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News in Brief 24 March 2022

  • Ukraine war: half of country’s children now displaced 

  • WHO publishes first-ever country estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion

  • UNCTAD calls for IMF, World Bank measures as global downturn bites

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News in Brief 23 March 2022

  • Ukraine: UN’s Tedros urges Russia to stop the war amid ongoing attacks
  • UN weather agency to spearhead 5-year early warning plan, boosting climate action
  • UN health agency appeals to reverse gains lost in fight against TB
  • Seeds of change in Kenya as farmers lead way on tobacco-free farms
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News in Brief 22 March 2022

  • Time to negotiate end to ‘unwinnable’ war in Ukraine, Guterres declares

  • Now humanitarians fear Ukraine fallout in Haiti

  • Thousands continue to flee violence in northern Mozambique

 

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News in Brief 18 March 2022

  • Ukraine invasion: Needs keep growing with cities facing ‘fatal shortages’

  • Gamechanger HIV injection rolls out in South Africa and Brazil

  • UNHCR and partners launch $1.2 billion appeal for South Sudan refugees

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News in Brief 17 March 2022

  • UNESCO slams journalist killings, offers bullet-proof vests to local reporters

  • World must deliver support to Afghans: UN refugee chief

  • UK border reform Bill treats vulnerable newcomers like criminals: Bachelet

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News in Brief 15 March 2022

  • Ukraine war creating a child refugee almost every second: UNICEF

  • Encircled Mariupol being ‘suffocated’ as deadly bombardment continues

  • UN’s Bachelet urges action on Myanmar amid ‘spiral’ of violence

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News in Brief 14 March 2022

  • Ukraine: WHO working day and night to keep medical supply chains open

  • Chernobyl nuclear reactor latest: power ‘restored’ says UN atomic agency

  • Yemen ‘teetering on outright catastrophe’ warn UN humanitarians

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