News in Brief

The first WFP helicopter to arrive in Beira, Mozambique, rescued people from Bozi bringing them to Beira airport on Tuesday.
WFP/Deborah Nguyen

News in Brief 20 March 2019

20 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN ramps up humanitarian response to Cyclone Idai
  • UN court increases Karadžić sentence to life imprisonment
  • South-South cooperation key to fight against global warming: UN chief
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Tropical Cyclone IDAI has made landfall near the heavily-populated Mozambican port city of Beira, which has compounded destructive flooding that has already occurred as far inland as southern Malawi and eastern Zimbabwe. The World Food Programme has been stepping up preparations to meet large scale assistance needs.
WFP/Photolibrary

News in Brief 19 March 2019

19 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Humanitarian emergency getting bigger by the hour, warns UN food agency
  • DRC’s election of President Tshisekedi 'a momentous transition moment'
  • Mali violence ‘is worsening’ for civilian in centre and north, warns rights expert
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Internally displaced persons in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
© UNHCR/Ley Uwera

News in Brief 18 March 2019

18 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN will support DR Congo in addressing on-going threats to peace and security  
  • Syrians continue to suffer from one of the worst conflicts of our time: Guterres 
  • Terrorist attack in Mali condemned by UN representative in the country 
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Cereal stored in Dhubab, Taiz Gobernorate, in Yemen. The World Food Programme (WFP) gained access for the first time in five months to the large Red Sea Mills grain silo in Hudaydah, on 27 February.
Giles Clarke/OCHA

News in Brief 15 March 2019

15 March 2019
News in Brief

* First aid in nine months unloaded at key port in Yemen

* Response to Tropical Cyclone Idai ramps up as 1.5 million forced to flee

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People are slowly returning to the devastated Old City of Homs, in Syria.
UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

News in Brief 14 March 2019

14 March 2019
News in Brief
  • More violence in Idlib frames Brussels Syria pledging conference
  • Build sustainable societies, by switching to Green initiatives
  • Amend drug laws to eliminate racial discrimination, UN experts say
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A boy waiting for his school bus in the Songinokhairkhan district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where air pollution levels are dangerously high.
© UNICEF/Mungunkhishig Batbaatar

News in Brief 13 March 2019

13 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Damage to the planet poses growing risk to human health
  • 260,000 children in DRC facing acute malnutrition
  • Syria still living on ‘razor edge’
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Yasmin Sooka, Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan present his report at a 40th Session of the Human Rights Council.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

News in Brief 12 March 2019

12 March 2019
News in Brief
  • In South Sudan, mothers teaching daughters ‘safer’ ways to survive rape
  • DR Congo: ‘New waves of violence’ likely, UN warns, unless State acts to prevent intercommunal reprisals
  • 2020 elections in Burundi could have major impact on human rights, says UN panel
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The United Nations flag flies at half-mast at UN Headquarters in New York in memory of the people who died in an Ethiopian Airlines crash accident in Ethiopia on 10 March 2019.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

News in Brief 11 March 2019

11 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN Secretary-General leads tributes to UN workers who died in Ethiopia crash
  • UN chief sends condolences to families of Malawi flood victims
  • Human Rights Council-appointed expert calls for Myanmar investigation
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Colombia. Desperate Venezuelans cross border on foot.
UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo

News in Brief 8 March 2019

8 March 2019
News in Brief
  • UN rights team officially invited to Venezuela, paves way for High Commissioner
  • UNHCR opens reception centre in Colombia for vulnerable Venezuelans
  • We need to break down stereotypes, star of Oscar-winning movie Roma
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Employees at Rich Factory, in Egypt, carefully sew underwear. Rich is a small business where the majority of the employees are young women from the neighborhood.
World Bank/Dominic Chavez

News in Brief 7 March 2019

7 March 2019
News in Brief
  • Women still struggle to find a job, let alone reach the top: UN report
  • Nearly 100 civilians a week are dying in Yemen: UNHCR
  • Three in four children with disabilities left out of education in parts of Europe, Asia: UNICEF
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