Category: News in Brief

    • Nelson Mandela honoured as ‘mentor to generations’
    • Ghana confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus disease
    • Half the world in climate crisis ‘danger zone’ says Guterres
    • Iran: UN expert welcomes life verdict for former prison official involved in mass executions
    • Vaccine backsliding left 25 million kids at risk in 2021
    • Tunisia: Presidential decrees ‘sap’ judicial independence, says UN rights expert
    • Philippines: rights expert speaks out against court decision against Maria Ressa
    • Africa sees 63% jump in zoonotic diseases from animals to people in last decade
    • Climate financing could play key role in Africa’s economic diversification: UNCTAD

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    • UN food agency chief warns against trade barriers ahead of talks on Ukraine Black Sea cereals crisis
    • Sri Lanka: appeal for calm from UN rights office
    • Russia: Top rights experts condemn civil society shutdown
    • Multi-country hepatitis outbreak in children widens: WHO

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    • Haiti gang violence threatens over a million food insecure: WFP
    • Security Council approves new cross-border aid deal for 6 months
    • Big pharma needs to boost efforts to beat drug-resistant bugs: WHO

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    • Ukraine: ‘Please, let us in,’ WHO issues plea to reach sick and injured
    • UN rights office appeals to Sri Lanka for calm during planned protest
    • Afghanistan: UN Human Rights Council urges Taliban to reverse restrictions on girls and women 

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    • Ukraine: ‘Please, let us in,’ WHO issues plea to reach sick and injured
    • UN rights office appeals to Sri Lanka for calm during planned protest
    • Afghanistan: UN Human Rights Council urges Taliban to reverse restrictions on girls and women 

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    • Ukraine is struggling now but winter will be even worse, Grandi warns
    • 84 million children to miss out on schooling by 2030: UNESCO
    • Human Rights Council enters resolutions finale

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    • UN condemnation over latest MINUSMA deaths following attack in Mali
    • WHO chief urges Pfizer to make COVID oral antiviral ‘available quickly’
    • Brazil killings, evidence that police reforms are needed: UN experts

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    • Ukraine reconstruction must start now, says UN chief
    • $68.4 million appeal launched to help Central African Republic: WFP
    • EU States urged to end child detention

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    • New Libya mass graves under human rights spotlight
    • Environment laws crucial to combat irresponsible business activity
    • Carribean at ‘ground zero’ for climate change: UN chief

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    • Women suicide alert in Afghanistan
    • Lebanon’s deepening crisis is affecting ‘everyone, everywhere’, warns top UN official
    • After Roe v Wade, rights experts urge US to sign women’s Convention

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    • Ethiopia human rights record under spotlight
    • Ukraine needs still massive, aid access still blocke
    • Monkeypox diagnostics boost in Africa
    • Libya talks: progress, but elections deal yet to be clinched

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    • Deadly migrant Morocco to Spain route probe needed: OHCHR
    • Afghanistan quake appeal: OCHA seeks $110 million
    • UN-led Libya constitution talks resume in Geneva

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    • ‘Mass hunger and starvation’, wrong in 21st century: UN chief
    • Life-saving relief continues to reach quake-hit eastern Afghanistan
    • Shireen Abu Akleh: fatal shot came from Israeli gun – OHCHR

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    • WFP deploys food and logistics equipment to quake-hit Afghanistan
    • End targeting of Ukraine’s cultural sites, urges UNESCO
    • Global hunger crisis pushing one child into severe malnutrition every minute    

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    • Greece: Migration policies riding roughshod over human rights
    • Iran urged to call off amputations: OHCHR
    • Moving towards a low carbon future

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    • WHO to hold emergency Monkeypox meeting
    • Key biodiversity talks begin in Nairobi – UNEP
    • Nigeria’s emergency will get worse without extra funding: OCHA

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    • Ben Stiller’s message of solidarity on World Refugee Day: UNHCR
    • WFP announces further ration cuts for food insecure communities
    • Mali: Attack against UN peacekeepers claims life of one ‘blue helmet’

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    • Urgent support needed for 14,000 who fled following Burkina Faso massacre
    • Nearly one billion people have a mental disorder: WHO
    • Early heatwave in Europe is taste of things to come

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    • Forced displacement numbers exceed 100 million, says UNHCR
    • Ireland leads push for explosive weapons curb in urban warfare settings
    • Just 6 per cent of domestic workers have full social protection, says ILO

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    • UN’s Bachelet echoes concern over Ukraine orphans ‘deported’ to Russia for adoption
    • Myanmar: international community must stand united in ending repression, says UN rights chief
    • Tanzania: more violence feared over bid to evict Maasai from ancestral lands
    • South Sudan: WFP forced to cut aid to 1.7 million 
    • Rising food insecurity drives mass migration in Latin America, WFP warns

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    • Ukraine and global security, tests for all of us, says UN rights chief
    • Afghanistan: $195 million lifesaving aid package for smallholder farmers
    • UN releases $1.7 million to support cholera epidemic response in Cameroon

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    • Death sentence for Ukraine foreign fighters is a war crime: UN rights office
    • Mediterranean Sea journeys for migrants have grown more deadly: UNHCR
    • New 130km/hr speed limit for self-driving cars set to come into force

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    • Developing nations miss out on global investment rebound in 2021: UNCTAD
    • Sri Lanka crisis: UN calls for over $47 million for lifesaving assistance
    • World’s most vulnerable nations now paying even more for less food: FAO

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    • UN’s Guterres urges solutions to ‘vicious cycle of rising prices’
    • Food exports must keep flowing worldwide, FAO chief urges
    • Monkeypox infections pass 1,000 mark in non-endemic countries: WHO

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    • Nigeria: Guterres condemns ‘heinous’ church attack which left dozens dead
    • Somalia crisis sees starving children buried by roadside as parents seek help
    • Ukraine cholera alert can’t yet be confirmed, says UN health agency

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    • IAEA gravely concerned over nuclear safety at Russian-held Ukraine plant
    • Nearly 50 dead following Bangladesh fire, UN labour agency ‘deeply saddened’
    • Asia-Pacific countries endorse Regional Plan of Action on sand and dust storms

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