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The growing complexities of the world drug problem impair our efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in this challenging Decade of Action. The situation has only been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• TEHRAN, 18 December 2020 (IOM) – Director General of International Organization for Migration António Vitorino, in his message on International Migrants Day, 18 December 2020, said the global response to COVID-19 presents a unique opportunity to reimagine human mobility from the ground up, to implement the vision of the Global Compact for Safe Orderly and Regular Migration, and build prosperous, healthy and resilient communities.
  

  

• To address the most immediate threats posed to the agriculture sector and rural development in the Asia and the Pacific, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) along with its 46 member nations, private sector and civil society organisations in the region convene a conference, providing an inclusive platform to examine ways forward to strengthen the resilience of agro-food systems and livelihoods, and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and climate change on agricultural sectors in this, the most populated part of the world.  

• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the first observance of Interntional Delegates Day, 25 April 2020, said the delegates who represent their country at the United Nations are rising to the challenge of COVID-19, adopting new ways of working while building on a strong tradition of dialogue and collaboration.

• UNODC has recently published a Research Brief to analyze possible scenarios of how smuggling of migrants and cross-border trafficking in persons are likely to be affected by the COVID-19 crisis along mixed migration routes to two important destination regions: North America and Europe.