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UNICEF is supporting people living in informal settlements in Lebanon with access to clean water.

© UNICEF/Fouad Choufany

News in Brief 10 November 2022

10 November 2022

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

Children are vaccinated during a polio campaign in the western region of Cameroon.

© UNICEF/Frank Dejongh

News in Brief 9 November 2022

9 November 2022

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

The rivers Chari and Logone overflow in N'Djamena, after the heaviest rainy season in Chad in thirty years.

© UNICEF/Aldjim Banyo

News in Brief 8 November 2022

8 November 2022

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

Secretary-General António Guterres at opening of COP27

UNIC Tokyo/Momoko Sato

News in Brief 7 November 2022

7 November 2022

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

In a neighbourhood in Aden, Yemen, a three-year-old girl (centre) plays with neighbourhood friends after losing her twin sister to measles.

© UNICEF/Saleh Hayyan

News in Brief 4 November 2022

4 November 2022

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

The Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in Iceland, part of a World Heritage Site, is formed naturally from melted glacial water and is perpetually growing while big blocks of ice crumble from a shrinking glacier.

UN News/Laura Quiñones

News in Brief 3 November 2022

3 November 2022

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

An unusually early and exceptionally intense heatwave has set new temperature records in Europe, posing a major threat to people's health, agriculture and the environment.

WMO Video screen shot

News in Brief 2 November 2022

2 November 2022

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

M23 fighters head towards Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

MONUSCO/Sylvain Liechti

News in Brief 1 November 2022

1 November 2022

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

A 13-year-old boy works in a mechanic's shop in Syria.

© UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

News in Brief 31 October 2022

31 October 2022

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

In South Sudan’s Unity State, the capital, Bentiu, has become an island surrounded by floodwaters.

© UNHCR/Charlotte Hallqvist

News in Brief 28 October 2022

28 October 2022

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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