News in Brief

Humanitarian partners distribute emergency assistance in Ibrahim Khalil village in Iraq.
OCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief 17 March 2020

17 March 2020
News in Brief
  • Millions of people in crises will need UN humanitarian aid in midst of COVID-19 pandemic 
  • New locust swarms add to South Sudan food hardship 
  • UN chief condemns attacks on peacekeepers in Central African Republic, urges probe 
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) speaks at a press conference at the UN Office in Geneva (file photo).
UN Photo/Elma Okic

News in Brief 16 March 2020

16 March 2020
News in Brief
  • Tedros renews call to countries to ‘test, test, test’ all cases of suspected infection 
  • COVID-19: WFP sends lifesaving medical equipment to worst-hit Chinese province 
  • Rights experts urge countries to respect people’s rights when tackling virus 
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Distribution of Super Cereal to IDP families that are temporarily hosted in schools like the Eduardo Mondlane primary school in Beira that hosts 208 displaced families.
WFP/Rein Skullerud

News in Brief 13 March 2020

13 March 2020
News in Brief
  • COVID-19: Europe is the new virus hotspot, says WHO 
  • As Syrian conflict enters 10th year, ‘brutal truth’ is there is little protection for families  
  • Central Mozambique a year ago are facing devastating hardship 
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A fever is one of the symptoms of coronavirus
Unsplash/Matteo Fusco

News in Brief 12 March 2020

12 March 2020
News in Brief
  • Countries free of COVID-19 must be better prepared
  • Yemen at ‘critical juncture’
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In this file photo, UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Mark Lowcock (r) meets with a group of Syrian drivers on the Turkish side of the two countries' common border.
OCHA/David Swanson

News in Brief 11 March 2020

11 March 2020
News in Brief
  • A decade of conflict in Syria 
  • Brazilian mountain farmers honoured 
  • Educate children in their mother tongue – UN expert 
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Extreme weather has led to floods in countries like Slovenia.
WMO/Matej Štegar

News in Brief 10 March 2020

10 March 2020
News in Brief
  • Flagship UN study shows accelerating climate change 
  • Nicaragua: after two years of crisis, more than 100,000 have fled 
  • Burundi heads to elections as rights concerns persist 
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Young women leave school in the town of Bol in Chad after classes.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 9 March 2020

9 March 2020
News in Brief
  • ‘Yawning gender power gap’: UN chief
  • ‘Serious rights violations’ in Iran: UN rights expert
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Jardim Constantino in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
UN News/Ana Carmo

News in Brief 6 March 2020

6 March 2020
News in Brief
  • COVID-19: countries, businesses must protect people as virus spreads, urges UN rights chief 
  • Europe sees warmest winter on record – UN weather agency 
  • Americas first region to show more than 30 per cent of women parliamentarians – IPU  
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Javier Perez de Cuellar addresses the UN General Assembly in New York after being appointed to a second five-year term, beginning on 1 January 1987.
UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata

News in Brief 5 March 2020

5 March 2020
News in Brief

 - Tributes pour in for former UN chief Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

 - 290 million students out of school amid COVID-19 measures 

 - Lower food prices linked to coronavirus concerns 

 - Young women and girls ‘still most at risk from HIV’

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Girls work at a shared desk during a lesson at Omar Ben al-Khattab School in the town of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. (file)
© UNICEF/UNI6786/El Baba

News in Brief 4 March 2020

4 March 2020
News in Brief

- Progress aside, world still a violent place for girls and women: UN report

- Iraq religious leaders working to prevent COVID-19 spread

- Countdown to end of Ebola underway in DR Congo 

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