News in Brief

• UN chief ‘shocked’ by attack on Brazil’s Congress
• Guterres urges radical global finance shake-up to help Pakistan after deadly floods
• 1.5 million vulnerable Pakistan children suffering from acute malnutrition: UNICEF

• Belarus: Trial of Nobel winner Ales Bialiatski ‘politically motivated’ 

• New US border measures ‘not in line with international standards’: UNHCR 

• Myanmar amnesty still leaves thousands in detention, OHCHR warns 

• Pakistan floods: 9 million more, risk being pushed into poverty
• Warm start to 2023 breaks records across Europe: WMO
• UN peacekeepers launch joint mission with DRC troops in North Kivu

• Ukraine: FAO and EU in $15.5 million bid to tackle food insecurity
• Reach into your hearts and release all prisoners arbitrarily detained: UN rights chief
• Syria, Palestine, DPRK on UN Security Council’s new year agenda

• COVID-19: coronavirus experts to meet at WHO and discuss China infections
• UN humanitarians urge extension of Syria cross-border aid access
• Guterres ‘deeply saddened’ over South Africa fuel tanker tragedy

• UN chief calls for ‘maximum restraint’ in Bolivia 

• UN Rights chief appeals to save Myanmar refugees

• Ethiopia: Nationwide measles vaccination campaign  

• Peace needed now, ‘more than ever’: Guterres
• Top UN and civil society officials slam Afghan rulers’ NGO ban for women
• Violent clashes in South Sudan stretch humanitarian operations

• Afghanistan: UN rights chief urges end to female discrimination

• Indonesia’s ‘act of humanity’ for migrants adrift at sea

• Ukraine: UN helps with vulnerable communities  

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• Global cholera spike driven by climate change: WHO
• Afghanistan: top rights experts call on the Taliban to immediately halt executions
• Scottish Parliament urged to adopt gender recognition reform