UNFPA is expecting more cases of violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation and unintended pregnancy due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

© UNFPA Myanmar/Yenny Gamming

News in Brief 30 June 2020

30 June 2020

Hard times forecast for global job recovery in 2020, warns UN labour agency chief
UN’s Bachelet urges Philippines’ President not to sign new anti-terror law
End harmful practices against women and girls, says UN Population Fund

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Outreach workers in Syria say they are worried about the vulnerability of women and girls under curfew.

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News in Brief 29 June 2020

29 June 2020

Bachelet urges Israel to halt West Bank annexation plans, warns of ‘shockwaves’
Syrians need international solidarity, warn COVID crisis
Food insecurity affecting previously safe communities, insists WFP chief

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A young girl strands in a tent in a settlement for displaced Syrians in the north of Idlib, in Syria.

© UNICEF/Omar Albam

News in Brief 26 June 2020

26 June 2020

Syrians face ‘unprecedented’ hunger amid impending COVID crisis
580 civilians killed so far this year in central Mali – OHCHR
After ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes, dust plumes hit historic proportions

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A medical practitioner measures the temperature of a local resident by infrared thermometer.

UN Photo/Martine Perret

News in Brief 25 June 2020

25 June 2020

DR Congo celebrates end of deadly Ebola outbreak in east
Guterres urges Israel to reconsider annexation of West Bank
Digital tools being used to track people as never before, warns UN rights chief

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IOM in Brazil is supporting Venezuelans and Brazilians in shelters affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

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News in Brief 24 June 2020

24 June 2020

Time to ‘grow back better’ from e-car revolution
World risks being ‘blown off course’ by COVID-19, warns UNAIDS chief
Stranded migrant workers need protection, say UN labour experts (ILO)

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A medical assistant examines a seven-year-old girl in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

© UNICEF/Bashir Ahmed Sujan

News in Brief 23 June 2020

23 June 2020

Extreme weather ‘record’ likely in Arctic Circle: WMO
600 million South Asian children at risk from COVID-19, says UNICEF
UN migration agency appeals for funding to help 460,000 people in central Sahel

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Conflict-damaged homes on the edge of Aden, Yemen.

WFP/Mohammed Awadh

News in Brief 22 June 2020

22 June 2020

Yemen escalation is misguided as people continue to suffer, says UN negotiator
Countries urged to act over potential HIV drug shortages in two months
COVID-19 has hit small and medium-sized enterprises worst, says UN trade agency

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A woman in the Dominican Republic receives food from a Government soup kitchen set up to help fight hunger triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

WFP/Karolyn Ureña

News in Brief 19 June 2020

19 June 2020

'No choice' but to suspend aid flights, warns WFP
Heed ceasefire call in Ukraine, UN rights official urges
Appeal for safe passage across frontlines for Syrian students

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A Rohingya refugee family sit in the doorway of their new monsoon-ready shelter in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

© UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau

News in Brief 18 June 2020

18 June 2020

UN refugee chief laments nearly 80 million forcibly displaced
DR Congo insecurity has worsened considerably, warns UN rights chief
UN health agency calls for global agreement on first COVID-19 vaccine recipient

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George Floyd, an African American, was killed after being restrained by police in the United States.

UN News/Daniel Dickinson

News in Brief 17 June 2020

17 June 2020

I am my brother’s keeper, George Floyd’s brother tells UN rights body
Only one in 10 countries have effective measures against child poverty
US Supreme Court ruling on sexual orientation and gender identity ‘extremely positive’ – UN expert

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