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News in Brief 10 March 2022

  • ‘Lifesaving’ vaccine call for all refugees from Ukraine: WHO
  • UN’s Bachelet leads COVID-19 vaccine global equity call
  • Condemnation and solidarity from WHO’s Tedros over Ukraine hospital attack
  • Two thirds of households with children have lost income during pandemic
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News in Brief 9 March 2022

  • Ukraine war: neighbouring countries struggling to welcome influx

  • Fears grow for Syria amid rising violence, deepening humanitarian crisis

  • UNICEF provides boost to mother and child care, in northeast Nigeria

  • WHO issues new guidelines on abortion to help deliver lifesaving care

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News in Brief 8 March 2022

  • Ukraine war now ‘apocalyptic’, warn humanitarians in call for safe access

  • Tigray crisis marked by uptick in airstrikes, warns UN rights chief

  • ‘Turn the clock forward on women’s rights’: Guterres

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News in Brief 7 March 2022

  • Russia reduced Genocide Convention ‘to confetti’, Ukraine tells ICJ

  • Sudan: UN rights chief condemns ‘sharp reversal of achievements’

  • Greater investment in care could create almost 300 million jobs

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News in Brief 4 March 2022

  • Ukraine crisis: unprecedented outflow of traumatized people, say UN teams

  • Human Rights Council votes to set up Ukraine probe

  • UN refugee agency appeals for $205 million to help Ethiopia

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News in Brief 3 March 2022

  • Bachelet leads calls for Ukraine ceasefire at Human Rights Council

  • Top international court to launch war crimes probe in Ukraine

  • Racism, xenophobia must stop against third country nationals in Ukraine: IOM chief  

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News in Brief 1 March 2022

  • UN launches $1.7 billion humanitarian appeals for Ukraine

  • UN humanitarians appeal to military actors to spare people in Ukraine

  • Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans – rights experts

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News in Brief 25 February 2022

  • Ukraine crisis: terrified families seek shelter underground in capital

  • Sri Lanka: ‘setbacks’ to accountability for past human rights violations

  • UN’s Sudan rights expert calls for release of protesters

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