UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on 2 September 2022 appointed Roza Otunbayeva, a former President of Kyrgyzstan, as his new special envoy for Afghanistan.
In June 2022, Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations was appointed as the Under Secretary General of the United Nations.
A set of new family laws, referred to as ‘Federal Personal Status Laws’, for non-Muslims residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) came into force from February 2023.