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Official: Chile 🇨🇱 withdraws its nomination of Michelle Bachelet for UN Secretary-General. But with Brazil 🇧🇷 & Mexico 🇲🇽 backing her, her candidacy stands strong and so does the global support behind her. #BacheletAlaONU #Bachelet4UNSG 🇺🇳

🇺🇳21–22 April: UN Secretary-General candidates present their visions in NY. 👉Time for a woman SG from Latin America & the Caribbean 👉Transparency in the process 👉Merit-based choice 👉No more backroom deals 👉Stronger #UNGA role The UN’s credibility is at stake. #MadameSGNow

Una mujer con historia ❤️

ASG for Youth Affairs & Head of the UN Youth Office @FelipePaullier began his mission to Nigeria 🇳🇬 with a meeting with UNIAGY, focused on the state of youth, joint UN programming, and a Pact for the Future framing for stronger, more coordinated youth action.

I met w Foreign Minister Lavrov 🇷🇺 to exchange views on the future of @UN - as candidate for Secretary-General. We reaffirmed the importance of the UN Charter. I shared my views on how UN can refocus efforts, strengthen effectiveness & reform to respond to today’s challenges.

🗓 On April 7, FM Sergey #Lavrov received in Moscow @RGrynspan of Costa Rica, a candidate for the post of UN Secretary-General. She outlined her campaign platform, focusing on ways to address the current challenges facing the UN. t.me/MFARussia/29106 #UNCharterIsOurRules

A major step for press freedom 📢 The Philippine Supreme Court has closed the case seeking to shut down @rapplerdotcom the independent media outlet founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Ressa. Independent journalism must not be silenced. bit.ly/48AuqBY

Celebramos el inicio del mandato de Saúl Vicente, primer indígena mexicano, como miembro experto del Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial #CERD de 🇺🇳 . México reafirma su compromiso con el fortalecimiento del sistema internacional de derechos humanos.

What does Moscow say about Grynspan's visit to MFA this week? Our report

Grynspan Aims for the High Road in Her UN Secretary-General Race passblue.com/2026/04/07/gry…

Choosing a woman to serve as Secretary-General isn’t about symbolism alone. It’s about strengthening the UN. It’s about ensuring that the institution reflects the people it serves. And it’s about sending a clear message to every young girl around the world that there is no limit to what you can achieve. #MadameSGNow

Con este video, Michelle Bachelet lanza su página web para postular a la secretaría general de la ONU. 👌

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

BREAKING🚨: Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch officially becomes the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth.

A rare sign of progress in this part of Europe, with Kosovo leading the way as one woman leader handed the presidency to another. 🇽🇰

@ARottenOldOne I’ve passed the baton on! 🏃‍♂️But continuing to advocate a change of direction from the current doomed trajectory.

French far-left MEP Rima Hassan to be tried in July over post on X reut.rs/4sd2JWS reut.rs/4sd2JWS

The leading academic institutions praised Albanese’s persistence in defending international law in Palestine despite pressure and intimidation. #Echobox=1775136319" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">brusselstimes.com/belgium/205914…

NZ 🇳🇿 is proud to have co-chaired with Jamaica 🇯🇲 on the UN80 mandates working group over the last 6 months, resulting in the adoption of landmark resolution 80/251. In times of unprecedented global challenges, the UN system must deliver improved outcomes with agility and focus. Read NZ’s statement at the adoption here ➡️bit.ly/4vcLMPk