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WFP food distribution to people affected by Cyclone Mocha in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

© WFP/Aung Khaing Moe

News in Brief 30 June 2023

30 June 2023

Myanmar: Military’s obstruction of humanitarian aid could be international crime
Cholera and measles rampant in eastern DRC as health system nears collapse
Job guarantee programmes needed to end poverty: top rights expert

On 2 May 2023, a parent awaits healthcare services at Fashir Reproductive health centre in Sudan. The centre received WASH and health supplies from UNICEF

© Mohamed Zakaria/UNICEF

News in Brief 29 June 2023

29 June 2023

Universal access to safer water, sanitation and hygiene could save 1.4 million lives: WHO
UN-brokered grain and fertilizer accord vital to help alleviate crippling cost-of-living crisis: UNCTAD chief
12-month extension of Syria cross-border aid corridor ‘a critical step’ UN relief chief

Children stand in a flood water in Borno State, Nigeria. Many children there suffer from acute malnutrition.

© UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin

News in Brief 28 June 2023

28 June 2023

Northeastern Nigeria: malnourished children fighting for their lives
Top rights expert proposes legal status for millions displaced by climate change
Limiting asylum access leads to rise in trafficking risks: rights expert

The war in Ukraine is inflicting a heavy toll on both the country's people and infrastructure.

© UNDP/Oleksandr Ratushniak

News in Brief 27 June 2023

27 June 2023

Ukraine: Russian forces face new allegations of arbitrary detention, torture of civilians
Sudan displacement higher than projected, humanitarian access thwarted
Afghanistan: rise in suicide attacks against civilians since Taliban takeover

Counterfeit drugs at a market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

IRIN/Brahima Ouedraogo

News in Brief 26 June 2023

26 June 2023

Stop stigmatizing drug users and focus on treatment, rehabilitation: Guterres
Horn of Africa hunger emergency: 60 million food insecure
Paths to regularization crucial so migrants can enjoy basic human rights

Tens of thousands of refugees have arrived in Chad from Sudan.

© UNHCR/Aristophane Ngargoune

News in Brief 23 June 2023

23 June 2023

UN welcomes sentencing of ISIL member for Yazidi genocide
Tunisia must ‘change course’ amid media freedom crackdown: UN rights chief
Sudan update: 2.5 million displaced by fighting

A Palestine refugee from Lebanon receives medical care at an UNRWA-supported health centre.

© UNRWA/Maysoun Mustafa

News in Brief 22 June 2023

22 June 2023

Global financial system must evolve to serve the most vulnerable: Guterres
UN chief condemns violence against civilians in Occupied Palestinian Territory
Technology can jeopardize right to health by exposing individuals’ sensitive data: top rights expert

The city center of Kharkov.

Maxim Rosenfeld

News in Brief 21 June 2023

21 June 2023

Ukraine: ‘Marshall Plan’ approach needed to stop landmines from blighting economy: UNDP
Safe, voluntary returns of Rohingya to Myanmar remain impossible, warns UN rights office
Belize certified malaria-free by WHO

South Sudanese refugee children walk home together after school in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Uganda. (file)

© UNICEF/Jiro Ose

News in Brief 20 June 2023

20 June 2023

World Refugee Day: UN leaders call for solidarity and inclusion amid record displacement
DRC: Lives shattered by violence and hunger in ‘forgotten crisis’: WFP
Lebanon’s economic meltdown leaves cash-strapped families at breaking point

In Port Sudan, emergency food packages are distributed to people fleeing fighting in Khartoum.

© WFP/Mohamed Elamin

News in Brief 19 June 2023

19 June 2023

Sudan: Guterres calls on donors to step up aid response
‘Vital’ human rights cooperation must be above the fray of politics: UN rights chief
Europe is world’s fastest-warming continent: WMO

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