News in Brief 31 January 2022
- Focus on diplomatic solutions to end Ukraine crisis, DiCarlo urges
- UN chief stands in solidarity with Myanmar’s people, a year after coup
- WHO calls for international boost to tackle neglected tropical diseases
Myanmar: Time to restore democracy, says UN rights chief
UNAMI raises alarm over recent attacks in Iraq
UNICEF chief repeats call to keep school open
Pinchas Gutter is from Łódź, Poland, where he enjoyed a very happy childhood before the Second World War. He survived six different Nazi concentration camps – a life forever changed by the traumatic events of the Holocaust.
A dusty old suitcase that lay undiscovered for decades in a backyard shed in Australia, has revealed an astonishing story of friendship, courage and resistance to the Nazi regime and its extermination camps, where millions of Jews were systematically murdered during the Second World War.
The Chair of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), former Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete, says that although the key objective is helping disadvantaged children everywhere get access to quality schooling, supporting girls is their top priority.
Afghanistan ‘hanging by a thread’, Guterres tells Security Council
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Tonga: Access to safe water still major concern
UN Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on Afghanistan, on Wednesday, 26 January 2022.
‘No free ride’ for COVID-19: WHO’s Tedros
Misinformation threat to inoculation campaigns
Syria: Condemnation for ISIL detention centre attack