In his Annual Report on the work of the Group, launched on Wednesday, forward of the gathering of world leaders at UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Guterres highlighted how the UN has stepped up.
“Nowhere are the wants higher than within the midst of emergencies,” he stated.
“In 2022, along with our companions on the bottom, we coordinated humanitarian response plans for 216 million folks throughout 69 nations and territories and delivered life-saving help and safety to almost 160 million folks in pressing want.”
The UN additionally mobilized a document $30 billion in humanitarian support from donors globally, enabling life-saving programmes in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Somalia and lots of different disaster hotspots.
UN Secretary-Basic António Guterres meets a household of internally displaced folks at a camp in Baidoa in southwestern Somalia.
Peace: UN’s beating coronary heart
Peacekeeping, peacebuilding and defending susceptible populations remained on the centre of the Group’s work.
“Peace is the beating coronary heart of the United Nations. Our groups deployed a variety of instruments to stop, mitigate, handle and resolve conflicts, whereas defending the folks affected by them,” Mr. Guterres stated.
These efforts spanned from brokering truces in Yemen to overseeing 41 particular political missions, 12 peacekeeping operations, and channelling $231 million from the Peacebuilding Fund to assist work throughout 37 nations, with a good portion devoted to empowering ladies and younger folks.
The UN additionally continued its collaboration with regional organizations, together with the African Union, to foster peace in nations which have lengthy suffered from battle.
Combating starvation
It additionally performed a pivotal function within the Black Sea Initiative, which concerned Türkiye, Russia and Ukraine, geared toward mitigating world starvation and sustaining meals provides.
The Initiative and a parallel UN-Russian accord enabled the export of over 32 million tons of grain, different foodstuff and fertilizers to world markets. Over half the meals exports went to creating nations.
The Initiative was not renewed after its third time period, which expired in July.
Meals and water support is delivered by dinghy to a small village close to Kherson, Ukraine, about 15 kilometres from the entrance line
Selling human rights
As COVID-19 lockdowns subsided, the UN helped human rights our bodies to renew in-person work, together with by common and particular classes of the Human Rights Council, and over 50 in-country visits by unbiased rights consultants.
It performed trainings for police and safety forces in over a dozen nations and territories, selling respect for worldwide human rights requirements, and deployed emergency response groups in seven areas globally to anticipate and reply to crises.
The UN additionally supported help given to 47,000 victims of torture and greater than 13,000 victims of up to date types of slavery.
Dedicated employees
The dedication of UN employees members shone by of their dedication to addressing world crises and setting humanity on a brand new path to peace, stability and prosperity, Mr. Guterres stated.
“The United Nations won’t ever cease preventing for a greater future,” he added.
