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News in Brief 18 March 2022

  • Ukraine invasion: Needs keep growing with cities facing ‘fatal shortages’

  • Gamechanger HIV injection rolls out in South Africa and Brazil

  • UNHCR and partners launch $1.2 billion appeal for South Sudan refugees

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News in Brief 17 March 2022

  • UNESCO slams journalist killings, offers bullet-proof vests to local reporters

  • World must deliver support to Afghans: UN refugee chief

  • UK border reform Bill treats vulnerable newcomers like criminals: Bachelet

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News in Brief 15 March 2022

  • Ukraine war creating a child refugee almost every second: UNICEF

  • Encircled Mariupol being ‘suffocated’ as deadly bombardment continues

  • UN’s Bachelet urges action on Myanmar amid ‘spiral’ of violence

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News in Brief 14 March 2022

  • Ukraine: WHO working day and night to keep medical supply chains open

  • Chernobyl nuclear reactor latest: power ‘restored’ says UN atomic agency

  • Yemen ‘teetering on outright catastrophe’ warn UN humanitarians

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News in Brief 10 March 2022

  • ‘Lifesaving’ vaccine call for all refugees from Ukraine: WHO
  • UN’s Bachelet leads COVID-19 vaccine global equity call
  • Condemnation and solidarity from WHO’s Tedros over Ukraine hospital attack
  • Two thirds of households with children have lost income during pandemic
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News in Brief 9 March 2022

  • Ukraine war: neighbouring countries struggling to welcome influx

  • Fears grow for Syria amid rising violence, deepening humanitarian crisis

  • UNICEF provides boost to mother and child care, in northeast Nigeria

  • WHO issues new guidelines on abortion to help deliver lifesaving care

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News in Brief 8 March 2022

  • Ukraine war now ‘apocalyptic’, warn humanitarians in call for safe access

  • Tigray crisis marked by uptick in airstrikes, warns UN rights chief

  • ‘Turn the clock forward on women’s rights’: Guterres

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News in Brief 7 March 2022

  • Russia reduced Genocide Convention ‘to confetti’, Ukraine tells ICJ

  • Sudan: UN rights chief condemns ‘sharp reversal of achievements’

  • Greater investment in care could create almost 300 million jobs

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