News in Brief

An Auxiliary Nurse Midwife washes her hands before she examines a pregnant woman as part of Village Health and Nutrition Day in Shrawasti, India.
UNICEF/Vishwanathan

News in Brief 3 April 2019

3 April 2019
News in Brief
  • Millions of lives at risk from lack of basic water facilities
  • UN chief pays tribute to Egypt’s role in avoiding escalation of violence in Gaza
  • Haiti ‘at the crossroads between peacekeeping and development’
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Health workers stand outside a tent used for cholera treatment, set up by MSF, UNICEF and the Red Cross at the Macurungo Health Centre in Beira.
UNICEF/DE WET

News in Brief 2 April 2019

2 April 2019
News in Brief
  • Massive cholera vaccine campaign set to begin in cyclone-hit Mozambique
  • Acute hunger affects over 100 million people worldwide: UN report
  • Millions still need help in north-east Nigeria, warn aid teams
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Michelle Bachelet (center left), High Commissioner for Human Rights attends the High-level panel on human rights mainstreaming of the 40th session of the Human Rights Council at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva. At her immediate right is María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the UN General Assembly.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin

News in Brief 01 April 2019

1 April 2019
News in Brief
  • Brunei's new legal code would enshrine "cruel and inhuman punishments": Bachelet
  • UN highlights importance of population trends as key factor for reaching 2030 SDGs
  • Deadly intercommunal violence continues in Mali
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UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jamie McGoldrick (centre), visits patients in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, along with doctors and WHO's representative..
UNRWA/Khalil Adwan

News in Brief 29 March 2019

29 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN calls for calm on eve of Gaza protest anniversary
  • Cholera contingencies, a top priority in Cyclone Idai disaster
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Two young boys play in a large pool of floodwater after Cyclone Idai hit Tongogara Refugee Camp in south-east Zimbabwe.
UNHCR/Zinyange Auntony

News in Brief 28 March 2019

28 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Cyclone Idai’s toll on Zimbabwe 
  • Stem the bloodshed in Mali 
  • Journalist Khashoggi murder trials must meet international standards 
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A Field Medical Foundation (FMF) mobile clinic visits the Al Sha'ab IDPs collective center in Aden, Yemen.
OCHA/Matteo Minasi

News in Brief 27 March 2019

27 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Sharp increase in Yemen deaths from cholera and diarrhoea
  • Eight years on, Syria humanitarian crisis is ‘far from over’
  • ‘Race against time’ to protect thousands of women and girls affected by Cyclone Idai
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Aruminda holds her brother, Antonio, at a camp set up for displaced people at the Jehovas Witness Centre in Dondo, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people.
UNICEF/DE WET

News in Brief 26 March 2019

26 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Cyclone Idai ‘another alarm bell’ on climate change, says UN’s Guterres
  • Mali’s ‘self-defence’ groups must face justice after deadly intercommunal attacks: UN rights office
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Secretary-General António Guterres (centre left) and María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly (centre right), pose for a photo with Alison Smale (left), Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, and Christopher Cozier, artist and keynote speaker from Trinidad and Tobago, ahead of the commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 25 March 2019

25 March 2019
News in Brief
  • A day to remember the ‘invincible spirit’ of enslaved people
  • Lethal autonomous weapons are ‘morally repugnant,’ says UN chief
  • Rohingya relocation plans: UN urges caution
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WFP’s food is part of a multi sectoral support package which will be dropped at each location affected by the floods in Mozambique, including Búzi and Guaraguara. Here, WFP Helicopter with High Energy Bicuits is reaching Guaraguara.
WFP/Deborah Nguyen

News in Brief 22 March 2019

22 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Needs still ‘critical’ for Cyclone Idai survivors, says UNICEF chief
  • Additional 15,000 people expected at Syria’s Al Hol camp after fleeing ISIL fighters
  • Human Rights Council resolutions wrap
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#FightRacism campaign for International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
United Nations Human Rights

News in Brief 21 March 2019

21 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN experts call for urgent action to end racial discrimination, in wake of New Zealand attack
  • ‘Massive and protracted’ humanitarian crisis in DR Congo can be ‘beaten back’ if donors step up
  • Idai disaster: Stranded victims still need rescue from heavy rains as UN scales up response
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