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OK, so let's start this briefing.

Good morning everyone.

Welcome to the press briefing of the Information Service of the United Nations here in Geneva.

Today is Friday 6th November and we, you have received the agenda of the briefing.

But before we start, I wanted to introduce a colleague who's not new exactly, but maybe has not been introduced properly to you, and I would like to do it now.

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Lahmood is the communication focal point, the communication officer.

Maybe it's the right title of the independent institution on missing persons in the Syrian Arab Republic.

And he's based in Geneva.

So we will hear more from him because there is an event which is coming up.

Maybe you want to say a word about that?

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But I just wanted to introduce you to him officially, so maybe you want to take the floor for just one word.

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Thank you very much, Alessandra, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen, actually very honoured to be here and thank you for the kind introduction.

I am Watban and the Public Information officer of the Independent Institute Institution on Missing Persons in Syria based here in Geneva.

As indicated by Alessandra, we have, we are based here in Geneva for those who are not aware of our institution and I'm looking forward to have interactions with all of you that hope who are interested in the missing persons file in Syria.

Me and my colleague are present here even after this event.

If you would like to reach out, we'll be more than happy to share information when requested.

As indicated by the Central, we are holding an annual forum for the independent institution early December and we will be sharing information regards to that particular event and then you can reach out to us separately.

We will give you more details on the event itself after the event.

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Thank you very much.

And just for your information, we are revising the list of spokesperson.

So you will find the contact details of Whitman in that updated version of the of the of the list.

Thank you very much, Whitman.

So let's start now with the first subject of our briefing, which is Sudan.

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And also and we have a joint briefing today by IOMNUNHCR.

So we have the pleasure to welcome Abubakar Jalu, who's the UNHCR deputy representative in Sudan, who's connecting from Khartoum.

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And Mohammed Rifad was the chief of mission IOM from Khartoum.

I don't think I need to introduce you to him because we've had the chance to hear from him several times.

So here is the problem of funding that we want to underline today.

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Good morning, everyone.

As Alexandra just mentioned, I'm pleased to introduce Abu Baker Jallo, our UNHECR Deputy representative in Sudan, who is joining us from Khartoum.

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He has witnessed first hand the devastating impact of this war on millions of people and the extra extraordinary resilience of a Sudanese community despite everything has they have endured.

He has also just returned from Kosti in White Nile Estate where he met displaced family and heard their stories.

Today, he will share his personal reflection on the past 3 1/2 year of war, what he has witnessed on the ground and the increasingly difficult condition facing displaced family as winter approaches, with the humanitarian needs growing and resource running dangerously low.

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Over to you.

Thank you very much for the warm introduction.

Good morning, everyone.

Indeed, Yes, I'm calling and joining you from Khartoum.

On 15th of April 2023, I woke up in Khartoum to the sound of war.

The days that followed are still very much blared.

Like millions of Sudanese, I did not know where the next shell will land or whether families will see each other again.

Many fled within minutes, carrying only what they can lay and on.

They left their homes, they left their blankets, they left their cooking pots, everything that makes a house a home for millions of people across Sudan.

This uncertainty remains real and with the urgent need for a safe room over their heads.

And the most basic times to begin.

I mean basic items to begin with.

Today I am back in Khartoum, working with partners, with civil society, with communities and with everyone who are, I mean helping everyone who have lost their lives or have been uprooted in this world.

3 1/2 years on, the conflict continues and suffering deepens as front lines changes, more families forced to flee.

Some of the first some of them will flee for the first time, while others are fleeing for the second time or even a third time.

They arrive in places with little, with little or nothing to support them.

The host communities, and we must commend them for this, do are doing all they can to help, struggling to meet the growing needs which they themselves have very little to provide.

Almost 15,000,000 people in Sudan have been uprooted by this war or are trying to rebuild their places, I mean their lives in places that have been destroyed.

They include Sudanese displaced within Sudan country itself.

They include returnees who are determined to restart their lives.

And they include refugees who at some point fled into Sudan seeking safety years ago.

But because of the conflict, they are also fleeing for their lives once again.

This year, the war has suddenly spread to a new frontline in the blue United States.

Nearly 120,000 people have been displaced there since January.

Many fled in the middle of the night.

Some arrive in places relative of relative safety with only what they can carry.

Others arrive with nothing at all.

And even after fleeing, many still do not feel safe.

Three in four displaced persons in Sudan are women and children.

When our teams speak to displaced people, and it's just been mentioned that I also came from Kosti, when we talk to this place in Blue Nile, in the Darfur, in the Golden fans, we hear strikingly similar stories.

They have no privacy.

There are no private or separate latrines for women and girls.

Children are being sent to work without, I mean because their families have nothing left.

For a woman who has lost everything, a tent is more than just a shelter.

It means the difference between sleeping in the open, surrounded by strangers and having a space of our own.

It means dignity, it is privacy and it is safety for that woman and family.

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A solar lamp is more than just a source of light, it is safety.

It means a woman can reach a latrine at night without walking in darkness.

A kitchen set is also more than a collection of a household item.

It means mother can cook for children without exposing herself to the unnecessary risk.

And now winter is approaching.

Sudan is known as a country of extreme heat.

That is true, yet winter in winter nights in Darfur can be Italy cold and the temperatures in the north in northern Sudan can fall to single digits.

For newborn babies or older persons, a blanket can be a life saving item.

Many families are approaching winter with shelters that are already damaged or barely standing.

In Tarila, which now shelters nearly 900,000 people, heavy rains this year, some I mean this summer destroyed hundreds of tents across displaced sites.

Sites two and five displacement families are living under plastic sheets that are have built buildings.

At the same time, El Nino had brought far less rain to Sudan this year, affecting harvesting across.

Therefore, for the farm and many other areas that are already impacted by the ongoing fighting this time of the year.

Normally food is supposed to be affordable.

It is just after harvest, yet prices remain painfully high.

In September alone, the price of staple grain rose by up to 40% on top of already extremely high inflation for a family that has lost everything.

Every Sudanese pounds spent on food is money they cannot spend on a blanket or supplies or safe shelter.

Even getting life saving assistance to those who need it has become increasingly dangerous.

In this year alone, drones, truck unit shared vehicles are in trucks.

Twice our drivers survived, but every emergency shelter for more than 1300 families went up in flames near Tarwila in April and in July in White Nile, 50 tonnes of of blankets, sleeping mats and solar lamps were destroyed.

When those the supplies were destroyed, families lost many more items.

Women lost a measure of protection, children lost warmth of blankets and families who had already fled violence, often multiple times, lost the chance of having a roof over their heads.

Despite these challenges, our teams, our drivers, our partners continue to work everyday to reach the millions that are in need.

The collective shelter response requires $179 million this year.

So far, only 35% has been funded.

I want to end with a story from Amira.

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Kumuk is in the Blue Nile, and she left on foot, in the dark with her three children, nothing else.

It took her days walking, travelling in crowded frogs, to reach the Mazeon.

When she arrived, the displacement sites were already full of families who had the same desperate, who had made the same desperate journey as she had done.

We had been sleeping under the sky, she told us.

Then our teams brought her a tent.

That night, my children finally had a roof.

It was nothing small, she added to us.

Those words stayed with me.

They stayed with me because many of us, a roof is something we barely notice.

For a mother who has cleared violence with her children, it means safety, dignity and the ability to sleep without fear.

For millions of families in Sudan this winter, the modest hope remains.

This modest hope remains out of reach.

The difference between sleeping under a roof and sleeping under the open sky in winter in Sudan is not a question of technology.

We know what these families need.

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It is a question of access, it is a question of resource, and above all, it is a question of whether the international community chooses to act before this winter passes.

For the families who have already lost so much, thank you very much.

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Let me now go to IOM and to Mohammed Rifat.

So you want to start or?

Yes, Thank you very much, Alessandra.

So from IOM, we have our Chief of Mission in Sudan, Doctor Mohammed Rafat, on the line and he will speak to us about the 15.4 million people urgently needing emergency shelter and noting that we have just put out a joint press release with UNHCR warning of the funding gap and the fact that funding is running out.

Over to you, Doctor Mohammed Rafat.

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Maybe I will just try to compliment what my colleague Abubakar mentioned.

Let me start by saying that a year ago, if we would have gathered to speak about shelter, we would have focused on funding, but also on access constraints.

But today, thanks to the effort that was made by all colleagues and the humanitarian country team and above and advocacy, I can definitely say we have more access and we can reach more people.

And this means also that we can listen to the stories of their suffer.

And this also means that we are more accountable.

Now was we cannot say that we don't know, but we know and we have met them and we have here the stories.

I'm here with Abu Ghra from NCR, not only to talk about funding, but also to flag and get your attention in a massive displacement crisis that you are all aware about.

But our estimate as IOM, as the agency collecting the data on displacement on the ground that things might get worse, that numbers might start increasing again.

The 8.6 million that's currently displaced in Sudan have been decreasing gradually because of the returns.

But let's not confuse those who are returning that they are returning to homes because homes are not necessary always available when they return back.

Every humanitarian here on the ground, whether it's women LED organisation, emergency room, IGONGOUN agency is feeling the pressure last month.

I have a colleague, international staff working in Darfur, who was helping an old woman, 70 years old nor getting her her tent after she had been displaced from al fascia for more than 1011 months.

She's a grandmother for two kids and she told him, I wish I could offer you something to eat, but I have not eaten for one day.

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Simply, he asked her about her family and she told him I have 3 kids, a married daughter she could count with her husband, another son I lost him in adventure, and the father of the two kids who may have whom he left us 10 months ago to go looking for a job.

He never came back.

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Maybe he's now in Egypt.

Maybe he's now in chat trying to find a job opportunity.

Or maybe he's one of those who have died on the road to the Mediterranean.

Or maybe he's one of those who have made it to the Eastern European side.

As we talk, Sudanese are becoming the number one national teams arriving in Europe through the eastern Lithuanian side.

So our failure in Sudan doesn't mean that it will stay in Sudan.

If we are not able to provide aid in Sudan at scale, it means neighbouring countries will be impacted, other countries will be impacted.

We all know the numbers, so I will not waste a lot of time.

We have heard about the 4.6 outside, 4.6 million outside of Sudan.

We have heard about the 5.2 million who has already returned back.

But we see them here in Khartoum as me and Abu Bakrab here, and we see how many houses have been destroyed, how many homes have been looted, how many people have returned back to find no health, no electricity, no water, and they might have to leave again and leave without any hope for returning back.

Others are students that move, fleeing violence from a second or third time.

And others, maybe around 3.5 million who have been displaced for over 10 years in Sudan.

People are looking for somewhere to stay safe.

As Abu Bakshi mentioned, a tent is not just a roof, it's protection.

I can, I can confirm this strongly with every woman, with every child we have met.

One of the biggest hope for them is to feel safe.

It's for a single mother to leave her kids any place where she knows she can go and look for food or look for a job while her kids have somewhere to stay.

The needs in Sudan is around 13.4 million people who urgently need emergency shelters in Sudan.

But we don't have resources, so we decided to sell only one out of 10.

But even within the one out of 10, we could reach only 900,000 people with what we have.

Thus, this year IOM was able to distribute more than 40,000 tonnes.

But our warehouses are completely empty.

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We are moving stocks, succeeding to get supplies into hard Ridge areas and supporting families who have been displaced or are returning home.

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But they were just the lost that we had in our stocks.

We are facing serious problems.

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Ongoing conflicts and logistic challenges are already making it difficult to reach people in in our effect, the challenge for more people to be in severe food shortage, severe malnutrition might push people to move.

And we are not ready and we don't have enough stocks to support them where they will go.

We could soon reach a point where families desperately need shelter, but there is simply nothing to left to get them.

And I want to stress something.

Shelter is not just about having a roof over your head.

Again, it's not just a roof.

It's about the dignity that we give to the families, to the kids.

It's about the support that we provide for the elders.

And it's about the hopes that they can still have to stay where they are and try to maintain dignity until peace can reach back to Sudan.

Our appeal today, we urgently need flexible funding to keep emergency supplies flowing and to replenish our stocks and to reach families before it's too late.

And we need the support to continue.

Those people are still fleeing, and families are still returning to destroyed homes.

And their needs are not just going away.

After nearly four years of conflict, Sudanese families have already lost so much.

We cannot undo what they have endured, but we can make sure that we have a safe place to sleep tonight.

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Thank you very much to both our speakers.

Head open the floor to questions now.

I don't see any hand up.

Thank you very much to both of you then and and thanks to it for for bringing the doctor and to Eugene to being Abubakar and Eugene, I keep you on the podium because you have got another point of briefing and this time is with Janet Berner who comes in from from to us from Nairobi, who is your climate action expert.

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Thank you very much.

So we are now turn to Nairobi where I brought my colleague Jana, Unhcr's climate action expert who has just returned from Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

During her visit, she met refugee who shared the first hand how the import, how the impacts of a climate changes are affecting their daily lives and making an already difficult situation even more challenging.

I hope that you guys all received our climate report as well as a press release that we share.

This morning.

Jana will walk us through the latest data in the climate report to share some of the stories she she heard on the ground.

Jana, over to you morning and thank you very much for joining us today.

We are here today because we have launched a new report which is showing that climate impacts are disproportionately affecting the space communities across the globe.

We have developed this report as part of our broader No Escape series.

It's the third report in the row.

And we've developed this together with partners and most importantly with refugee and community leaders globally because they really want to centre their voices but also their challenges and their business directly.

What the report is showing us is that 90 million forcibly displaced globally are now living by mid 2026 in countries that are highly or extremely exposed to climate related hazards, including floods, droughts and extreme heat.

This includes countries like Ethiopia, Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, but also Sudan.

And this is a particularly concerning given the current and linear situation, as our deputy representative has already pointed out.

However, it's also important to note that exposure alone does not tell the whole story.

Displacement means often losing the resources that people need to adapt to the impacts of climate change, like income, like shelter, or like social safety net.

What the report also shows us is new data on extreme heat thanks to Oregon State University and Montana State University and we see that extreme heat is a particular concern for refugee settlements in sub-Saharan Africa and then substantial increase in days with extreme heat until 2050.

We know now that one in three refugee settlements across sub-Saharan Africa will see up to 100 days of extreme heat by 2050.

And in some countries like an Ethiopia, it could be up to more than 200 days.

So more than half of every day in a year with extreme heat.

What we mean with extreme heat is a combination of humidity and temperature to really reflect the devastating impacts on the human body and we know that particularly women, pregnant women, children and elderly people are affected.

What the report is also showing us, and what we are also hearing from refugees themselves, is that climate impacts can be a contributing driver for displacement.

But thanks to data from IDMC, we know that over the past 10 years we saw 255 new internal displacements related to weather related disasters, which is an equivalent of around 70,000 displacements per day.

This is an increase of around 5% if we compare it to the average of the previous 10 decades until 2024.

However, it's important tonight that this also includes preemptive evacuations.

And we're talking here about displacements for movements and not people.

And I could see this first hand because it can also be people that have been forced to flee initially because of war or conflict that are displaced again.

When I was in Kakuma, I could talk to refugee representatives who told me that they have been displaced again by devastating floods affecting the camps.

And I could see that there's vocational training centres, there's schools and there's health facilities at at risk of being closed or already being closed because of the floods and erosions, which then undermines the long term resilience of refugees even more.

What the report and what refugees globally also telling us that climate impacts can undermine the sustainability of durable solutions.

What that means is that UNHCR is estimating that by mid 20262 and 3 refugee returnees returning to their countries have returned to climate vulnerable countries.

That means that the sustainability of this return can be undermined and they might be at risk of onward displacement again, or they might be at risk of integrating locally.

That means that we need to invest more in climate resilient recovery and in climate resilient reconstruction, including in water systems, but also in agricultural systems and livelihoods.

Lastly, what I want to point out going into COP 31 that we're not only seeing the vulnerability of refugees globally, we are also seeing that they are leading solutions on the front lights worldwide.

This is ranging from climate smart agriculture to climate resilient shelter.

We are seeing reforestation efforts.

I saw in Kakuma how refugees are planting trees to green the camp again.

So they are already leading these solutions, but they're not getting enough support.

There's not enough **** line findings reaching these places and we need better inclusion to scale these solutions.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Janet, for this, for this briefing.

Let me see if there are questions to you in the room or on the platform.

No, I don't see any.

So thank you very much for informing us of this.

And I hope that the COP 31 will definitely go in in that solution and look at the needs of this displaced people.

Ricardo, we go back to Ukraine.

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Let's hear more about it, about children in Ukraine from you.

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Yes, sequencing from my last briefing on Tuesday on the situation in Ukraine, which continues to aggravate daily.

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Yesterday, UNICEF released a new report, Water Under Fire, documenting A deeply alarming global trend.

Between 2021 and 2025, reported attacks damaging or destroying water systems tripled from fewer than 45 incidents across eight countries to more than 135 incidents across 15 countries.

Attacks on water infrastructure, energy supplies, and the people who keep these systems running are depriving children of something fundamental to their survival, safe water.

And that and what this report describes globally, it has been unfolding in Ukraine and now the situation is extremely dire.

In late 20251 in three children in Ukraine lived in homes without functioning water supplies or sewage systems.

The report also documents power outages lasting 12 hours or more at a time that cut water and heating.

Kiev, a city of around 3 million people, including half million children, has experienced major disruptions to its water supply this week following attacks on energy infrastructure.

On Tuesday, large parts of the city were left without running water, and again yesterday, power outages.

Outages disrupted water supplies in every district district of the capital, affecting homes, hospitals, schools and kindergartens.

This is how quickly a power crisis becomes a water crisis.

When electricity fails, it isn't.

It is not just the lights that go on.

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Heating systems fail, hospitals struggle to provide care, schools cannot function normally and with winter approaching, the consequences for children and families could be devastating.

Imagine being a a parent in Kiev preparing for another freezing winter of war, not knowing whether your child child will have safe water to drink, whether the school will remain open and whether your home will stay warm.

This is why UNICEF is working urgently to keep essential services running in Kiev.

We have already provided 47 generators to the Cedars water utility and upgraded pumps at four major major pumping stations.

We are supporting alternative water sources, including boreholes and public water kiosks that can operate doing during power outrageous, which again continue to increase.

And at the National Cancer Institute, UNICEF is helping establish A borehole reaching 3, 100 metres underground, providing the hospital with an independent source of safe drinking water.

Across Ukraine, UNICEF has helped more than 5 million people access safe water and sanitation services this year, while also supporting heating for more than 3 million people.

But humanitarian assistance?

But humanitarian assistance cannot be a substitute for protecting civilian infrastructure.

As our Water Under Fire reports makes clear, the consequences of attacks on water and energy systems extend far beyond an immediate damage.

They threaten Children's Health, education, safety and survival.

Children in Ukraine have already endured years of bombardments, displacement and disrupted childhoods.

They should not have to face another winter without the most basic services they need to survive.

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Water and energy systems must be protected and every child must have access to safe water, warmth and essential services even and more.

Thank you, Alessandro.

Thank you very much, Ricardo.

It's important to keep this in the light.

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I don't see any hand up, so thank you.

Is that a hand, Isabel, or just a movement?

Thank you very much.

Thanks, Ricardo.

And then I'd like to ask WHO to join me on the podium.

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I'm a veteran by now.

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Thank you very much and good morning, everyone.

And after hearing those updates on migrants, on climate risk and on the kids in Ukraine, as a as a physician, I feel very sad for all of this because I know that the impact on health and, and so today I would like to speak about something else.

So it might be very minor compared to what we have heard before, but I think it's still an important topic that I would like to share with you.

So who will be launching the movement of Together for Science and Health next week?

And this movement is to preserve trust in science and shape the science of the future.

So why should we care about trust in science?

Because trust has consequences.

When people trust science, they are more likely to use scientific knowledge to make decision about their health.

When policy makers trust science, evidence has a stronger place in public policy.

And when societies valued science, they are more willing to invest in research, discovery and innovation.

The opposite is also true.

Less trust can mean less investment, less investment means less scientific progress, and less trust in science can also mean less evidence in the policy that affect our whole lives.

This matters because scientific progress is alone is not enough.

New drugs, vaccine or diagnostic that people do not trust, cannot access or do not understand will never achieve their full potential and for instance, a new vaccines or a new treatment.

The Welcome Global Monitor 2026, titled Trust in Science under Pressure, based on more than 140,000 people in 140 countries and areas, found that 70% of the people globally trust scientists, but it is on the decline since 2018.

It also found significant gaps in people's knowledge of science and in perceptions of whether science benefit them.

And today, the relationship between science and societies facing new pressures.

First, science is moving extraordinarily fast.

Artificial intelligence, genomics, gene therapies, precision medicine and other technologies are changing what is possible in health, but society does not always have the time or opportunity to understand and adapt to these changes.

WH OS own framing recognises this growing disconnect and the risks that the benefits of innovation are distributed unequally.

If science advances but millions of people do not see its benefit in their own lives, we should not be surprised if they begin to question whom science is serving.

Second, artificial intelligence is changing science itself.

It's changing how knowledge is generated, analysed, and communicated.

This creates extraordinary opportunities in health, but it also raises new questions about transparency, accountability, and how we know what information to trust.

And 3rd, our information environment has been transformed.

People have access to more health information that at any point in history.

But more information does not necessarily means better information.

Misinformation and disinformation circulate at an unprecedented speed.

Scientific findings compete for attention alongside opinions, rumours, commercial interest and deliberately false information.

And the result is not is often not simply disbelief, it's confusion.

People ask, what should I believe?

Who should I trust?

How do I know whether this information is reliable?

And This is why we believe we need to act now on 12.

On 10N, coinciding with the World Science Day for Peace and Development, WHO is launching Together for Science and Health, a global movement bringing together scientist, policy maker, health professionals, communicators, civil society, young people and communities.

And the movement will work through three interconnected relationships.

Science and society, science and policy, science and communication.

And the world.

Together is important.

We cannot rebuild trust simply by telling people trust.

Scientist trust has to be earned.

It requires scientific integrity and transparency.

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It requires scientist engaging with community rather than communicating to them.

It requires ensuring that the benefit of scientific progress which everyone, not only those who can afford them.

And we are proposing 3 domain for enhanced connection.

Science and soniety need to come together closer so that people needs and lived experience help shape scientific priorities.

Science and science and policy need to be better connected so that decisions affecting people's health continue to be informed by the best available evidence.

And science and communication needs to work differently so that people can access accurate, understandable and trustworthy information and make informed decisions about their health.

These are three pillar at the heart of the movement.

For journalists.

I think this is particularly important role.

Journalism and science share something fundamental.

Both depends on facts, integrity, transparency and the willingness to question.

And both are essential to healthy societies.

Ultimately, preserving trust in science is about much more than defending scientists or scientific institutions.

It's about preserving our ability as society to distinguish evidence from falsehood, knowledge from opinions, and fact from manipulation.

And it's about protecting trust in public institution, in credible media, in our collective ability to solve problems together.

Because trust is in many ways the glue that all societies together.

And at a time when that glue is under strain, we need scientists, policy makers, journalists, communities and citizens to work together.

And This is why the movement is called Together for Science and Health.

And that is our invitation on 10N because preserving trust in science is not only above correcting science, it's about protecting our capacity to build healthier, fairer and more resilient society together and to shape the science we would like to have in the future.

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So sorry for I've not been able to raise my hand before, but my question is actually about Sudan.

Is someone from IOM still around?

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Sorry.

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For WHO?

No, just talk this down.

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Sorry.

John Sarcos, The Lancet.

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Interesting expose There I was.

I would like to have your views on the democratisation of science and policies.

Does that also mean The Who will in the future not require for special scientific meetings for scientists participating to sign non disclosure clauses?

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Thanks John for your question.

I'm not sure I I understand it fully, but for us what means democratisation is more first to ask society about their needs in health so that the research is driven by these needs and not research only driven by the interest of scientists.

And secondly, when when results are to be implementing also involve the society in in looking at the better ways to implement those things.

So with regard to WHO processes, there will be no changes what we want.

We will still ensure that our guidelines and our recommendation are strictly evidence based and also ensuring a very close dialogue with policy makers at country level to make sure that the results we are providing and the recommendations we are providing are well understood and well implemented.

I think John wants to clarify.

OK, I see his hand is up again.

John, just to clarify, Sylvie, you recall during the COVID outbreak, The Who hosted a meeting of prominent scientists from around the world, but many complained at the time that they were forced to sign a non disclosure clause.

Is that rule still in place?

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I think it's COVID was a very specific situation.

And so I, I think this is not necessarily a rule that applies to any situation, but what WHO will continue to do is certainly to convene scientists around the world when it's needed.

Thank you very much.

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Thank you for for bringing the doctor to us.

I have only a few other announcements for you.

First of all, let me remind you of the press conference this afternoon at 2:30 that is on the State of Climate 2026 update issued by WMO, and that will be, which is under embargo until the 9th of November at 8:30.

And so you'll have Celeste Salou, the Secretary General, WMO, and John Kennedy, the WMO Head of Climate Information, who will give you the press conference this afternoon.

As I said at 2:30, just to remind you that the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is reviewing today the report of Austria.

And at 3:00 PM in Room 16, the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will hold a joint event to mark the 60th anniversary of the International Covenant and Civic Political Rights and International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The colleagues at Waipa have asked me to inform you that next week Waipa will be holding its first ever Global Forum on Intellectual Property and AI.

The inaugural global Forum will cover AI related legal and policy issues across the full spectrum of IP rights, including patterns, copyright, trademarks, designs, trade secrets and others.

More broadly, it will explore AI's impact on IP, intellectual property, innovation and creativity.

If you have question, you can contact Ed Harris and please feel free to attend in person next Monday and Tuesday day, then at Weibo.

And last but not least on Wednesday across the street today there will be the World Investment Conference, which is not a even event.

It's it's a big event, but not particularly a even event.

However, I wanted to flag that on 11th swing the framework of this conference at 9:00, there will be a panel call on the title is investment.

Sorry investing in sports for a healthier future.

This panel will give us the opportunity to speak about football for the goals that as you surely know is the the department of our department, Department of Global Communication initiative to show how we can achieve as the GS through sports and also in particular the health, the health issue.

So you're currently cordially invited to come and listen to the discussion.

We will have some sports people and the European Football Club as a federation that will manage the the event.

I think I've told you everything I had.

Soon we have been asked also for the for information on the review conference of the conventional weapons.

The media advisory will be with you very, very soon and you have all the information about the media opportunities at this very important conference, which is starting not next week, but the week after in Geneva at the Palace.

So I think if you don't have other questions for me, I wish you a very good weekend and I'll see you next week.

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UN Geneva Press Briefing - 06 November 2026