First Person: Rohingya refugees traumatized again, after devastating camp fire

25 April 2021
Human Rights
IOM/Mashrif Abdullah Al

A Rohingya refugee and volunteer for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has been telling UN News how his community has been “once again traumatized” as a result of a massive fire which swept through the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh in March, killing at least 11 people and making more than 45,000 homeless.

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Libya shipwreck claims 130 lives despite SOS calls, as UN agencies call for urgent action

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A shipwreck off the Libyan coast has reportedly claimed the lives of 130 people, despite SOS calls for help, the UN migration agency IOM said on Friday. 

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ECOSOC chief calls for financial support for small island developing states

Economic Development

Small island developing states (SIDS) must receive financial and international support if they are to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Munir Akram, said on Friday. 

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UN-led aid convoy brings 23 tonnes of humanitarian goods across contact line in east Ukraine

Humanitarian Aid

Twenty-three tonnes of urgently needed aid items have reached the eastern Ukrainian province around Donetsk, after a humanitarian convoy crossed the contact line into non-Government-controlled territory, the UN said on Friday. 

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World Book and Copyright Day celebrates ‘fundamental importance’ of literature

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At a period of global uncertainty and confinement, books open the door to freedom, transporting readers beyond time and borders, the head of the UN’s educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, said on Friday. 

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The planet’s on ‘red alert’ UN chief warns leaders at President Biden’s climate summit

Climate and Environment

World leaders must act now and put the planet on a green path because “we are at the verge of the abyss”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday in his address to the virtual climate summit convened by United States President Joseph Biden. 

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