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Findings released as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence Against Children visits Lebanon

• Beirut, 17 December 2021 – One in two children in Lebanon is at serious risk of physical, emotional, or sexual violence, as families struggle to cope in the country’s deepening crisis, according to a new report from UNICEF.

• Beirut, 19 December 2021 - The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Antonio Guterres, will be visiting the Port of Beirut on Monday 20 December at 10:15 AM to pay tribute to the victims of the Beirut Port blast.

• Beirut, 19 December 2021– Members of the media are cordially invited to a press conference by United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday 21 December 2021 at 6:00 PM, at Movenpick Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon.

Baabda, Lebanon 

19 December 2021 

By United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; His Beatitude Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rahi, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and Head of the Maronite Church; His Eminence Abdul Latif Derian, Sunni Grand Mufti; Judge Sheikh Mahdi El-Yahfoufi representing  His Eminence Sheikh Ali Al Khatib, Deputy Head of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council; His Beatitude Patriarch John X Yaziji, Patriarch of Antioch for the Greek Orthodox Church; His Eminence Sheikh Sami Abil Mona, Druze Sheikh Aql and Head of the Druze Unitarian Council; and His Holiness Catholicos Aram I Keshishian, Head of the Catholicosate of the House of Cilicia of the Armenian Orthodox Church.