Category: MIL-OSI

Source: United Nations (video statements)

Informal comments to the media by António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, on the situation in the Middle East and his forthcoming travel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0f6f9YI37w

Source: United Nations (video statements)

Syria has made ‘remarkable progress’ on transitional justice just one year after the fall of the Assad regime. But despite the immense willingness that is in place, deep-rooted stigma continues to prevent many survivors of conflict-related sexual violence from coming forward.
Sofia Candeias, from the UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict, stresses that Syria needs the support of the international community to rebuild the architecture of the rule of law, and see a new Syria emerge.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VoX_zki7Spo

Source: United Nations (video statements)

Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said technological innovations “have enormous potential to accelerate progress” on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) program of action, as “they are making it easier to analyse population data, treat illness, strengthen advocacy and widen access to education.”

Addressing the plenary of the fifty-ninth session of the UN Commission on Population and Development, Mohammed said, “technology has reshaped almost every part of human life, from smartphones to social media, from artificial intelligence to biotechnology” and population and sustainable development “have been transformed by that shift as well.”

She noted that the risks posed by digital technologies are also “significant and the gaps are widening.”

The Deputy Secretary-General said “in high income countries, 93 percent of people use the internet. In the least developed countries, that figure falls to 39 percent. Within countries, those gaps follow similar lines rich and poor, urban and rural, old and young.”

The deepest and most persistent divide, she pointed out, “is between women and men,” as “in low-income countries, only 21 percent of women are online” and “women make up just 1 in 4 tech workers.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P5ZdrYqhpc