News in Brief

Palestinian boys raise their hands during one of the first classes of the new academic year, at a school in Gaza supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan

News in Brief 31 January 2020

31 January 2020
News in Brief
  • $1.4 billion needed for UNRWA budget
  • US Middle East plan a ‘one and a half State solution’
  • Do not confuse food charity with ‘right to food’, UN expert tells Italy
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3'22"
Refugees from Somalia, Syria and Eritrea who have been released from detention centres in Libya, go through the evacuation procedure with staff at UNHCR's Gathering and Departure Facility in Tripoli, Libya.
© UNHCR/Mohamed Alalem

News in Brief 30 January 2020

30 January 2020
News in Brief
  • UNHCR suspends work at transit site in Libya 
  • End political deadlock in Iraq, top UN official urges 
  • Rights experts commend safe return of Irish woman associated with ISIL 
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3'29"
A health worker examines one-year-old Beatrice in a health clinic in Yola, Adamawa state, northeastern Nigeria.
©UNICEF/SiegfriedModola

News in Brief 29 January 2020

29 January 2020
News in Brief
  • Boosting pneumonia fight could save lives of 9 million children
  • ‘Unprecedented threat’ from rising numbers of Desert Locusts
  • DR Congo can rise above ‘deadly cocktail’ of conflict, rights violations
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2'36"
Humanitarian partners distribute emergency assistance in Ibrahim Khalil village in Iraq.
OCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief 28 January 2020

28 January 2020
News in Brief
  • Iraq: Rights report expresses concerns over ISIL fighter trials
  • Sudan: Violence pushes thousands to flee
  • New financial panel to push Global Goals forward
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3'19"
Secretary-General António Guterres (3rd left) poses for a group photo on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

News in Brief 27 January 2020

27 January 2020
News in Brief
  • Societies must unite against ‘global crisis of antisemitic hatred’
  • Libya: UN report urges accountability for deadly migrant attack
  • UNESCO chief demands justice for killing of Iraqi reporters
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2'55"
A young Burundian refugee completes an exercise on a blackboard at Jugudi Primary School in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Kigoma Province, north-west Tanzania. (February 2019)
© UNHCR/Farha Bhoyroo

News in Brief 24 January 2020

24 January 2020
News in Brief

 

  • 258 million out of school 'unacceptable': UN General Assembly President
  • UN assisting hundreds affected by intercommunal attack in Abyei
  • UN refugee agency calls landmark climate asylum ruling a 'wake-up' call
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3'45"
Young Rohingya boys look out of their shelter at the Hakimpara refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
OCHA/Vincent Tremeau

News in Brief 23 January 2020

23 January 2020
News in Brief
  • Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from genocide
  • 75 years post-Auschwitz, antisemitism still threatens democracy
  • Global forestry gets a boost
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2'56"
Floods that have devastated parts of Somalia, especially Belet Weyne district in Hirshabelle State.
UN Photos

News in Brief 22 January 2020

22 January 2020
News in Brief
  • Independent UN rights experts call for investigation into alleged Saudi hacking
  • UN chief welcomes formation of new Lebanese Government 
  • Somalia: Humanitarian response plan calls for $1 billion in aid  
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2'50"
A colour-enhanced image shows cells infected with the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, US

News in Brief 21 January 2020

21 January 2020
News in Brief
  • China confirms coronavirus transmission between humans
  • Lebanon: UN rights office calls for de-escalation of protest violence
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3'2"
A woman smokes a cigarette.
Unsplash/Fotografierende

News in Brief 20 January 2020

20 January 2020
News in Brief
  • WHO-backed study outlines benefits of quitting smoking prior to surgery
  • UNESCO laments impunity for journalist killings
  • Top humanitarian officials urges continued support for occupied Palestinian territory
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