News in Brief

The Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades.
Photo: UNEP

News in Brief 16 September 2019

16 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Ozone on track to heal completely in our lifetime
  • Thousands displaced in Asia Pacific
  • Sexual violence still going unpunished in South Sudan
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The UN World Food Programme launched its biggest rapid food response following heavy rains and flash flooding in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and host communities.
WFP/Nihab Rahman

News in Brief 13 September 2019

13 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Monsoon rains flatten Rohingya shelters
  • 3.9 million in Mali need humanitarian help 
  • ‘Landmark’ malaria vaccine launches in Kenya 
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Beit Hadassah Settlement in H2 area in Hebron, West Bank.
UNRWA/Marwan Baghdadi

News in Brief 12 September 2019

12 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Guterres on West Bank annexation plan
  • Immunization gap statement-- UN Health Agency
  • Protestor rights in China/Hong Kong
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Eight month-old boy is being treated for severe malnutrition in Al Sabbah Children’s Hospital in Juba, South Sudan. (2018)
© UNICEF/Sebastian Rich

News in Brief 11 September 2019

11 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Food insecurity plagues South Sudan
  • UNRWA chief appeals to Arab League for support
  • Mining should boost development and human rights in Mongolia: UN expert
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Students protest in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. (file July 2018)
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News in Brief 10 September 2019

10 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Nicaragua 'crisis' a major concern, warns Bachelet
  • Rohingya refugees face 'worst impact of year' amidst monsoons
  • Hundreds of Libya detainees to be evacuated to Rwanda
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Nine-year-old Acnayeli (center) fled violence in Venezuela and lives now with her mother and sister in in Cucuta, Colombia. (April 2019)
©UNICEF/Arcos

News in Brief 9 September 2019

9 September 2019
News in Brief

 

  • Climate change is undermining human rights, warns Bachelet
  • Human rights in Venezuela, suffer 'devastating toll'
  • Health agency pledges $3.5 million to Dorian survivors
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A woman brings a child to a vaccination site in Aden, Yemen during a UNICEF-supported Measles and Rubella vaccination campaign on 11 February 2019.
©UNICEF/Mahmood Fadhel

News in Brief 6 September 2019

6 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Yemen funding crisis threatens reproductive health nationwide 
  • Dorian death toll in Bahamas likely to rise, thousands still missing
  • UN initiative in Mali to ease communal tensions
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Reading in the mobile era.
World Bank/Simone D. McCourtie

News in Brief 5 September 2019

5 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Facebook commits to stem misinformation on vaccines
  • ‘Digital divide’ means technological advances not shared by all
  • Better harvests, but higher food prices leave Syrians hungry
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Children in a pre-primary class at Tahouak School in Lao PDR eat nutritious food during their lunch break. (14 March 2019)
© UNICEF/Bart Verweij

News in Brief 4 September 2019

4 September 2019
News in Brief
  • 3.7 million lives could be saved by 2025, through better nutrition--WHO
  • A third of young people report being a victim of online bullying--UN poll
  • ‘Climate of fear everywhere’ in Burundi-- UN rights experts 
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A graphic visualization of Hurricane Dorian over the Bahamas.
windy.com

News in Brief 3 September 2019

3 September 2019
News in Brief
  • UN begins Bahamas aid operation for Hurricane Dorian survivors
  • Nowhere safe to hide in Yemen: UN expert
  • Brexit could lose UK billions in exports - UNCTAD
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