Wednesday's Daily Brief: Women boost work profits, saving biodiversity, UK loses Chagos Islands vote, Gaza funding, malaria-free in Argentina, Algeria

22 May 2019
Peace and Security
ILO/Kevin Cassidy

Today's top stories include: boosting profits at work by hiring more women leaders; saving biodiversity to beat climate change; General Assembly condemns UK over Chagos Islands; just a month of funding left for Gaza; celebrating malaria-free Algeria and Argentina; and justice experts dicuss how best to fight hate crime. 

With potential to boost profits by up to 20 per cent, a woman’s place is at work, says UN labour agency

Palestine refugees’ relief chief warns Security Council money to fund Gaza operations will run out in mid-June

Preserving biodiversity vital to reverse tide of climate change, UN stresses on International Day 

UN highlights need to solve growing burden of forcibly displaced Africans

Iraq needs support to ‘leave violent past behind’, says UN envoy as Security Council extends UN mission for one year

OCHA/Otto Bakano

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Libya civil war, African displacement, global trade tensions, terrorists’ children ‘secretly detained’, and more

Peace and Security

Tuesday’s stories include: Libya facing “permanent division”, regional war; Africa event highlights forcible displacement; terrorists’ children ‘secretly detained’ in Syria; Venezuelans need protection; global trade tensions rise.

UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Libya on verge of civil war, threatening ‘permanent division’, top UN official warns Security Council

Peace and Security

The damage done to Libya will already take “years to mend” but unless fighting around the capital Tripoli stops, the country risks “descending into a civil war which could lead to the permanent division of the country”.

World Bank/Chhor Sokunthea

Amidst high trade tensions and policy uncertainty, UN cuts economic growth forecast

Economic Development

Against a backdrop of unresolved trade tensions, high international policy uncertainty and softening business confidence, the UN on Tuesday announced a broad-based slowdown in the global economy and cut its growth predictions. 

UNICEF/Soulaiman (file)

Children of ISIL terrorists likely held in ‘secret detention facilities’, UN human rights office warns

Human Rights

In Syria, it is suspected that children whose fathers fought for terrorist group ISIL are being held in unidentified “settlements” and “secret detention facilities” away from their mothers, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday.

UNICEF/Filippov

Children in crisis-torn eastern Ukraine ‘too terrified to learn’ amid spike in attacks on schools

Humanitarian Aid

Schoolchildren are bearing long-lasting mental and physical scars of eastern Ukraine’s conflict, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday, as the agency warned of an “alarming” increase in attacks on schools during the first four months of 2019.

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Hunger in Yemen: WFP considers aid suspension in face of repeated interference by some Houthi leaders

Monday’s Daily Brief: WFP mulls ‘last resort’ Yemen aid suspension, top peacekeeping awardee announced, abuzz over Bee Day, Ebola threat ‘very high’

On World Bee day, human activity blamed for falling pollinator numbers

Sacrifice of fallen 'blue helmet' to be honoured with UN’s highest peacekeeping award

Cambodia: Giving back to UN peacekeeping

FROM THE FIELD: Saving the tree kangaroos of Papua New Guinea

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