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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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Many countries, like Brazil, are still hoping to reach large numbers of unvaccinated people.
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COVID-19 booster strategy as Delta multiplies, highlights ‘disappointing inequality’: WHO

12 July 2021
Health

The COVID-19 Delta variant is travelling around the world at a “scorching pace” driving a new spike in cases and deaths, but it’s exposing a ‘hugely uneven and inequitable’ global gap in vaccine supply, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

A health care worker prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil.
PAHO/Karina Zambrana

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Myocarditis: benefits outweigh the risks, says WHO committee

9 July 2021
Health

After receiving reports of heart inflammation cases due to myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination with COVID-19 Pfizer and Moderna shots, World Health Organization (WHO) experts on Friday said that the benefits of the vaccines still outweigh the risks in reducing hospitalizations and deaths due to infection.

Children in the village of Tebikenikora, in Kiribati, Central Pacific.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 8 July 2021

8 July 2021
News in Brief
  • Time is running out for countries at the front line of the climate crisis
  • UNICEF to deliver 220 million vaccines doses to African Union countries by 2022
  • New UN report reveals impact of COVID on human trafficking
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Bangladesh receives its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility on 31 May 2021.
© UNICEF/Bashir Ahmed Sujan

News in Brief 7 July 2021

7 July 2021
News in Brief
  • COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’: WHO chief
  • UN Myanmar expert calls for ‘emergency coalition’ to end junta rights abuses
  • Pathway to jobs in education for refugee graduates: UNHCR
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Drought in Bolivia, COVID in Africa, & why climate resilience matters to shopkeepers

24 June 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show: a chilling warning that climate change could cause a pandemic-scale economic shock to small businesses once a decade; we follow the fast-growing COVID-19 spike across Africa and hear welcome news about how some countries have included refugees in their pandemic vaccination programmes. We’ll also be learning about why drought “could be the next pandemic” from the UN’s top disaster risk reduction official, in this week’s interview.

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A COVID-19 walk-in drive-through testing site in Ogun state, southwestern Nigeria.
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News in Brief 24 June 2021

24 June 2021
News in Brief
  • More countries need to vaccinate 82.4 million on the move: UNHCR
  • Africa's third-wave of COVID can be pushed back - WHO regional head
  • Torture rehabilitation must be a universal right, urges UN expert
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Women in Niger prepare fields for the rainy season as part of an anti-desertification initiative.
© FAO/Giulio Napolitano

News in Brief 17 June 2021

17 June 2021
News in Brief
  • Debt suspension call for countries hit worst by COVID: Guterres
  • Drought on verge of becoming the 'next pandemic'
  • COVID-19 cases surge by more than 20 per cent week on week
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Animals in lockdown, Tigray and COVID vaccine alert for Africa

10 June 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s UN Catch-Up, we’re getting in touch with the natural world – a photo contest showing what animals make of COVID lockdowns…Plus, the week’s top news stories from UN News, including likely famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray and alarming coronavirus vaccine shortfalls in nearly all African nations. I’m your host in Geneva, Daniel Johnson, and regular guest Solange Behoteguy-Cortes is with us too for closing comments. Thanks for listening.

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