human rights

Artificial intelligence could help to boost the provision of healthcare around the world.
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Urgent action needed over artificial intelligence risks to human rights

15 September 2021
Human Rights

States should place moratoriums on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems until adequate safeguards are put in place, UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday. 
 

 

 

Food supplies are lined up for distribution to people facing hunger and in need of humanitarian assistance in Herat in western Afghanistan.
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News in Brief 14 September 2021

14 September 2021
News in Brief

 

  • First humanitarian flight to Kabul marks ‘turning point’: WFP 
  • After 10 years of war in Syria, siege tactics make their return 
  • Unremitting suffering in Yemen in spotlight at Human Rights Council 
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The sun sets on Kabul, Afghanistan.
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News in Brief 10 September 2021

10 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: Taliban violence against protesters increasing, warns OHCHR
  • Hungry Afghans resort to extreme coping strategies to feed families
  • Human rights abuses intensify in eastern DR Congo: UNHCR
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan, DR Congo, Tigray and Yemen

8 September 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, aid to Afghanistan in the international spotlight, a deadly bacterial meningitis alert in northeastern DR Congo, Yemen’s “unbearable” war drags on, and alarming developments in northern Ethiopia, where the “hungry season” has started, as conflict escalates across Tigray’s borders.

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In the first six months of 2021, WFP provided assistance to 5.5 million people in Afghanistan.
WFP

News in Brief 6 September 2021

6 September 2021
News in Brief
  • UN chief to lead call for Afghanistan humanitarian appeal 
  •  Australia must drop coal ‘or see climate change cause economic havoc’: UN adviser
  •  Conservation rights defenders killed with shocking frequency, says UN rights chief  
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Food and blankets are handed out to people in need in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. UNHCR warned that the world cannot allow this “to become a humanitarian catastrophe”
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'Major' humanitarian crisis looms in Afghanistan, as UN convenes fundraising conference

3 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid

A major humanitarian crisis is looming in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned again on Friday, amid ongoing uncertainty about the situation for vulnerable Afghans seeking shelter across the country's borders. To address the crisis, the UN announced a major fundraising conference to take place in Geneva on 13 September.

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination at a hospital in Kumasi, Ghana.
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News in Brief 2 September 2021

2 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Africa set to miss key COVID-19 vaccination goal: WHO 
  • Tigray aid situation worsening, UN humanitarians warn
  • Dementia ‘not inevitable’ says WHO in prevention call 
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Early morning in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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News in Brief 31 August 2021

31 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: far more lifesaving medical supplies needed: WHO
  • UNHCR stands ready to help Afghan neighbours offer shelter
  • Mali uptick in civilian killings, warns UN mission MINUSMA
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3'25"
A health worker cares for a young boy in Parwan Province, Afghanistan in November 2020.
© WFP/ Massoud Hossaini

News in Brief 30 August 2021

30 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: lifesaving medical supplies reach Mazar-i-Sharif - WHO
  • UN COVID-19 measures unveiled to help keep schools
  • UNHCR calls for all States to join the effort to eradicate statelessness
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Millions of people in Bangladesh have been impacted by climate shocks, like flooding.
WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud

Race is on to limit extreme weather impact on most vulnerable: Guterres  

19 August 2021
Humanitarian Aid

As the global aid community marked World Humanitarian Day on Thursday, UN chief António Guterres paid tribute to all those who help people in need and urged support for the day’s #TheHumanRace campaign, which aims to protect the most vulnerable people from the climate emergency.