• ILO data shows extent of cost-of-living crisis on poorest workers
• Guidelines unveiled for fair and ethical recruitment of migrants
• UN agencies fear having to cut food aid to most vulnerable in Chad

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• Large parts of world drier than normal in 2021, warns WMO
• UNCTAD urges more shipping industry investment in sustainability
• Uganda’s refugee response ‘bursting at the seams’, warns UNHCR

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– WHO recommends adopting ‘mpox’ for monkeypox  – ‘Critical opportunity’ to strengthen Biological Weapons Convention  – UN Women launches advice for protection of women rights defenders in migration settings 

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• Afghanistan: Taliban treatment of women may be crime against humanity  

• Tigray: High hunger levels despite stepped-up aid – WFP 

• Biological weapons discussions must reflect our changed world 

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• Migrant deaths since 2014 top 50,000

• Haiti: children account for two in five cholera cases (UNICEF)

• Humanitarian sanction exemptions fall short

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• Human rights chief Türk on Saudi Arabia executions  

• Iran: 300 people killed in protests since 16 September – UN rights office  

• UN chief urges action to stamp out violence against women 

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• Myanmar: Rights expert urges Korea to play ‘enhanced leadership role’

• WHO updates list of ‘priority pathogens’ including ‘Disease X’

• 2021 global intellectual property filings reached new records: WIPO

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• UNCTAD chief welcomes solution to unblock Russian fertiliser exports
• DRC: UNHCR calls for ban on forced returns of asylum seekers
• UN experts alarmed by harassment of climate activists at COP27

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• UN Secretary-General welcomes renewal of Black Sea Grain Initiative
• UN experts condemn Israeli attacks against Palestinian rights defender Issa Amro
• Sea temperatures in parts of Pacific, three times global average: WMO

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• Sahel countries risk decades of armed conflict and displacement, warns UNHCR
• UNICEF initiative to enhance countries’ climate resilience and disaster preparedness
• Guterres calls on G20 delegates to embrace digital future for all

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• Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war tortured and ill-treated: OHCHR
• Call for immediate release of peaceful protesters in Iran
• Climate extremes threaten food security in Latin America and the Caribbean: WFP

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• Aid delivered to Kherson for first time since Russia invasion
• Rights chief urges more protection for Somali civilians
• African region tops world in undiagnosed diabetes: WHO

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• 600,000 doses of cholera vaccine arrive in Lebanon
• Syria: UN expert calls for lifting of long-lasting unilateral sanctions
• Committee on Enforced Disappearances to visit Iraq    

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• Global disparity in access to essential vaccines, says WHO report
• Saudi Arabia urged to allow access to human rights defender
• The UN cookbook that gives fish a voice

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• Over 27 million children at risk as devastating record-setting floods
• UN rights chief calls for release of Egyptian blogger on hunger strike
• ‘Grave concerns’ after deadly attacks on IDP camps in Syria

• World on a ‘highway to climate hell’ warns Guterres
• Early warnings action plan against extreme weather launched at COP27
• Witnesses give testimony to UN human rights investigators on Israel-Palestine

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• Safety and security of Yemeni civilians at risk without truce extension
• Concern after 5 arrested at women’s civil society press conference in Kabul
• Climate crisis in Pakistan highlights need for adaptation investment

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• Iconic World Heritage glaciers to disappear by 2050: UNESCO
• Horn of Africa: Climate-related health crisis worsens
• Renewable energy will save lives and money: WHO

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• Rising temperatures in Europe more than twice global average: WMO
• Human rights must be at the heart of climate action: Türk
• Free press is vital to democracy: UN chief

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• UN rights chief urges de-escalation amid renewed DR Congo violence
• Public health risks increase across flood-ravaged Pakistan
• Special tribunal finds CAR militia chiefs guilty of crimes against humanity

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• UN chief deeply saddened after tragedy in Seoul stampede
• Global labour market to deteriorate amid Ukraine war shocks: ILO
• Progress, but more needed by oil and gas giants to reduce methane emissions

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• Millions under threat of flooding across west, central Africa: UNHCR
• Russia urged to repeal – not expand – restrictive LGBTI laws
• Haiti: 96,000 displaced by gang violence, reports IOM

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• Iran: Protest crackdown warrants independent international probe
• Ecosystems more sensitive to nitrogen pollution than previously assumed
• UN panel urges States to address stigma against indigenous women

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• UN human rights condemns Kyrgyzstan arrests
• WHO releases first list of health-threatening fungi 
• Chad’s ‘lethal repression’ of protests in UN human rights spotlight 

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• Better, smarter investment needed to protect drinking water worldwide
• Pace of Lebanon, Syria cholera outbreak, threatens whole Middle East
• Sudan support group calls for protester death investigation

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• Chad: UN human rights office appeals for calm after protests 
• Deadly floods affect 2.5 million in Nigeria: UNICEF 
• Guterres salutes UN partnership with Viet Nam 

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• Somalia: WFP delivering lifesaving aid to record number
• Peace and security worsening for women worldwide
• Children in Africa five times less likely to learn basics

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• WHO urges governments to get people moving 
• Guterres highlights partnership between UN and India 
• UNICEF warns of child deaths amid Somalia drought 

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