News in Brief

Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Nils Melzer.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

News in Brief 31 May 2019

31 May 2019
News in Brief
  • States accused of 'ganging up' on Wikileaks' Assange
  • Asia-Pacific resolutions, solid foundation for SDGs
  • Somali refugees continue to flee Yemen: UNHCR
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In Aachen, Germany, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres receives the Charlemagne Prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification. (30 May 2019)
UNFCCC/James Dowson

News in Brief 30 May 2019

30 May 2019
News in Brief
  • A ‘strong and united Europe’ never more needed, declares UN chief Guterres
  • UN’s women’s health agency ‘strongly’ condemns gang rape of child in Somalia
  • A major win for transgender rights
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Performer of the Beijing opera
UN Photo/John Isaac

News in Brief 29 May 2019

29 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Tobacco still killing eight million every year - UN health agency
  • China’s ‘remarkable’ creative economy marches ahead
  • Family farms are ‘drivers of sustainable development’
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Nigerian refugees flee Boko Haram attacks in north-eastern Nigeria.
© UNHCR/Hélène Caux

News in Brief 28 May 2019

28 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Thousands flee into Niger, following violent attacks in Nigeria
  • North Korea traps people in deprivation, corruption, repression and bribery – OHCHR
  • Anti-Semitism spread is not isolated, warns UN human rights office
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Rahaf Ali Bedaish, 8, carries her little brother Ahmed, 2, outside their tent at the Dharawan settlement. They have been displaced from Taizz governorate since the beginning of the conflict.
UNHCR/Mohammed Hamoud

News in Brief 27 May 2019

27 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Yemen war update as 27 children are killed in just over 10 days
  • UN Mission in Libya, alarmed over attacks, kidnapping
  • Major new UN Habitat Assembly gets underway in Nairobi
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Afghanistan’s education system has been devastated by more than three decades of sustained conflict. For many of the country’s children, completing primary school remains a distant dream. Here, 10-year-old Fatima is on the board to solve a math question, at the ALC in Baghe Mellat, Herat.
© UNICEF/UN0212108/Mohammadi

News in Brief 24 May 2019

24 May 2019
News in Brief
  • $7 million funding appeal to help most vulnerable children in Afghanistan
  • UN health agency applauds Brazilian compensation bid from tobacco giants
  • Myanmar refugees face even greater water shortages in Bangladesh camps
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet (file).
UN Photo/Laura Jarriel

News in Brief 23 May 2019

23 May 2019
News in Brief
  • DR Congo: ‘No time to lose’ says newly appointed Ebola response coordinator 
  • Draft El Salvador bill could give amnesty to serious human rights violators, Bachelet warns
  • First ever UN conference on ending sexual and gender-based violence underway  
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Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
UNODC

News in Brief 22 May 2019

22 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Fighting hate crimes in the courts: UN justice experts meet at Vienna conference
  • UK Government austerity measures have led to ‘record levels of hunger and homelessness’ : independent UN expert
  • Algeria and Argentina officially recognized as malaria-free
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Each morning, around 5 am, hundreds of boys and girls cross the border from Venezuela to head to the buses that will take them to school in Cucuta, Colombia. (April 2019)
UNICEF/Arcos

News in Brief 21 May 2019

21 May 2019
News in Brief
  • UN food agency still seeking agreement with Yemen’s Houthis to stop aid diversion
  • ISIL children held in ‘secret detention facilities’, UN human rights office warns
  • Venezuela’s masses need international protection, urges UNHCR
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The wreckage of a boat that sank in the Mediterranean in April 2015 with the loss of at least 800 refugees is displayed at the Venice Biennale. The boat was lifted from the seabed by the Italian government and brought to Venice by Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Buchel.
UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

News in Brief 20 May 2019

20 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Italy proposal to fine migrant rescue boats condemned by human rights experts
  • Ebola threat still ‘very high’ in DRC, warns WHO chief
  • On World Bee day, human activity blamed for falling pollinator populations
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