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News in Brief 22 December 2023

  • Gaza crisis: Starvation must not be allowed to happen, says UN rights chief
  • 46.7 million children in West and Central Africa face ongoing humanitarian crisis  
  • Global dengue cases on the rise again, posing public health challenge, WHO warns 
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News in Brief 20 December 2023

  • Barely a drop of safe water to drink in Gaza, UN aid agency warns 

  • Ukraine: OCHA condemnation for strikes on aid infrastructure by Russian military 

  • IOM welcomes new migrant legislation in Greece 

 

 

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News in Brief 19 December 2023

  • ‘Ten weeks of hell’ for children in Gaza

  • Ukraine: civilian death toll passes 10,000 amid ‘gross rights violations’: Türk

  • Sudan: humanitarian crisis deepens as new front opens in conflict: OCHA

 

 

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News in Brief 18 December 2023

  • Gaza hospital destroyed, WHO chief reiterates ceasefire call

  • Migrants’ Day: UN chief calls for rights-based migration governance

  • Russia: Rights expert slams Navalny’s ‘enforced disappearance’

 

 

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News in Brief 15 December 2023

  • Supporting refugees is all of humanity’s ‘obligation’: UN chief 

  • Afghanistan: instead of justice, women survivors of violence face prison: UNAMA

  • Urgent help needed for millions of children affected by conflicts and disasters: UNICEF

  • DR Congo mpox spread accelerating: WHO

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News in Brief 13 December 2023

  • Gaza ceasefire ‘in everybody’s interest’: UN humanitarian coordinator
  • Fossil fuel phaseout ‘inevitable’: UN chief on COP28 outcome 
  • Global Refugee Forum opportunity to bolster forced displacement response: Grandi
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News in Brief 11 December 2023

  • Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens as fighting rages on across the Strip 

  • COP28: UN chief urges climate talks ambition as clock runs out
  • Human rights at 75: Türk calls on countries to overcome divisions 

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