News in Brief

Civilians from Mariupol flee the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in a UN-led evacuation.
© UNOCHA/Kateryna Klochko

News in Brief 5 May 2022

5 May 2022
News in Brief
  • 7.7 million people displaced inside Ukraine, warns UN emergency relief chief
  • Collective bargaining in workplace is essential for global recovery: ILO
  • Cameroon women’s activist scoops award for land rights fight
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Fries with cheese. According to a new WHO study there are 17 million deaths every year caused by cardiovascular diseases.
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News in Brief 4 May 2022

4 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Ukraine: journalists targeted and in danger, warn top rights experts
  • Soul diva Dionne Warwick joins UNHCR and TikTok, in boost for refugee solidarity
  • WHO warns of worsening obesity ‘epidemic’ in Europe
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrives in Niamey, Niger, on a three-nation tour of West Africa.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 3 May 2022

3 May 2022
News in Brief
  • Niger needs all our help as bulwark against terrorism, urges UN's Guterres
  • Mariupol steel works convoy: UN humanitarians aid arrivals after harrowing journey
  • UN’s Bachelet hails courage of journalists on World Press Freedom Day
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Five-year-old Arthur from Mariupol, Ukraine, still bears scars after surviving hunger and the bombing of his home city.
© UNICEF

News in Brief 29 April 2022

29 April 2022
News in Brief
  • UN migration agency appeals for $514 million to support Ukraine response
  • Investigations continue into cause of liver failure outbreak in kids
  • Mali Press shutdowns reflect growing regional intolerance: OHCHR
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) visits Bucha, on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 28 April 2022

28 April 2022
News in Brief

 

  • UN chief in Ukraine: war is ‘evil’ and unacceptable, calls for justice
  • Lula trial in Brazil violated due process, says UN rights panel
  • Africa sees surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases
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A UNICEF-supported sanitation team decontaminates a house in Mbandaka, where a person suspected of contracting Ebola stayed.
© UNICEF/Mulala Josué

News in Brief 27 April 2022

27 April 2022
News in Brief
  • Choc shock as 11 countries report salmonella outbreak
  • Girls’ performance in mathematics starting to add up to boys’, says UNESCO
  • Ebola vaccination campaign underway in DR Congo
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres meets the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Russian capital, Moscow.
UN Russia/Yuri Kochin

News in Brief 26 April 2022

26 April 2022
News in Brief
  • Ukraine war: UN chief arrives for talks in Moscow as ‘messenger of peace’
  • Healthcare attacks continue in Ukraine amid growing needs
  • Sand is not an infinite resource, countries’ development is at stake: UNEP
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People are fleeing Ukraine at the Medyka border crossing and Przemysl train station, Poland.
© IOM/Francesco Malavolta

News in Brief 25 April 2022

25 April 2022
News in Brief
  • Ukraine: UN chief pushes for peace, 5.2 million flee country
  • Top rights experts urge US to ease Afghanistan assets freeze
  • UN rights office calls for Singapore stay of execution
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People fleeing the heavily bombed city of Mykolaiv pass through Lviv, western Ukraine, en route to Poland.
© UNICEF/Siegfried Modola

News in Brief 22 April 2022

22 April 2022
News in Brief
  • UN’s Bachelet condemns ‘horrors’ against Ukrainian civilians 
  • African nations gear up for boosted malaria vaccine roll-out WHO 
  • Israeli Defence Forces in rights spotlight for ‘unnecessary, indiscriminate’ violence 
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Asodale promotes union and teamwork among women in order to contribute to peace and reconciliation in their territories.
ART/Sergio Fabián Garzón Clavijo

News in Brief 21 April 2022

21 April 2022
News in Brief
  • More women needed in disarmament: UN rights chief  
  • Ukraine impacts South Sudan 
  • COVID19: global deaths and infections continue to fall: WHO 
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