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A blood smear is checked for malaria parasites at a laboratory in China.
WHO/C. McNab

News in Brief 8 December 2022

News in Brief
  • Countries held the line against malaria cases and deaths in 2021: WHO
  • 3.6 million children not at school in Ethiopia, says Education Cannot Wait
  • MPs ‘in danger’ across the world – but some good news too, IPU says in new report
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The Gateway to Freedom: International Memorial to the Underground Railroad in Detroit, Michigan, dedicated in 2001.
UN News/Matthew Wells

News in Brief 1 December 2022

News in Brief
  • Legacy of slavery ‘reverberates to this day’ says UN’s Guterres
  • FAO appeals for $1.9 billion to reach 48 million people next year
  • Africa’s advances in maternal, infant mortality face setbacks: WHO
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A mountain glacier that is shrinking due to rising temperatures and less snowfall at the Kargil District, India.
© UNICEF/Srikanth Kolari

News in Brief 29 November 2022

News in Brief
  • 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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A single-dose monkeypox vaccine vial.
© WHO/Khaled Mostafa

News in Brief 28 November 2022

News in Brief
- 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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Women and girls' lives have been turned upside down since the return of the Taliban movement to power in the last summer.
Sayed Habib Bidel/UNWomen

25 November 2022 News in Brief

News in Brief

  • 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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