In Monrovia, Liberia, 30 victims of sexual exploitation and abuse participated in a textile arts initiative facilitated by the Office of the Victims’ Rights Advocate.
Through creativity and shared expression, the initiative provided a supportive space to strengthen connection, confidence and hope while placing victims’ rights and dignity at the centre.
More info: https://www.un.org/preventing-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse/content/office-victims-rights-advocate
Transformation is not only about new strategies, systems or structures — it also begins with how we, as individuals, show up to change. In this interactive two-part session, we explore practical ways staff can create the conditions for greater presence, adaptability, trust and meaningful connection in everyday work.
Drawing on insights from Our Common Agenda, the Pact for the Future, UN80 and the Transformative Spaces initiative, the conversation will connect system-level transformation with the individual: How can we work with uncertainty, shift mindsets, build resilience and make space for new possibilities? What small practices can help us navigate complexity and contribute differently to the teams and systems around us?
The session then moves from conversation into experience, as Rob Rea leads participants through breathwork and mindfulness, informed by psychological insights into stress, presence and self-regulation — offering a practical opportunity to experience the very capacities that support meaningful change.
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The Goals Lounge is an innovative platform at the UN Headquarters that brings together dialogue, partnerships and visibility to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Since its launch, it has enabled major announcements, mobilized significant financial commitments and supported high-impact initiatives across areas such as mental health, women’s leadership and digital transformation, while engaging diverse stakeholders and audiences worldwide.
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Mr. Kenny Morolong, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, to engage with uMgungundlovu District Development Model (DDM) stakeholders as part of his role as the DDM National Champion.
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Mr. Kenny Morolong, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, to engage with uMgungundlovu District Development Model (DDM) stakeholders as part of his role as the DDM National Champion.
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Mr. Kenny Morolong, engages with members of the media in his role as the District Development Model National Champion.
Next week, world leaders will gather at UNHQ in New York for the 81st General Assembly session. Together, they will seek solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
Learn about the high-level events set to take place: https://www.un.org/en/high-level-week-2026
A new report on remittances from the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Financing Facility (IFAD), shows that “approximately 220 million people, migrants and diaspora members, send money home supporting over 1.1 billion people.”
Presenting the Sending Money Home Report today (14 Sep) in New York, IFAD’s Remittances Manager Pedro De Vasconcelos, said the report “is about financial flows of extraordinary scale, but more importantly it is about families,” and added that “remittances are an expression of family responsibility, sacrifice, solidarity across borders.”
De Vasconcelos said, “migrants around the globe have sent 728 billion or 729 billion dollars in remittances to their families. And they’ve done that 300, 400 dollars at a time, 9 to 10 times a year.”
He said this was “definitely one of the world’s largest and most resilient source of household income,” and it “dwarfs many others like ODA and FDI many times combined.”
The IFAD official said, “savings, credit, Insurance, and investment “can turn remittances and family much more resilient,” and added that “the objective is to expand the choices available to families.”
The report calls for expanding financial access for migrants and their families and leveraging remittances as a driver of long-term economic opportunity rather than just a lifeline.
The report provides detailed data and analysis on remittances and migration trends over the past decade.
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Lords members will quiz the government on what assessment it has made of the government of China’s financial influence over UK water companies, in this question from Lord Blencathra.
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South Sudan’s hunger crisis is becoming increasingly catastrophic as violence, extreme weather and dwindling aid leave millions without enough food, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday. The impact of the ‘super El Niño’ is already immediately clear in South Sudan and the regional impact of extreme weather is also being felt in neighbouring Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, causing a bigger effect on food security in the entire area, WFP’s Assistant Executive Director for Programme Operations Matthew Hollingworth told reporters in Geneva.
