The Lo Valledor main wholesale market in Chile continues to provide the public during the COVID-19 pandemic with all the protective measures for them and the community.

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News in Brief 16 June 2020

16 June 2020

Trade in many developing countries projected to ‘nosedive’, warns UNCTAD
Syrian refugees resort to ever more desperate measures to resist pandemic impact
Action needed now to avoid ‘hunger pandemic’ from COVID-19 in Latin America

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Dieudonné Désiré Sougouri, the Representative of Burkina Faso addresses the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council. 15 June 2020.

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News in Brief 15 June 2020

15 June 2020

UN appalled by attack on civilians and humanitarians in Nigeria
Atomic agency launches initiative to prevent future pandemics
Human Rights Council picks up again after COVID suspension, to hold racism debate

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A displaced family in Marib, Yemen, carries a winter aid package back to their shelter.

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News in Brief 12 June 2020

12 June 2020

UNICEF: funding shortfall affecting critical water, sanitation services in Yemen
Child labour gains since 2000 ‘could be wiped out by COVID’, UN warns
UNAIDS chief adds voice to call for COVID-19 vaccine to be a ‘global public good’

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Women and children at the the Turkey-Greece border at Pazarkule.

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News in Brief 11 June 2020

11 June 2020

Alarm over reported ‘pushbacks’ from Greece at EU border with Turkey
108 million children forced to work in agriculture and rising, warns UN agency
Iconic Lake Geneva fountain returns to live-streaming after COVID-19 stoppage

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Children eat a meal at the school in Maputo Province in Mozambique.

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News in Brief 10 June 2020

10 June 2020

World facing food emergency, says UN chief in call for States to protect vulnerable
COVID-19 spotlights need for States to combat unfulfilled rights for all people, says UN-appointed expert
Zimbabwe: rights experts demand end to abductions and torture

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In Nigeria, the UN has been working with the government and others to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

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News in Brief 9 June 2020

9 June 2020

UN food agency ramps up aid to lockdown-hit Nigerians
DR Congo’s displaced face deadly consequences of chronic underfunding: UNHCR
DPR Korea: humanitarian concerns growing, says UN expert

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Staff at the Katwa Ebola treatment Unit in Butembo in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo disinfect boots and wash clothes. (August 2019)

UN Photo/Martine Perret

News in Brief 8 June 2020

8 June 2020

Emergency funding announced for DR Congo amid new Ebola outbreak
‘Once-in-a-generation’ chance to reset our link to world’s oceans: UN chief
Record levels of fish consumption show need for sustainable management: FAO

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Protesters gather in Union Square in New York City to demand justice and to protest racism in the United States following the death of George Floyd while in police custody.

UN News/Antonio Lafuente

News in Brief 5 June 2020

5 June 2020

Demonstrators in streets should protect themselves and others from COVID-19
May confirmed as warmest on record, CO2 levels hit new high despite COVID economic slowdown
Taking oceans for granted must stop for all our sakes: world’s fastest yachtswoman

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Over-cultivation and the effects of climate change have led to the deterioration of soils in the Philippines’ Bukidnon Province. (file)

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News in Brief 4 June 2020

4 June 2020

Philippines drug campaign directive seen as ‘permission to kill’: UN rights office
Transformative actions urgently required to protect environment and human rights
FAO Food Price Index falls to 17-month low

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A displaced Yemeni woman stands outside a makeshift shelter that she shares with her extended family.

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News in Brief 3 June 2020

3 June 2020

People on the move need protection during pandemic: Guterres
Khartoum massacre victims, await justice in Sudan
Bachelet alarmed by free speech clampdown in Asia

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