News in Brief

More than half of the population within Afghanistan depend on humanitarian assistance, and their human rights remain challenged.
IOM 2021/Paula Bonstein

News in Brief 19 May 2022

19 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: UN’s Bachelet urges rethink on dissolution of rights body
  • COVID-19 cases stabilize, deaths continue downward trend, says WHO
  • Concerns over violence against children in Pacific nation of Kiribati
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Wildfires raging across parts of the western USA turned the sky over San Francisco orange.
© Unsplash/Patrick Perkins

News in Brief 18 May 2022

18 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Latest climate data from 2021 shows several records broken
  • Mozambique wild polio outbreak confirmed
  • ILO-UNICEF report urges closing of social protection coverage gap
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The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is now celebrated in more than 130 countries.
© UNHCR/Susan Hopper

News in Brief 17 May 2022

17 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Mexico’s 100,000 ‘disappeared’ is a tragedy, says UN rights chief Bachelet
  • COVID-19 outbreak in DPRK sparks UN rights office warning over impact on population
  • UN refugee agency chief Grandi highlights dangers for LGBTIQ+ on international day
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Disabled girls play basketball in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
© UNOCHA/Maxime Nama

News in Brief 16 May 2022

16 May 2022
News in Brief
  • WHO and UNICEF urge improved access to assistive products
  • Guterres deplores deadly ‘vile’ racist attack in Buffalo, NY
  • South Africa conference to speed up action to end child labour by 2025
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The crew of Apollo 17 captured this image of the Earth five hours after liftoff into their journey to the Moon in 1972.
© NASA

News in Brief 13 May 2022

13 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Ukraine: Concerns growing for TB and HIV patient care
  • Top rights expert to report on Maldives’ efforts to reintegrate foreign fighters
  • All countries united in push for greater space security at UN-led talks
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Children wait on a train in Ukraine for evacuation to Poland in early April 2022.
© UNICEF/Siegfried Modola

News in Brief 12 May 2022

12 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Russia in spotlight over Ukraine atrocities as Human Rights Council meets
  • UN chief adds voice to condemnation Al Jazeera journalist killing
  • UN health agency ‘committed’ to helping DPR Korea after first admitted COVID-19 outbreak
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Employees work on the production line at a grain processing factory in Skvyra, Ukraine in 2017.
© FAO/Genya Savilov

News in Brief 11 May 2022

11 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Ukraine war has ‘inflamed’ food, energy and finance crisis: Guterres
  • 4.8 million jobs lost in Ukraine since Russian invasion: ILO
  • Pledging conference on oil tanker in Yemen
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Some 83 percent of Afghan nationals over 18 years old are unemployed. With the lack of a basic income and the ongoing rise in food prices, access to food has become the most pressing concern for displaced persons in Afghanistan.
IOM 2021/Paula Bonstein

News in Brief 10 May 2022

10 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Ukraine: UN human rights office probe highlights civilians’ harrowing plight
  • Afghanistan’s hunger crisis is deepening, action is needed now, warns WFP
  • Sri Lanka: Bachelet urges restraint, dialogue as violence escalates
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South Omo zone in Ethiopia is facing a severe drought.
© WFP

News in Brief 9 May 2022

9 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Ukraine: UN chief begins solidarity tour of Moldova to meet refugees and host families
  • Ethiopia’s worst drought in 40 years may derail gains in maternal and newborn health
  • Space talks get under way to manage new threats to global security
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A small child, displaced from an orphanage in the Kharkiv region, walks in the hall of a shelter located in a sanatorium in Vorokhta, western Ukraine.
© UNICEF/Slava Ratynski

News in Brief 6 May 2022

6 May 2022
News in Brief
  • UNICEF highlights devastating mental health dangers for Ukraine children
  • Already reeling from COVID-19, Africa now at risk from Ukraine escalation
  • World food prices fall slightly in April after previous month’s spike
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