development.         29 January 2020 Climate Change Against the backdrop of India’s famed “pink city” of Jaipur, the world’s largest literature festival hosted the UN’s top representative in the country on Monday, who told audience members attending a special session on the climate emergency, that the Organization is working flat out to slow the pace of damaging climate change.  From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. It is estimated that over 60