News in Brief 25 January 2023
- Latin America, Caribbean ‘must step up’ to tackle rising hunger: FAO
- Stand with Lake Chad region, urges UN deputy relief chief
- Odesa added to UNESCO's World Heritage List amid threats of destruction
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean “can and must step up” to tackle rising levels of hunger, poverty and inequality, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, said on Wednesday.
Two UN agencies launched on Thursday, a $1.72 billion regional plan to support Venezuelan refugees and migrants throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Latin America and the Caribbean: Far-reaching climate repercussions
Hunger rising across East Africa
At least 14 children killed and injured during attack in Syria
From the Amazon to the Andes and the snowy depths of Patagonia, extreme weather and climate change are causing mega-drought, extreme rainfall, deforestation and glacier melt across the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, according to a UN report published on Friday.
South Sudan: WFP forced to cut aid to 1.7 million
Rising food insecurity drives mass migration in Latin America, WFP warns
UN campaign to #StopRedSeaSpill
Ever greater numbers of vulnerable people are risking their lives on dangerous migration routes in Latin America, forced to move by the global food security crisis that’s been made worse by spiralling inflation linked to the war in Ukraine, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
More than half the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, a senior official with the regional arm of UN health agency WHO said on Wednesday.