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A woman walks past sandbags piled for defensive protection, in Odessa, Ukraine.

© UNICEF/Siegfried Modola

News in Brief 13 July 2022

13 July 2022

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

Trucks carrying food assistance cross the Turkish border into Syria. (file photo)

OCHA/David Swanson

News in Brief 12 July 2022

12 July 2022

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

An 11-year-old girl recovers at a hospital in Lviv after losing her legs in a missile attack at Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine.

© UNICEF/Lviv Territorial Medical Union Hospital

News in Brief 8 July 2022

8 July 2022

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

High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi (centre) visits a damaged neighbourhood in Irpin, Ukraine.

© UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

News in Brief 7 July 2022

7 July 2022

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

Forces of the UN Peacekeeping mission in Mali receive their blue berets in Bamako.

MINUSMA/Blagoje Grujic

News in Brief 6 July 2022

6 July 2022

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

WFP distribute food to displaced people in Batangafo in the Central African Republic. (file)

© WFP/Bruno Djoyo

News in Brief 5 July 2022

5 July 2022

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

In Benghazi, Libya, widespread destruction is a reminder of years of conflict.

© UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 4 July 2022

4 July 2022

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

Women in a waiting room of a clinic in Afghanistan.

© UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

News in Brief 1 July 2022

1 July 2022

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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