20 June 2020 Nearly 80 million women, children, and men around the world have been forced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced people.
Sexual violence in conflict is a brutal crime, mainly perpetrated against women and girls, but also affecting men and boys.
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert
COVID-19 does not care who we are, where we live, what we believe or about any other distinction. We need every ounce of solidarity to tackle it together. Yet the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.
Theme: “Journalism Without Fear or Favour”.
Journalists and media workers are crucial to helping us make informed decisions. As the world fights the COVID-19 pandemic, those decisions can make the difference between life and death.
22 April 2020 - I extend my warmest wishes as millions of Muslims around the world begin observing the holy month of Ramadan.
"Protect our children"
BY ANTÓNIO GUTERRES
16 April 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, we are seeing an alarming pattern.
New York, 14 April 2020
As the world fights the deadly COVID-19 pandemic – the most challenging crisis we have faced since the Second World War – we are also seeing another epidemic, a dangerous epidemic of misinformation.
11 April 2020
Today, I want to make a special appeal to religious leaders of all faiths to join forces to work for peace around the world and focus on our common battle to defeat COVID19.