A young girl in the waiting room of a UNICEF-supported medical clinic in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

© UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

News in Brief 23 December 2021

23 December 2021

‘Existential’ funding threat for Occupied Palestinian Territories
No country can boost its way out of COVID pandemic: WHO’s Tedros
UN Security Council allows ‘humanitarian exception’ on Afghanistan aid funding

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WFP provides food vouchers to 55,000 people in hard-to-reach district of Taiz city, Al Qahira, Yemen.

WFP

News in Brief 22 December 2021

22 December 2021

Yemen alert: 8 million face reduced rations says WFP
Ignoring COVID-19 will simply perpetuate it, warns UN health agency
India urged to release Kashmiri activist by independent rights experts

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A refugee and her daughter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been living in a camp for displaced people in Zambia since 2020.

WFP/Andy Higgins

News in Brief 21 December 2021

21 December 2021

Alarm over Sudan reports of sexual violence and live rounds used against protesters
‘Appalling’ plight of migrants and refugees at Belarus-Poland border
Thousands head home voluntarily from Zambia to DR Congo

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Secretary-General António Guterres kicks off official visit to Lebanon, 19 December 2021.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 20 December 2021

20 December 2021

Philippines Super Typhoon Rai: UN humanitarian response
Lebanon: UN chief Guterres urges political unity
Somalia emergency funds desperately needed says relief chief

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The crisis in northern Ethiopia has resulted in millions of people in need of emergency assistance and protection.

© UNICEF/Christine Nesbitt

News in Brief 17 December 2021

17 December 2021

Ethiopia: severe human rights violations and abuses continue
Viet Nam in rights spotlight over sentencing of activists for ‘anti-State propaganda’
Cameroon: Intercommunal clashes continue to displace thousands

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Migrant workers returning to Bangladesh receive COVID-19 prevention packages.

UN Women/Fahad Kaizer

News in Brief 16 December 2021

16 December 2021

Migrant workers still at great risk despite key role in global economy: IOM
Latest deadly Ebola outbreak is over, says DR Congo
Hunger in Arab region ‘up more than 90 per cent since 2000’

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Countries in Africa have accessed vaccines through the COVAX Facility.

WHO

News in Brief 15 December 2021

15 December 2021

COVID19 - We’re not against boosters, we’re against vaccine inequity
Asia-Pacific sees 50 million more going hungry in first year of COVID
Ukraine human rights in the spotlight

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Women wait for their children to be screened for malnutrition at a clinic in Balkh Province, Afghanistan.

WFP/Julian Frank

News in Brief 14 December 2021

14 December 2021

Record Arctic temperature confirmed: WMO
Afghanistan revenge killings continue, Human Rights Council hears
Afghanistan hunger impacts 98 per cent of people, warns WFP

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A displaced mother feeds her baby with a peanut-based paste during a WFP famine assessment excercise in Nigeria.

© WFP/Arete/Siegfried Modola

News in Brief 13 December 2021

13 December 2021

Discussions on AI weapons must advance swiftly: Guterres
COVID-19 highlights threat of non-communicable diseases to global health
Food insecurity in Europe and Central Asia worsened by COVID-19

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People ride a bus in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar.

ILO/Marcel Crozet

News in Brief 10 December 2021

10 December 2021

Rights violations deepening in Myanmar warns OHCHR
Cameroon violence over scarce resources forces 30,000 to flee
Climate change aggravating terrorism, Security Council hears

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