News in Brief

Cereal stored in Dhubab, Taiz Gobernorate, in Yemen. The World Food Programme (WFP) gained access for the first time in five months to the large Red Sea Mills grain silo in Hudaydah, on 27 February.
Giles Clarke/OCHA

News in Brief 15 March 2019

15 March 2019
News in Brief

* First aid in nine months unloaded at key port in Yemen

* Response to Tropical Cyclone Idai ramps up as 1.5 million forced to flee

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People are slowly returning to the devastated Old City of Homs, in Syria.
UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

News in Brief 14 March 2019

14 March 2019
News in Brief
  • More violence in Idlib frames Brussels Syria pledging conference
  • Build sustainable societies, by switching to Green initiatives
  • Amend drug laws to eliminate racial discrimination, UN experts say
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2'48"
A boy waiting for his school bus in the Songinokhairkhan district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where air pollution levels are dangerously high.
© UNICEF/Mungunkhishig Batbaatar

News in Brief 13 March 2019

13 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Damage to the planet poses growing risk to human health
  • 260,000 children in DRC facing acute malnutrition
  • Syria still living on ‘razor edge’
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Yasmin Sooka, Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan present his report at a 40th Session of the Human Rights Council.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

News in Brief 12 March 2019

12 March 2019
News in Brief
  • In South Sudan, mothers teaching daughters ‘safer’ ways to survive rape
  • DR Congo: ‘New waves of violence’ likely, UN warns, unless State acts to prevent intercommunal reprisals
  • 2020 elections in Burundi could have major impact on human rights, says UN panel
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The United Nations flag flies at half-mast at UN Headquarters in New York in memory of the people who died in an Ethiopian Airlines crash accident in Ethiopia on 10 March 2019.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

News in Brief 11 March 2019

11 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN Secretary-General leads tributes to UN workers who died in Ethiopia crash
  • UN chief sends condolences to families of Malawi flood victims
  • Human Rights Council-appointed expert calls for Myanmar investigation
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Colombia. Desperate Venezuelans cross border on foot.
UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo

News in Brief 8 March 2019

8 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN rights team officially invited to Venezuela, paves way for High Commissioner
  • UNHCR opens reception centre in Colombia for vulnerable Venezuelans
  • We need to break down stereotypes, star of Oscar-winning movie Roma
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Employees at Rich Factory, in Egypt, carefully sew underwear. Rich is a small business where the majority of the employees are young women from the neighborhood.
World Bank/Dominic Chavez

News in Brief 7 March 2019

7 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Women still struggle to find a job, let alone reach the top: UN report
  • Nearly 100 civilians a week are dying in Yemen: UNHCR
  • Three in four children with disabilities left out of education in parts of Europe, Asia: UNICEF
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Five-year-old Kiara makes a sale in a commuter train car in Buenos Aires, the capital. She has been working in the Subte, the city’s mass transit system, selling hairpins and other cheap goods, since she was three years old.
UNICEF/ Sebastian Rich

News in Brief 6 March 2019

6 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Tackling gross inequalities is key to solving major global issues: UN rights chief
  • $120 million needed to provide life-saving assistance to 3.8 million in DPR Korea
  • UN-led talks on Western Sahara announced in Switzerland
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Child playing in the Barsalogho IDP site, in Burkina Faso (March 2019). Increased insecurity, violence, food crisis, floods and epidemics are among the factors that plunged Burkina Faso into a significant humanitarian crisis.
OCHA

News in Brief 5 March 2019

5 March 2019
News in Brief
  • More than 70,000 flee spike in violence in Burkina Faso in just two months
  • UN rights chief’s ‘deep regret’ at Burundi office closure
  • Growing number of women parliamentarians worldwide
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4'8"
At dawn, parents and children cross the road on their way to school in the Songinokhairkhan district, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where the air pollution level is the highest in the city.
© UNICEF/Mungunkhishig Batbaatar

News in Brief 4 March 2019

4 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Air pollution: Seven million die each year from ‘silent’ killer
  • Growing global commitment to tackle climate issues: UN environment chief
  • UN housing rights expert urges States to own up to homelessness scourge
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