The conflict which broke out in South Sudan between government and opposition forces in December last year has forced around two million people to flee their homes.
One of them is 45 year-old Gabriel who sought refuge with his wife and five children in the UN compound in Bor, the capital of Jonglei State.
But, in April 2014, his wife was killed when an armed mob forced its way into the compound and attacked people sheltering there.
A film looking at the provision of AIDS drugs to the world’s poorest people has been described as an intricate tale of “medicine, monopoly and malice.”
In “Fire in the Blood” Indian filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray, says that a lack of access to cheap medication has caused more than 10 million unnecessary deaths.
The film has been shown at the United Nations in Vienna, from where Mr Gray spoke to Stephanie Castro.
She began by asking him for more details about his film.
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The private sector should play an active role in respecting and promoting human rights, according to business people attending a major UN event in Geneva.
The three-day UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, which opened on Monday, has brought together more than 1,500 people from over 100 countries representing a wide cross-section of industries.
Derrick Mbatha reports.
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Liberia has met targets for treating Ebola patients and for the safe burial of people who died from the disease. That’s according to the UN’s senior official on Ebola in the West African country.
December 1st was the deadline set by the UN to isolate and treat 70 per cent of cases and to bury safely 70 per cent of the people who have died.
Close to 7000 people have succumbed to the virus in West Africa, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Torwon Sulonteh-Brown asked the UN’s Ebola Crisis Manager in Liberia, Peter Graaff, about the targets.
There has been “remarkable” progress in combating the Ebola disease in West Africa, after the number of new cases per month was reduced by half, according to senior UN officials.
Nearly 7,000 people have died from Ebola mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and more than 16,000 have been infected with the deadly virus.
December 1 was set as the target to get 70 per cent of the cases isolated and treated, and 70 per cent of the deceased safely buried within 60 days - what is called the 70-70-60 target.
Derrick Mbatha reports.
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Political will and commitment by governments and people throughout the world can make it possible to defeat hunger and malnutrition, according to a senior official of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The UN agency announced that thirteen countries have joined a growing list of nations that have made strides in combating undernourishment.
They are Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, Iran, Kiribati, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, the Philippines and Uruguay.
Women in Liberia are contracting Ebola after having sex with men who have survived the disease, according to a doctor employed by the World Health Organization.
Around 5700 people have died from the virus, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Many people are recovering.
But now a doctor working at a treatment unit outside the Liberian capital Monrovia has reported a high number of infections of women by their spouses who are Ebola survivors.
Olive Thomas asked Dr Anne Atai Omoruto to explain what’s happening.
