NEWS

After more than 160 world governments unanimously adopted a historic global framework to manage international migration in a safer and more dignified way, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for International Migration, Louise Arbour, said that “rather than ignore the impetus of some to relocate, or worse, to attempt to crush it at unconscionable cost, we are now committed to safer and fairer ways of managing borders.” UN VIDEO

A UN spokesperson said the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has confirmed the existence of a second tunnel in the southern part of the country adding that “calm and stability along the Blue Line must be preserved.” UNIFEED

Congolese refugees and their hosts in Zambia’s Mantapala settlement are sharing services as part of a new inclusive approach in the country. The new school and clinic in the settlement, which is supported by UNHCR and various partners are open to everyone. UNHCR

Senior officials from UN Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding are visiting Mali to take stock of progress made in the implementation of the peace agreement and identify new pathways for sustainable peace. MINUSMA

Some 5.6 million Syrians need help outside the war-torn country and one million of them are children, UN agencies and partners said on Tuesday, in an appeal for $5.5 billion. UNTV CH

In Marrakech, the heads of different UN bodies gathered to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which was described as a living document and an inspiration for the text of the Global Compact for Migration. UN VIDEO

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, told reporters that a quarter of a million people in Yemen are now in phase 5 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), “at the catastrophe level.” UNIFEED

Heads of states and delegates from 164 countries, joined by representatives of civil society and the private sector, have adopted a cooperative framework to make international migration safer, more dignified for millions of migrants, and more economically beneficial for countries. UN VIDEO

Children now account for more than one third of the Ebola cases in affected regions of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and one in ten Ebola cases is under five-years-old, the UN Children's Fund said today. UNICEF

In South Sudan’s Unity region, getting food can be an immense challenge for women. Besides walking long distances, the danger of sexual violence lurks in the bushes that throng the roads they must walk to get to food distribution points, as seen in the recent allegations that shocked the world. Here is a look at what happens at food distribution points, as women continue to receive much needed food rations. UNMISS