News in Brief

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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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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3'13"
A World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola vaccination team works in Butembo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in January 2019.
WHO/Lindsay Mackenzie

News in Brief 01 March 2019

1 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Ebola treatment centre attacks likely to hamper virus control effort: WHO
  • Thousands continue to flee ISIL’s last stand in Syria’s Deir-ez-Zor
  • Measles resurgence fuelled by just 10 countries, warns UNICEF
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Teenage girl in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, kneels beside her mother and brothers' graves.
UNICEF/Eyad El Baba

News in Brief 28 February 2019

28 February 2019
News in Brief
  • Gaza probe finds ‘reasonable grounds’ Israeli forces committed international human rights violations
  • Safe return of Syrians ‘completely illusory’
  • ‘Backlash against human rights’ today
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The port of Hudaydah in war-torn Yemen is one of the few lifelines for humanitarian aid and fuel into the country. 17 April 2017.
UN OCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 27 February 2019

27 February 2019
News in Brief
  • Positive news for desperate Yemenis as UN accesses Hudaydah food stores
  • Millions benefit from West Africa bid to eradicate statelessness: UNHCR
  • Lifesaving food airlifts in Central African Republic to help 18,000 people
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Saba recovers from malnutrition. Here, portraited with her mother in the Alzaidiah health center. Saba lives with her parents, three brothers and six sisters. They are all at risk of malnutrition due to the war and lack of a source of income for the family to afford full meals.
© UNICEF/UN0276450/Almahbashi

News in Brief 26 February 2019

26 February 2019
News in Brief
  • $2.6 billion pledged to help millions of wartorn Yemenis
  • Ebola response risks slowing amid massive funding shortages
  • UN’s emergency aid chief travels to Zimbabwe, Malawi amid rising food insecurity
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2'54"
Secretary-General António Guterres during press conference in Geneva.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

News in Brief 25 February 2019

25 February 2019
News in Brief
  • People’s rights under fire, UN chief tells the Human Rights Council
  • Around 6,000 more mostly women and children flee last ISIL terrorist stronghold in Syria
  • UN experts ‘deplore’ executions of nine in Egypt who ‘confessed under torture’
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3'7"
Unfinished buildings in downtown Cairo.
World Bank/Kim Eun Yeul

News in Brief 22 February 2019

22 February 2019
News in Brief
  • UN human rights office appeal to Egypt amid death row executions
  • Some 260,000 South Sudanese face food insecurity “catastrophe”, UN agencies warn
  • $4.2 billion urgently needed to save Yemen’s families from ‘horrific’ plight
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4'7"
Pupils at the Jabalia Elementary Girls School in Gaza are taught in their mother tongue. (file October 2014)
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 21 February 2019

21 February 2019
News in Brief
  • Papua violence and ‘snake’ interrogation condemned by human rights experts
  • ‘Bring decolonization to a successful conclusion’ UN Chief
  • Bengalis celebrate protection of their culture on International Mother Language Day
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