Katerina Kitidi

Department of Global Communications, @UN

[Melissa Fleming 🇺🇳 @MelissaFleming]

As we celebrate #UNDay & our 80th anniversary, let us reaffirm our commitment to one of the most ambitious undertakings in human history:

The decision - despite our differences - to solve problems together.

To work sincerely, creatively & humbly.

For a better future for all.

[Melissa Fleming 🇺🇳 @MelissaFleming]

2023 marked the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers.

2024 could be even worse.

My heart goes out to all humanitarians who courageously risk their lives to save others, on #WorldHumanitarianDay and every day.
https://t.co/pn8QDTCJHf

[Melissa Fleming 🇺🇳 @MelissaFleming]

For the past three years, my team and I have been working on a set of recommendations to guide action for a healthier information ecosystem.
Now, I’m proud to say, the @UN Global Principles for Information Integrity are out in the world:
https://t.co/ZT7a6vMekw

[UN University - EHS @UNUEHS]

"Communicating fear without giving people agency is not effective communications," explains @MelissaFleming, @UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, in this Transformative Urban Coalitions film📽️.

Check out the full movie: https://t.co/IkzOR4UWl3

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

We have a shared responsibility to work for peace.

Regional – and indeed global - peace and security are being undermined by the hour.

The world cannot afford more war.

My remarks to Sunday's emergency Security Council session: https://t.co/I3ry6m7YuU

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

An information war has added to the trauma of the war in Gaza - obscuring facts and shifting blame.

Denying international journalists entry into Gaza is allowing disinformation and false narratives to flourish.

[francesca fontanini @fontanin]

Number of humanitarian emergencies in 2023 the highest in a decade!

#UNHCR issued 43 emergency declarations to scale up support in 29 countries and dispatched 7.4 M relief items to serve up to 16.7 M people around the world

report: https://t.co/8BwoPsAcUa

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General.

Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.

[Katerina Kitidi @katerinakit]

"Some parents in Gaza are writing names on their children’s legs, so that they can be identified if they or their families are killed. Other parents are having their children split up [...] to increase the chances that at least some of them will survive." https://t.co/1hkIGm4JJc

[James Elder @1james_elder]

Another intense evening of attacks here in Khan Younis, in #Gaza

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

🛑 Spreading unsubstantiated claims about @UNRWA must stop immediately.

Making serious allegations in the public domain, unsupported by any evidence or verifiable facts in support thereof may amount to misinformation.

FULL Statement ⬇️
https://t.co/gzNCMnVeif

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I repeat my call for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Middle East, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the delivery of life-saving supplies at the scale needed.

Everyone must assume their responsibilities.

This is a moment of truth.

History will judge us all.

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

We are in shock and mourning.

It is now confirmed that 29 of our colleagues in📍#Gaza have been killed since October 7.

Half of these colleagues were @unrwa teachers.

As an Agency, we are devastated. We are grieving with each other and with the families.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Just arrived to Cairo amid reports that a school and a hospital have come under attack in Gaza today.

Hundreds of people have been killed.

Gaza is on its knees.

The health, water and sanitation systems are collapsing.

People are being stripped of their dignity.

[Katerina Kitidi @katerinakit]

via @NYTOpinion Brutality and violence cannot be allowed to obscure a fundamental truth: We are all the product of our lived realities and collective history. https://t.co/D9Iz02YYG7

[Maher Nasser @MaherNasserUN]

With multiple summits & ministerial meetings during #UNGA78, this page of High-Level Week 2023 provides a useful overview of what to expect & links to pages with more details on the General Debate, #SDG Summit, Climate Ambition Summit, & more here: 👇
https://t.co/plcdIw2wMj

[Melissa Fleming 🇺🇳 @MelissaFleming]

A huge surge in online mis- & disinformation and hate speech is harming our world.

Lies spread on social media have leached from the margins into the mainstream & poisoned our whole info ecosystem.

It is time for social media platforms to step up. #NoToHate

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The power struggle in Sudan is not only putting that country’s future at risk.

It is lighting a fuse that could detonate across borders, causing immense suffering for years, and setting development back by decades.

The fighting must stop immediately.

[Dominique Isabelle Hyde @DominiqueHyde]

Inclusion and solidarity at its best - Syrian refugee celebrates ‘sensational’ win in German mayoral race. https://t.co/nwKFo0pdRz

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The first International Day to Combat Islamophobia is a call for action to stamp out the poison of anti-Muslim hatred.

Discrimination diminishes us all. We must stand up against it.

Today & every day, we must counter the forces of division by reaffirming our common humanity.