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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
A report released today by the World Health Organization and its partners says violence against women remains pervasive and starts when women are alarmingly young. Across their lifetime, one in three women, that’s around 736 million, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner. That’s a number that has remained largely unchanged over the past decade. One in four young women who have been in a relationship will have already experienced violence by the time they reach their mid-twenties.
The report is based on data from 2000 to 2018 and does not reflect the ongoing impact of the pandemic. WHO and its partners warned that COVID-19 has triggered a “shadow pandemic” of increased women’s exposure to violence, as a result of measures such as lockdowns and disruptions to vital support services.
The report also found that the regions of Oceania, Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa have the highest prevalence rates of intimate partner violence among women who are between the ages of 15 and 49. The lowest rates are found in Europe, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, and South-East Asia.

CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund.
The Fund has allowed humanitarian organizations to kick-start urgent aid operations worldwide within hours of a natural disaster. With it, the UN is able to reach people in crises not receiving the attention and funding they deserve. The fund is a cornerstone in the response to global crises and in standing with people at their time of greatest needs.
In 2020, the Fund helped bring food assistance to over seven million people. It also ensured that 5.5 million women and girls were protected in natural disasters among many other crises.
Since 2006, CERF has allocated $7 billion helping millions of people in 100 countries get critical life-saving assistance.
The UN thanks all the donors and Member States who have generously contributed funding to the Central Emergency Response Fund over the years, as well as the partners who have worked together to deliver humanitarian relief and protection.

SECURITY COUNCIL/SUDAN
The Security Council met virtually on the new UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, otherwise known as UNITAMS.
In his first briefing to the Council, the head of the mission, Volker Perthes, said the political transition process in Sudan is moving forward.
He stressed that an inclusive political process, including all segments of Sudan’s diverse society, is essential for its success.
Mr. Perthes said that the protection of civilians remains one of the mission’s main priorities, with 165 people killed and more than 100,000 people displaced in intercommunal clashes in West Darfur in January.
He said the UN is working to support the new Government to strengthen the protection of civilians.

MYANMAR
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener is continuing her diplomacy. She is in contact with countries in the region, including Myanmar’s direct neighbors. Discussions about her potential travel to the region continue.

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Poverty is about insufficient money to meet basic needs including food, clothing, and shelter. Poverty is a chronic issue plaguing our planet since the dawn of time, but Africa seems to suffer the worst of it compared to other continents.

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It is small, impoverished, and one of few communist states left in Asia. Laos has, in recent years, seen an increase in support from neighboring China. But at what cost?

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The world seems to have gone directly from a hegemonic US-led international system to an interregnum in the global order. The traditional phase of multipolarity—or restoration of the balance of power, or even a struggle among rival systems of order has been skipped. Jason Pack's new book which launches in the UK the week of this event and in the US in February 2022, Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder (Hurst/Oxford University Press) presents the Libya conflict as an ideal microcosm for examining the collective failures typical of our new geopolitics. More so than civil wars in Yemen, Syria, Venezuela, or Ukraine, Libya’s ongoing crisis constitutes the ideal microcosm in which to identify the salient features, and likely outcomes, of this new era of geopolitics. The country’s post-Qadhafi trajectory has been molded by the stark absence of coherent international diplomacy; while Libya’s incremental implosion has precipitated cross-border contagion, further corroding global institutions and international coordination.

Please join Pack as he introduces the key themes of his book and former UN Acting Special Envoy to Libya Stephanie Williams and senior research fellow Tim Eaton as they share the dilemmas they faced coordinating international policy and how they shed light on the concept of the "Enduring Disorder".

Delving into specific test cases, especially the ongoing chaos surrounding Libya's scheduled December 24 election, the panel will discuss how the Biden Administration's policy towards Afghanistan and the Middle East in general and Libya in particular highlight where today's geopolitics seems to be headed and the collective actions challenges that undergird all of today's major global challenges from climate change, to tax havens, to Libya's transition.

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The business of air travel relies on open borders, open skies and freedom of movement, leaving it acutely vulnerable to the trend towards rising protectionism and nationalism in politics across the world. Aviation reporter for the Wall Street Journal Benjamin Katz strings together a series of events in recent years, including former US President Trump’s travel ban, the pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, through the lens of aviation, to show how our world is getting smaller, what that means for the industry and crucially, what it means for passengers. Benjamin Katz is a reporter writing about the global aviation and aerospace industry in The Wall Street Journal’s London bureau.

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