A man's temperature is taken in Mali to check against a possible COVID-19 infection.

MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko

News in Brief 15 July 2021

15 July 2021

COVID-19 pandemic ‘nowhere near finished’ says WHO panel
Violence ‘coming back to Syria’ warns UNICEF
Priest’s death in Indian prison a ‘stain’ on country’s record: UN rights expert

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Eritrean refugees in the Tigray region of Ethiopia have been severly impacted by the violence and insecurity that has engulfed the region.

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News in Brief 13 July 2021

13 July 2021

Tigray aid convoy access call @WFP @WHO
WHO chief Tedros in new COVID-19 vaccination appeal
270,000 Afghans newly displaced since January 2021: UNHCR

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A farmer harvests apples in Afghanistan.

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News in Brief 12 July 2021

12 July 2021

Conflict, climate change and coronavirus behind skyrocketing hunger
Schools still shuttered in 19 countries due to COVID-19
UN rights chief's action call on structural racism

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At least 1.5 million children in Haiti are in urgent need of emergency relief.

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News in Brief 9 July 2021

9 July 2021

A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of aid: UNICEF
Creation of Israeli settlements should be ‘war crime’, UN rights expert says
Honduras urged to stop criminalizing defence of indigenous rights

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Children in the village of Tebikenikora, in Kiribati, Central Pacific.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 8 July 2021

8 July 2021

Time is running out for countries at the front line of the climate crisis
UNICEF to deliver 220 million vaccines doses to African Union countries by 2022
New UN report reveals impact of COVID on human trafficking

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Bangladesh receives its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility on 31 May 2021.

© UNICEF/Bashir Ahmed Sujan

News in Brief 7 July 2021

7 July 2021

COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’: WHO chief
UN Myanmar expert calls for ‘emergency coalition’ to end junta rights abuses
Pathway to jobs in education for refugee graduates: UNHCR

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Children at an IDP camp in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.

UNICEF/Mauricio Bisol

News in Brief 6 July 2021

6 July 2021

Displacement crisis driving up hunger in northern Mozambique: WFP
OHCHR voices ‘deep concern’ over protesters’ deaths in Eswatini
Iran urged to end long-term detention to ‘silence’ rights defenders

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Yeshialem Gebreegziabher, 27, holds her daughter, Kalkidan Yeman, 6 months old, who is suffering from malnutrition at Aby Adi Health center in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia

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News in Brief 2 July 2021

2 July 2021

WFP resumes effort to reach 2 million in Tigray with emergency aid
Top Guatemala judges facing threats, must be protected urges UN expert
More than 2 million children’s lives being ‘torn apart’ in Niger, says UNICEF

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Governments and Internet companies are failing to meet challenges of online hate.

Unsplash/Priscilla du Preez

News in Brief 1 July 2021

1 July 2021

Internet shutdowns by repressive governments now ‘entrenched’
Malaria tops health threats facing world’s most vulnerable: UNHCR
Turkey urged not to withdraw from key convention on tackling violence against women

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