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This year, as the UN joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, predatory marketing of breast-milk substitutes continues to undermine global efforts to promote breastfeeding and its health benefits.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Antje Grawe of Germany as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kyrgyzstan.

So far, 10 African countries have pledged their support for the Education Plus initiative: Benin, Cameroon, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Uganda.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Denise Brown of Canada as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ukraine.

The UN Joint Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Fund activated a Development Emergency Modality this week to respond to the unfolding global food, energy, and financing crises. The war in Ukraine set in motion a three-dimensional crisis that is producing alarming cascading effects on a world economy already battered by COVID-19 and climate change.