News in Brief

Students in grades 1 to 6 have restarted school in Herat, Afgahnistan, but girls in grades 7-12 have not been attending classes.
© UNICEF/Sayed Bidel

News in Brief 24 September 2021

24 September 2021
News in Brief
  • COVID19 virus ‘blocker’ treatment gets WHO green light 
  • Situation in Belarus has continued to worsen in 2021, says UN rights chief 
  • Taliban can’t rule Afghanistan without us women, says mayor who fled Kabul 
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Yangon, Myanmar.
Asian Development Bank/Lester Ledesma

News in Brief 23 September 2021

23 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Myanmar crisis escalating towards civil war, warns UN rights chief  
  • G20 need to scale up food aid to Afghanistan’s rural population 
  • South Sudan plagued by violence and corruption, Human Rights Council hears 
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A one-year-old boy is treated for malnutrition at a health centre in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
© UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene

News in Brief 22 September 2021

22 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan’s health care system on brink of collapse: Tedros 
  • US-China commitments on climate action welcomed 
  • Children’s diets did not improve in last decade, ‘could get much worse’ 
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As part of the Fridays for Future school strikes, youth protest for climate action in Geneva in 2019. (file)
ICAN/Lucero Oyarzun

News in Brief 21 September 2021

21 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Guterres: ‘common responsibility’ to save planet for future generations 
  • UN rights office seriously concerned over Haiti migrant returns from US 
  • UNHCR welcomes US plan to increase refugee resettlement 
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Sustainable cities are helping in the battle against climate change.
Unsplash/chuttersnap

News in Brief 20 September 2021

20 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Getting sustainability back on track, only way to save planet: Guterres
  • Guterres condemns Yemen executions by Houthis  
  • R&D investment rose in many areas during COVID: UN report 
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From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.
WMO/Shravan Regret Iyer

News in Brief 17 September 2021

17 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Paris climate deal could go up in smoke without action: Guterres
  • Lebanon crisis needs international assistance urgently: WHO chief 
  • Refugees face dire consequences from COVID-19 underfunding 
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Climate change increases the risk of hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.
Unsplash/Mikhail Serdyukov

News in Brief 16 September 2021

16 September 2021
News in Brief
  • World at ‘tipping point’ for action on emissions and climate change 
  • Torture, killings, lawlessness, still blight Burundi’s rights record 
  • Venezuela: judiciary’s independence ‘deeply eroded’, warns rights probe  
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A truck carrying goods crosses the Armenian border. (file)
World Bank/Vigen Sargsyan

News in Brief 15 September 2021

15 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Global economy projected to show fastest growth in 50 years 
  • UN deputy chief condemns Mogadishu suicide bombing 
  • Cluster bomb victims rise, despite progress in eliminating weapons 
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Food supplies are lined up for distribution to people facing hunger and in need of humanitarian assistance in Herat in western Afghanistan.
© WFP

News in Brief 14 September 2021

14 September 2021
News in Brief

 

  • First humanitarian flight to Kabul marks ‘turning point’: WFP 
  • After 10 years of war in Syria, siege tactics make their return 
  • Unremitting suffering in Yemen in spotlight at Human Rights Council 
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A woman walks in Badakhshan, a province located in the farthest north-eastern part of Afghanistan.
Unsplash/Joel Heard

News in Brief 13 September 2021

13 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Support Afghans in their most perilous hour, urges UN’s Guterres  
  • Bachelet warns of deteriorating human rights situation in Afghanistan 
  • Nuclear watchdog announces deal with Iran over surveillance  
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