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The Human Rights Council, Geneva (file photo, May 2018)
UN Photo/Elma Okic

Venezuela, Poland and Sudan amongst 14 new Human Rights Council members

17 October 2019
Human Rights

14 new members were elected to the Human Rights Council on Thursday, following a secret ballot held in the General Assembly Hall in New York.

Nine-year-old Acnayeli (center) fled violence in Venezuela and lives now with her mother and sister in in Cucuta, Colombia. (April 2019)
©UNICEF/Arcos

News in Brief 9 September 2019

9 September 2019
News in Brief

 

  • Climate change is undermining human rights, warns Bachelet
  • Human rights in Venezuela, suffer 'devastating toll'
  • Health agency pledges $3.5 million to Dorian survivors
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A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
17ª Brigada de Infantaria de Selva

We are ‘burning up our future’, UN’s Bachelet tells Human Rights Council

9 September 2019
Human Rights

The Human Rights Council opened in Geneva on Monday with a warning from the UN’s top rights official that, with forest fires raging in the Amazon, “we are burning up our future, literally”.

UN vehicle on mission to Rukban, Syria.
OCHA/Fadwa Baroud

News in Brief 12 July 2019

12 July 2019
News in Brief
  • UN’s Guterres condemns ongoing airstrikes on Syria’s hospitals, medical workers
  • UN human rights office alarm over death sentences for 30 men in Houthi-held Sana’a
  • Human Rights Council session votes to probe Philippines’ deadly ‘war on drugs’
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Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the African Regional High-Level Conference on Counter Terrorism and Prevention of Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism. (10 July 2019)
UNEP/Duncan Moore

News in Brief 10 July 2019

10 July 2019
News in Brief
  • UN chief briefs top counter-terrorism conference in Kenya
  • Rohingya refugees 'must' get Myanmar citizenship rights
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Kayenat, 12, feels happy to be sitting outside her school classroom as she smiles for the camera at the UNICEF-supported Zangora Community Based Education (CBE) cluster, Surkhrod District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (10 April 2019)
© UNICEF/Marko Kokic

News in Brief 09 July 2019

9 July 2019
News in Brief
  • 2030 education goal, unrealistic, UNESCO warns
  • New Essential Medicines List includes groundbreaking treatments
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Rohingya refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar.
IOM/Mohammed

Friday’s Daily Brief: Sudan power-sharing deal welcomed, hope for Venezuela talks, Rohingya camps flooded, Libya airstrikes update

5 July 2019
Peace and Security

Friday’s main news stories include: Guterres welcomes Sudan power-sharing deal; six children are among 53 confirmed dead after Libya detention centre airstrikes; Monsoon rains wreak havoc in Rohingya camps; and Bachelet calls for “time and space” in Venezuela.

The aftermath of the devastating airstrike on the Tajoura Detention Centre, in the suburbs of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on 2 July.
IOM/Moad Laswed

News in Brief 05 July 2019

5 July 2019
News in Brief
  • Six children among fatalities after Libya detention centre bombings
  • Dozens of lives lost as Mediterranean migrant vessel capsizes
  • Monsoon rains wreak havoc in Bangladesh camps
  • 'Time and space' needed for Venezuela reforms: Bachelet
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The aftermath of Tuesday night’s devastating attack at the Tajoura Detention Centre, east of Tripoli.
IOM/Moad Laswed

News in Brief 03 July 2019

3 July 2019
News in Brief
  • UN condemns deadly airstrike on migrant centre as possible war crime
  • Situation in Myanmar is deteriorating, says UN human rights expert
  • UN experts say millions in Indian state of Assam dealing with ‘xenophobic climate’
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Children at a school tent in the northern Idlib, Syria. Humanitarian emergencies deprive children of health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education and other basic needs.
© UNICEF/UN0248372/Watad

Thursday’s Daily Brief: dire living conditions in Idlib, migrants at US southern border, end in sight for trachoma, Human Rights Council

27 June 2019
Humanitarian Aid

This Thursday, we cover: the dire humanitarian situation in Syria’s Idlib; living conditions at the US-Mexico border denounced by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF); trachoma-related blindness on the verge of being eliminated; and updates from the Human Rights Council in Geneva.