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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Refugee vaccination, tackling systemic racism and Tigray

15 July 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, if you’re a refugee, how do you get a COVID vaccine? We hear about the challenges and what’s being done to overcome them. Also, the UN rights chief leads a call for an end to systemic racism at the Human Rights Council...These stories and more, in this week’s UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva podcast, with Daniel Johnson, and Solange Behoteguy Cortes.

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Eritrean refugees in the Tigray region of Ethiopia have been severly impacted by the violence and insecurity that has engulfed the region.
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News in Brief 13 July 2021

13 July 2021
News in Brief
  • Tigray aid convoy access call @WFP @WHO
  • WHO chief Tedros in new COVID-19 vaccination appeal
  • 270,000 Afghans newly displaced since January 2021: UNHCR
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Humanitarian aid being delivered to the Tigray region of Ethiopia by a convoy of 50 trucks .
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UN appeals for faster passage for aid convoys to Ethiopia’s Tigray

13 July 2021
Humanitarian Aid

UN humanitarians appealed on Tuesday for far quicker access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, after the first aid trucks in days to reach the local capital, Mekelle, encountered multiple checks delaying their arrival.

A one-year-old boy is treated for malnutrition at a health centre in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
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Secretary-General welcomes Ethiopia’s pledge to allow humanitarian access to Tigray

9 July 2021
Humanitarian Aid

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Ethiopia’s commitment to ensuring aid workers can access the war-ravaged Tigray region, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Friday. 

The Nile has delivered freshwater, fed agriculture, and supported livelihoods in Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan for thousands of years.
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UN ready to promote ‘win-win solution’ for Blue Nile dam project

8 July 2021
Peace and Security

The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday. 

A young girl undergoes a health-check at a health centre in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
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UN appeals for resupply of aid and fuel in Tigray region

6 July 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Humanitarian operations have been gradually resuming in the war-ravaged Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, but resupply of aid and fuel for civilians caught up in the fighting is urgently needed, the United Nations said on Tuesday, citing information from its emergency relief agency, OCHA.  

Yeshialem Gebreegziabher, 27, holds her daughter, Kalkidan Yeman, 6 months old, who is suffering from malnutrition at Aby Adi Health center in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia
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400,000 in Tigray cross 'threshold into famine', with nearly 2 million on the brink, Security Council told

2 July 2021
Peace and Security

Senior UN officials appealed on Friday for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray – and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers - as the Security Council held its first open meeting on the conflict in the restive northern Ethiopian region.

The World Food Programme (WFP) resumed its operations in the Tigray region of Ethiopia after fighting had halted its emergency response.
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‘Free, unfettered access’ needed to assist millions in war-torn Tigray

2 July 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed operations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, after fighting halted the emergency response last week, although the agency warned on Friday that “serious challenges” continue to threaten the entire humanitarian response.
 

Yeshialem Gebreegziabher, 27, holds her daughter, Kalkidan Yeman, 6 months old, who is suffering from malnutrition at Aby Adi Health center in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia
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News in Brief 2 July 2021

2 July 2021
News in Brief
  • WFP resumes effort to reach 2 million in Tigray with emergency aid
  • Top Guatemala judges facing threats, must be protected urges UN expert
  • More than 2 million children’s lives being ‘torn apart’ in Niger, says UNICEF
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Climate change scare for business, COVID’s $2.4 trillion tourism hit and Tigray alert

1 July 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, the worrying rise of internet blackouts to stifle dissent and why going green is a matter of survival for small firms. Also, the pandemic’s $2.4 trillion hit to global tourism, what new migrant worker numbers tell us about the world economy - and an alert over the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

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