News in Brief

The World Food Programme says that more than one-third of the rural population in Zimbabwe will be food insecure by October 2019.
WFP/Tatenda Macheka

News in Brief 31 October 2019

31 October 2019
News in Brief
  • Severe food insecurity alert for 45 million people across Southern Africa
  • Rights experts call for release of Palestinian hunger striker
  • New WHO report targets leading causes of urban deaths
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3'33"
Palacio Colinas de Boe, People's National Assembly Building of Guinea-Bissau.
Alexandre Soares

News in Brief 30 October 2019

30 October 2019
News in Brief

 

  • UN chief voices ‘serious concern’ over Guinea-Bissau political crisis
  • IOM suspends South Sudan Ebola screening, after death of volunteers
  •  

    Negative racial stereotyping of people of African descent has ‘systemic impact’

 

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3'40"
As countries face more political, technical, socioeconomic and other barriers, increased climate ambition is central to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Vendors are photographed in Kashmir before going to a floating market.
©John Isaac

News in Brief 29 October 2019

29 October 2019
News in Brief
  • India should ‘unlock’ freedom curbs in disputed Kashmir, urges UN human rights chief
  • UN confirms delivery of food aid to more than 300,000 vulnerable Syrians in troubled northeast
  • El Salvador’s ‘double burden’ of malnutrition and obesity is equivalent to 10% of GDP – WFP report
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3'14"
Press Encounter
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

News in Brief 28 October 2019

28 October 2019
News in Brief
  • Syria envoy urges prisoner release as Constitutional Committee prepares to start work in Geneva
  • ‘Multi-generational tragedy’ in Israel and Palestine demands political will for two-State solution
  • Egypt must end repression of protesters and rights defenders, UN experts decry
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4'24"
Mafa, a camp for internally displaced people in Borno State, north-east Nigeria, January 2018.
OCHA/Yasmina Guerda

News in Brief 25 October 2019

25 October 2019
News in Brief
  • More than 140,000 displaced in northeast Nigeria   
  • UN rights chief orders probe into rights abuses in Chile   
  • New findings on treating malignant lung disease   
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3'26"
A little boy is vaccinated against polio in Sa’ada, Yemen. (file) Photo: UNICEF/UN026952/Madhok
© UNICEF/UN026952/Madhok

News in Brief 24 October 2019

24 October 2019
News in Brief
  • "Historic" eradication of wild poliovirus strain
  • UN agencies and partners step up support to north-east Syria
  • Weather experts call for protection of life-saving radio frequencies

 

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3'38"
An injured boy rests on the ground of a makeshift camp in Syria's Aqrabat village, 45km north of Idlib City, near the Turkish border. (June 2019)
© UNICEF/UN0318500/Watad

News in Brief 23 October 2019

23 October 2019
News in Brief
  • New High-Level Panel to support millions internally-displaced
  • Safe and healthy working conditions still not upheld as universal human right
  • UN Environment campaign to help disappearing snow leopard thrive
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3'25"
Destruction in Tripoli, Libya.
OCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 22 October 2019

22 October 2019
News in Brief
  • UN food agency reaches besieged Yemenis
  • Children killed and injured in ongoing Libya fighting
  • Turkish assault on northern Syria has ‘significant humanitarian impact’
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2'59"
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, addresses the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 24 June 2019.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

News in Brief 21 October 2019

21 October 2019
News in Brief
  • UN rights chief calls for "immediate dialogue" in Chile
  • Security Council visits South Sudan
  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees praises Zambia
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3'27"
Vulnerable resident of Odessa, in Ukraine, looking at IOM counter-trafficking installation.
IOM

News in Brief 18 October 2019

18 October 2019
News in Brief
  • Amid ongoing fighting in north-east Syria, civilians continue to flee violence
  • Unprecedented flooding affects thousands of locals, refugees in South Sudan
  • Modern-day ‘farm slave’ rescue highlights pervasive human trafficking in Ukraine
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