Carnage must stop in northwest Syria demands Lowcock, as attacks intensify

18 July 2019
Peace and Security
UNICEF/Aaref Watad

After 80 days of intensifying attacks, many on health facilities, “the carnage must stop” in northwest Syria, said the UN relief chief on Thursday, noting that more than 70 civilians had been killed this month alone across the last rebel-held enclave of the country.

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Yemen: UN Envoy ‘guilty’ of optimistic hope that war is ‘nearing the end’

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World ‘off track’ to meet most Sustainable Development Goals on hunger, food security and nutrition

UNICEF/Thomas Nybo

Monsoon rains turn millions of children’s lives ‘upside down’ across South Asia

Climate Change

Heavy rainfall, severe flooding and landslides across Nepal, India and Bangladesh have killed at least 93 children, and put the lives of millions more at risk, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which is “responding urgently”.

ESCAP/Taufan Wijaya

Asia and Pacific on course to miss all Sustainable Development Goals, says UN region chief

SDGs

Unless progress is accelerated, Asia and the Pacific are on course to miss all of the 17 Goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Executive Secretary of the UN regional commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), told UN News at the Organization's Headquarters on Wednesday.

Finnish Red Cross/Maria Santto

DR Congo Ebola outbreak now an international Public Health Emergency, UN health agency declares

Health

The second worst Ebola outbreak of all time, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was officially declared an international Public Health Emergency of International Concern on Wednesday, with the head of the World Health Organization calling for countries to ‘take notice and redouble our efforts”.

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‘Young people care about peace’: UN Youth Envoy delivers key message to Security Council

Peace and Security

After visiting refugee camps in Jordan, UN-backed schools in Gaza, municipalities in Kosovo and Youth Councils in Denmark, the UN’s Youth Envoy visited the Security Council on Wednesday with a simple message from the field that “young people care about peace”.

UNICEF/Tremeau

Wednesday’s Daily Brief: Ebola now an international Public Health Emergency, young peacemakers, defining moment for Sudan, war crimes fugitives, migrant ‘crisis’ in Hungary

Health

In today’s Daily Brief: the DR Congo Ebola outbreak is officially declared an international Public Health Emergency; UN Youth Envoy briefs Security Council; an ‘exciting and potentially defining’ moment for Sudan, says UN adviser; more cooperation’s needed to secure arrest of war crimes fugitives; and politicizing the migrant ‘crisis’ in Hungary

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Politicization of migrant ‘crisis’ in Hungary making them scapegoats, independent UN human rights expert warns 

International Court of Justice orders Pakistan to review death penalty for Indian accused of spying

Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief

25 years after population conference, women still face challenges to ‘well-being and human rights’, says UN chief

‘Severe’ new US asylum restrictions will put vulnerable families at risk, UN refugee agency says

‘Greater urgency’ needed in fight against HIV/AIDS, warns UN agency, amidst $1 billion investment cuts

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