News in Brief

Microfilmed documents, part of the UN War Crimes Commission Records (1943 – 1949), at the United Nations Archives in New York.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

News in Brief 17 July 2019

17 July 2019
News in Brief
  • It’s time to find and arrest remaining war crimes fugitives – UN prosecutor
  • Politicization of migrant ‘crisis’ in Hungary making them scapegoats, rights expert warns
  • Ethnic Russians reach out to other indigenous groups at UN forum
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Health workers come to visit mother and daughter, in the quarantine area of the Ebola Teatment Centre of Butembo, North-Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (March 2019).
UNICEF/Tremeau

News in Brief 16 July 2019

16 July 2019
News in Brief
  • Ebola emergency meeting to go ahead as UNICEF warns of higher risk to very youngest children
  • Small island communities face combat between hunger and obesity 
  • Yemen’s warring sides agree to reinforce ceasefire on key Red Sea port
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Vaccinations to contain a severe measles outbreak are taking place in the Bunia Camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (July 2019)
© UNICEF/Marixie Mercado

News in Brief 15 July 2019

15 July 2019
News in Brief
  • Over 820 million people suffering from hunger, new UN report reveals
  • ‘Complacency’ a factor in stagnation of global vaccination rates, warn UN health chiefs
  • We won’t get to zero cases of Ebola without a big scale-up in funding, warns UN emergency relief chief
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UN vehicle on mission to Rukban, Syria.
OCHA/Fadwa Baroud

News in Brief 12 July 2019

12 July 2019
News in Brief
  • UN’s Guterres condemns ongoing airstrikes on Syria’s hospitals, medical workers
  • UN human rights office alarm over death sentences for 30 men in Houthi-held Sana’a
  • Human Rights Council session votes to probe Philippines’ deadly ‘war on drugs’
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Vaccinations to contain a severe measles outbreak are taking place in the Bunia Camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (July 2019)
© UNICEF/Marixie Mercado

News in Brief 11 July 2019

11 July 2019
News in Brief
  • Mass measles vaccination campaign begins in Ebola-hit DR Congo province 
  • UN agency describes refugees’ ‘misery’ in Bangladesh as monsoon rains continue 
  • Countries and companies have a role in protecting freedom of expression, says rights expert 
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Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the African Regional High-Level Conference on Counter Terrorism and Prevention of Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism. (10 July 2019)
UNEP/Duncan Moore

News in Brief 10 July 2019

10 July 2019
News in Brief
  • UN chief briefs top counter-terrorism conference in Kenya
  • Rohingya refugees 'must' get Myanmar citizenship rights
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Kayenat, 12, feels happy to be sitting outside her school classroom as she smiles for the camera at the UNICEF-supported Zangora Community Based Education (CBE) cluster, Surkhrod District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (10 April 2019)
© UNICEF/Marko Kokic

News in Brief 09 July 2019

9 July 2019
News in Brief
  • 2030 education goal, unrealistic, UNESCO warns
  • New Essential Medicines List includes groundbreaking treatments
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Ammunition for small arms and other unexploded ordnance, stored at a secure location in Mali, prior to their safe disposal.
MINUSMA/Marco Dormino

News in Brief 08 July 2019

8 July 2019
News in Brief
  • India and Pakistan failing to address Kashmir human rights concerns
  • Homicide killing far more people than armed conflict
  • Neo-Nazi groups seeking to recruit children online
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The aftermath of the devastating airstrike on the Tajoura Detention Centre, in the suburbs of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on 2 July.
IOM/Moad Laswed

News in Brief 05 July 2019

5 July 2019
News in Brief
  • Six children among fatalities after Libya detention centre bombings
  • Dozens of lives lost as Mediterranean migrant vessel capsizes
  • Monsoon rains wreak havoc in Bangladesh camps
  • 'Time and space' needed for Venezuela reforms: Bachelet
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In Mariinka, eastern Ukraine, evacuation drills and learning how to take cover in the school’s underground bomb shelter have become part of students’ education.
© UNICEF/UN0300569/Filippov

News in Brief 04 July 2019

4 July 2019
News in Brief
  • Millions risk being cut off from safe water as hostilities escalate in Eastern Ukraine – UNICEF  
  • WFP scales up assistance to an additional 12,000 non-refugees in Gaza
  • Pay packet inequality growing worldwide, says new UN report
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