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Ingrid Silva (ballerina and activist), Javier Muñoz (artist and activist ), Alessandro Armillotta (co-founder and CEO of AWorld) and Nanette Braun (UN Department of Global Communications) explore the connection between individuals’ actions and achieving the SDGs and raise awareness for the ActNow campaign and how it can be an important tool for both individuals and organizations to drive action. ActNow is the 51�Թ� campaign to inspire people to act for the Sustainable Development Goals. Close to 15 million concrete actions have been taken around the world.

Redesigning fashion storytelling: a playbook for change - SDG Media Zone at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly

"I think that we would agree that we’d call it an obligation - that the fashion industry has to create a new narrative, and that narrative really starts with rejecting the greenwashing that has become pretty rampant over the years.” Jenny Bailly,

— Global Goals (@GlobalGoalsUN)

Gitanas Nausėda, President of the Republic of Lithuania arrives at the UN GA hall to deliver his statement. He told assembled delegates that while Lithuania is resolutely committed to averting, minimizing and addressing climate change, an old-style colonial war is back in Europe. "The international community can no longer allow Russia to manipulate and abuse global rules. Its numerous crimes, such as the wholesale destruction of Ukrainian cities and towns, murder of thousands of innocent civilians and displacement of millions, bring disgrace upon the UN Security Council, where Russia still sits as a permanent member with the power of veto."

The Great Disconnect: When President Zelenskyy spoke today (and earlier this week) at the Security Council, Russia’s Permanent Representative pulled out his phone and started scrolling. It didn’t go unnoticed. Ukraine’s Permanent Representative returned the gesture just now as Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov got his turn.

President Zelenskyy spoke in the Security Council meeting today on Ukraine where he called for Russia to lose its right to veto

The five permanent members of the Security Council have a UN Charter-mandated special voting power known as the “right to veto”. It was agreed by the Charter drafters that if any one of the five permanent members cast a negative vote in the 15-member Council, the resolution or decision would not be approved.

All five permanent members have exercised the right of veto at one time or another. If a permanent member does not fully agree with a proposed resolution but does not wish to cast a veto, it may choose to abstain, thus allowing the resolution to be adopted if it obtains the required number of nine favourable votes.

What did the say about this earlier this year?

Women's representation at UN meetings needs major improvement. There have only been four female Presidents of the General Assembly in 78 years.

is the video of the first woman PGA, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, elected in 1953.

Denial, distortion, and falsehoods about well-established scientific climate facts are flooding social media feeds, online news platforms, broadcasts and ad spaces. Vanessa Nakate (Climate activist, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador), Paul Goodloe (Meteorologist, The Weather Channel) and Jake Dubbins (Co-Founder, Conscious Advertising Network, member of Climate Action Against Disinformation) discuss ways to combat climate mis- and disinformation.

“We need the voices of those on the frontlines of climate change to be platformed and amplified,” said Vanessa Nakate.

The Security Council has been holding a meeting on Ukraine and the issue of the veto came up.

The creators of the UN Charter conceived that five countries — China, France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) [succeeded in 1990 by Russia], United Kingdom and the United States — because of their key roles in creating the Organization, would continue to play key roles in the maintenance of international peace and security.

They were granted the special status of “Permanent Member States at the Security Council”. Now, they are known as the “P5”.

"History has proven conflict produces no winners," Ma Zhaoxu, China's Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs told the Security Council. "We support parties in maintaining communication with Russia and Ukraine on the Black Sea grain deal with a view to protecting global food security."

Speaking now at UNGA78 Yoon Suk Yeol, President of the Republic of Korea, said: "The nuclear and missile programs of North Korea pose a challenge to South Korea, the Indo-Pacific region and across the globe. It is paradoxical that a UN permanent member of the Security Council, entrusted as the ultimate guardian of world peace, would wage war by invading another sovereign nation and receive arms and ammunition from a regime that blatantly violates UN Security Council resolutions."

"Redesigning fashion storytelling: a playbook for change: Supermodel, actress and activist Amber Valletta address a panel discussing the sustainability of the fashion sector: "We must transform this sector. That means reducing production impacts but also shifting patterns of excess consumption and confronting a narrative that is focused so strongly on newness, immediacy and disposability."

Ms. Maria Ressa (right), CEO and President of Rappler, and the 2021 Nobel Peace Laureate, stated that we have more regulations for a toaster than for AI. It's time to implement safeguards, with education being the long-term solution and legislation in the short term.

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said at the Security Council meeting on Ukraine: "France will continue to act according to shared principles : right of self-defense, justice and dignity, and solidarity. France will continue to provide military and civilian aid to Ukraine, to support Ukrainian and international jurisdictions in their fight against impunity for the crimes committed by Russia and to step up support to countries most hard hit by the global food crisis caused by Russia."

Climate Ambition Summit: urges governments to ‘hit fast forward’
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UN launches road safety campaign

— UN News (@UN_News_Centre)

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov closes his speech at the Security Council meeting on Ukraine: "We're not talking today about subordinating ourselves to some kind of a rules based order, but we're talking about compliance with all of the obligations which we shouldered when signing the Charter in all of their integral and interconnected nature."

Replacing Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia around the horseshoe in the Security Council, Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov said: "Since the collapse of the USSR and the establishment of independent States in its place, the US and its satellites have egregiously and openly interfered in the domestic affairs of Ukraine… all the facts are being swept under the rug. There are attempts to cancel all of what happened since prior to 2014."

Rosemary Di Carlo, Head of Political Affairs at the UN at a High-Level meeting on Sudan at UNHQ warned:
"More than 6 million Sudanese are one step away from famine. These numbers will keep growing, as long as the guns keep talking”.

الأمم المتحدة تحذر: أكثر من 6 ملايين سوداني على بعد خطوة واحدة من المجاعة، والأعداد ستستمر في التزايد إذا لم تصمت الأسلحة.
اجتماع رفيع المستوى حول دعم العمل الإنساني في

— أخبار الأمم المتحدة (@UNNewsArabic)

We can no longer afford to bury our head in the sand and ignore the writing on the wall.

The reform of international financial institutions and the global financial architecture has reached a point of urgent necessity.

It is absolutely clear that the current financial…

— UN GA President (@UN_PGA)

“From the comfortable distance of this Chamber, it’s really easy to lose sight of what it’s like for Ukrainian victims of Russian aggression,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, recalling a recent visit to Ukraine, told the Security Council. “Russia is weaponizing hunger.”

"Russia knows the power of collective action, because it tries so hard to weaken and divide the international community,” Oliver Dowden, Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, said in the Security Council. “Collectively, we need effective multilateralism to secure peace.”