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Bike ride in Damascus, Syria (2015).
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Tuesday’s Daily Brief: hate speech, dementia, Libya and Yemen, human rights in Brazil and Lebanon

14 May 2019
Peace and Security

This Tuesday, we cover: the UN chief in New Zealand’s Christchurch calls for end to hate speech; how a healthy lifestyle can prevent dementia; updates on fighting in Libya and Yemen; the human rights of detainees in Lebanon and people affected by leprosy in Brazil.

Area hit by the rupture of the dam in Brumadinho, Brazil.
Presidência da República do Brasil/Divulgação

News in Brief 30 January 2019

30 January 2019
News in Brief
  • Probe call for Brazil dam collapse
  • ‘World’s deadliest sea crossing’ claimed six lives a day in 2018: UN refugee agency
  • 30 dead and 100 migrants missing in Djibouti boat tragedy
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Pataxó Indigenous people live in the village of Naõ Xohã, on the banks of the Paraopeba river damaged by the collapse of a mining dam in Brumadinho, Brazil.
Lucas Hallel ASCOM/FUNAI

Guterres says UN stands ready to support Brazil’s search and rescue effort in wake of tragic dam collapse

26 January 2019
Humanitarian Aid

Secretary-General António Guterres said on Saturday that the United Nations stands ready to support the Brazilian authorities in the search and emergency relief efforts following the deadly dam collapse and mudslides in vast South American country’s south-eastern region.

President Michel Temer of Brazil addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly..
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

‘Old forms of intolerance are being rekindled,’ unilateralism re-emerging, Brazil warns at UN Assembly

25 September 2018
UN Affairs

The first Head of State to address the seventy-third general debate of the United Nations General Assembly, Michel Temer, President of Brazil, denounced the rising tide of isolationism, intolerance and unilateralism that was challenging international order.

UNHCR staff verify and assist Venezuelan refugees, asylum seekers and persons of concern at the recently opened Rondon I shelter in Boa Vista, Roraima, in northern Brazil.
UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno

Key Brazilian border crossing for Venezuela refugees reopens as asylum numbers pass last year's total

7 August 2018
Migrants and Refugees

Some 117,000 Venezuelans have claimed asylum already this year — more than for the whole of 2017 — the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, after welcoming a decision by the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court to reverse the closure of the country’s border with its northern neighbour.

In inland Bahia, a northeastern state in Brazil, UNICEF and its partners found Yasmin and her sisters and took the girls to school.
UNICEF/Raoni Libório

‘Economy is society’s servant, not its master,’ say UN rights experts, urging Brazil to put human rights before austerity

3 August 2018
Human Rights

Marginalized groups suffer unduly harsh consequences due to Brazil’s economic policies of austerity, prompting United Nations rights experts to urge the Government to instead prioritize human rights.

Director of UNOSSC, Jorge Chediek along with representatives from Brazil, India and South Africa during the IBSA fund report launch. UN News/Laura Quinones

UN-managed fund fights poverty and hunger across Global South

28 November 2017
Interviews

Three leaders in “South-South Cooperation”, together with $33 million in contributions, are helping 15 of the least developed countries in the world move ahead with achieving the 2030

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President Michel Temer of Brazil addresses the general debate of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

‘We need more diplomacy, more negotiating’ Brazilian President tells UN Assembly

19 September 2017
The President of Brazil, the first Head of State traditionally to address the annual United Nations General Assembly’s general debate, pledged today that his country will sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – reiterating that the nuclear powers undertake additional disarmament.
The Iguazu Falls, on the border between Brazil and Argentina.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Indigenous and environmental rights under attack in Brazil, UN rights experts warn

8 June 2017
Human Rights

Human rights experts from the United Nations and an inter-American organization have denounced attacks on indigenous and environmental rights in Brazil, expressing concern over a Congressional report that accuses the UN of being “a confederation of non-governmental organizations influencing Brazilian policy.”

UN Photo/Mark Garten
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Innovators, UN discuss using tech to tackle world’s challenges

17 May 2017
General News

From drones dropping food and medicines, to handheld devices that can diagnose Ebola with a drop of blood - the latest technological advances are converging to make the “unthinkable happen.”

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