News in Brief

News in Brief 5 February 2020

  • 'Tremendous gap' between refugee resettlement and placements: UNHCR
  • UN refugee chief wraps up visit to three countries in the Sahel
  • WHO and UNICEF support massive measles campaign in South Sudan
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3'7"

News in Brief 4 February 2020

  • Both sides in Libya conflict agree need for ceasefire that lasts 
  • WHO moves fast to tackle coronavirus ‘infodemic’  
  • Daily bombing leaves northwest Syrian civilians nowhere to hide 
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3'59"

News in Brief 3 February 2020

  • Libya talks begin in Geneva 
  • Sick patients airlifted from Yemeni capital
  • WHO highlights worsening health threats to Syrian civilians
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2'47"

News in Brief 31 January 2020

  • $1.4 billion needed for UNRWA budget
  • US Middle East plan a ‘one and a half State solution’
  • Do not confuse food charity with ‘right to food’, UN expert tells Italy
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3'22"

News in Brief 30 January 2020

  • UNHCR suspends work at transit site in Libya 
  • End political deadlock in Iraq, top UN official urges 
  • Rights experts commend safe return of Irish woman associated with ISIL 
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3'29"

News in Brief 29 January 2020

  • Boosting pneumonia fight could save lives of 9 million children
  • ‘Unprecedented threat’ from rising numbers of Desert Locusts
  • DR Congo can rise above ‘deadly cocktail’ of conflict, rights violations
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2'36"

News in Brief 28 January 2020

  • Iraq: Rights report expresses concerns over ISIL fighter trials
  • Sudan: Violence pushes thousands to flee
  • New financial panel to push Global Goals forward
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3'19"

News in Brief 27 January 2020

  • Societies must unite against ‘global crisis of antisemitic hatred’
  • Libya: UN report urges accountability for deadly migrant attack
  • UNESCO chief demands justice for killing of Iraqi reporters
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2'55"

News in Brief 24 January 2020

 

  • 258 million out of school 'unacceptable': UN General Assembly President
  • UN assisting hundreds affected by intercommunal attack in Abyei
  • UN refugee agency calls landmark climate asylum ruling a 'wake-up' call
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News in Brief 23 January 2020

  • Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from genocide
  • 75 years post-Auschwitz, antisemitism still threatens democracy
  • Global forestry gets a boost
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