A mother from Luhansk feeding her baby while taking part in the workshop “Breastfeeding and infant feeding of children in emergencies” organized by UNICEF in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2015.

UNICEF/Zavalnyuk

News in Brief 30 April 2019

30 April 2019

Floods in Iran: worst damage in over 50 years, as UN supports recovery effort
Breastfeeding protects children from obesity, new UN studies confirm
Story of Jazz celebrated worldwide with International Jazz Day

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In the streets of Tripoli, Libya, a UNOCHA staff member visits a Sudanese caregiver house, before clashes around Tripoli started. (February 2019)

UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 29 April 2019

29 April 2019

Civilians need ‘urgent’ help amid Tripoli airstrikes, clashes
UN, global health agencies sound alarm on drug-resistant infections
UN’s prevention of genocide official co-hosts summit to tackle hate speech

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Some of the destruction left behind in the aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth which struck Mozambique on 25 April 2019.

WFP/Photolibrary

News in Brief 26 April 2019

26 April 2019

Guterres calls for ‘quantum’ leap in resources and will for development and climate solutions
New Mozambique storm rips off roofs, brings lashing rain as aid response kicks in
Mali insecurity leaves one in three Mopti schools closed

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Lucio Carlos, a volunteer social mobiliser, carried Luisa Daniel, 5, suffering from fever and vomiting to a medical tent where she was tested for Malaria. Dondo, Mozambique.

UNICEF/James Oatway

News in Brief 25 April 2019

25 April 2019

‘Zero malaria starts with me’: UN health agency
UN project to aid 140,000 in the Sahel
‘A dark day’ for media freedoms in Myanmar

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Civilians in Gardez city, Paktia Province, Afghanistan.

UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

News in Brief 24 April 2019

24 April 2019

Violence continuing to inflict ‘high levels of harm’ on Afghan civilians
More regulation on new technologies needed: UN Human Rights chief says after visiting Silicon Valley
‘Violent extremism must not divide us’: UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Sri Lanka’s attacks

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A doctor uses an orthopedic bone drill during surgery on a 4-year-old boy in Libya this week. As the conflict in the country's capital, Tripoli, has continued, hospitals are overwhelmed with trauma cases.

WHO

News in Brief 23 April 2019

23 April 2019

Thousands shelter in clinics from Tripoli fighting, warns WHO
DRC Ebola dangers may increase after killing of health worker
45 children among those killed in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday outrages

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Participants at the opening of the eighteenth substantive session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

UN Photo/Loey Felipe

News in Brief 22 April 2019

22 April 2019

UN continues diplomatic push for political solution to end Libya fighting
Traditional knowledge at ‘core’ of indigenous heritage
Rohingya refugee crisis: UN Humanitarian top officials to visit Bangladesh

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Nine-months-old twins, together with their mother and two siblings, fled violence in Susa village in northeastern Syria. The family made an arduous journey to Al-Hol camp (January 2019).

UNICEF/Hasen

News in Brief 18 April 2019

18 April 2019

‘Foreign children’ in overwhelmed Syrian camp need countries to help them: top UN official
Stress, overtime and disease contribute to 2.8 million workers dying every year: ILO
UN human rights chief alarmed at mass terrorism trial in Bahrain, revoking citizenship

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UNHCR airfreights in supplies for distribution to those in need after flooding and heavy rains swept 24 of 31 provinces in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

©UNHCR/Hossein Eidizadeh

News in Brief 17 April 2019

17 April 2019

UN refugee agency stepping up support for Iran’s flood-hit communities
WHO unveils first digital health care guidelines
'Protect and empower children online': UN human rights expert calls for global efforts

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Nicaraguans meet in Parque de la Merced, San Jose. In recent years, this has become a space where displaced people come to get information from some of the estimated quarter of a million Nicaraguans already living in Costa Rica (August 2018).

© UNHCR/Roberto Carlos Sanchez

News in Brief 16 April 2019

16 April 2019

UNESCO offers help in reconstruction of Notre Dame
One year into Nicaragua crisis, more than 60,000 flee country seeking refuge: UNHCR
Libya: WHO appeals for access amid fears ongoing hostilities may hamper medical supplies distribution

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