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News in Brief 30 June 2022

  • 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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UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 27 June 2022

  • UN chief urges all nations to save the ocean at key conference in Portugal
  • Ukraine Donbas situation ‘dire’ and deteriorating: OCHA
  • Women at far greater risk of sexual violence than men from climate change: Bachelet
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© WFP/Arete/Siegfried Modola

News in Brief 24 June 2022

  • ‘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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© UNICEF Afghanistan

News in Brief 23 June 2022

  • 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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WFP/Marco Frattini

News in Brief 20 June 2022

  • 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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© WFP/Cheick Omar Bandaogo

News in Brief 17 June 2022

  • 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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© UNHCR/Antonia Vadala

News in Brief 16 June 2022

  • 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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