News in Brief

Early morning in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Unsplash/ Mohammad Rahmani

News in Brief 31 August 2021

31 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: far more lifesaving medical supplies needed: WHO
  • UNHCR stands ready to help Afghan neighbours offer shelter
  • Mali uptick in civilian killings, warns UN mission MINUSMA
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A health worker cares for a young boy in Parwan Province, Afghanistan in November 2020.
© WFP/ Massoud Hossaini

News in Brief 30 August 2021

30 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: lifesaving medical supplies reach Mazar-i-Sharif - WHO
  • UN COVID-19 measures unveiled to help keep schools
  • UNHCR calls for all States to join the effort to eradicate statelessness
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Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, pictured in June 2020.
ADB/Jawad Jalali

News in Brief 27 August 2021

27 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Security Council condemns ‘deplorable terrorist attacks’ near Kabul airport  
  • WHO warns that medical supplies for Afghanistan are running low
  • More children than ever before live outside their country of birth as migrants or refugees – UNICEF report
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Human Rights Committee member José Manuel Santos Pais speaks out on the case of Former Judge Baltasar Garzón of the Spanish National Court. (file)
UN News/Daniel Johnson

News in Brief 26 August 2021

26 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Trials of former prominent Spanish judge ‘arbitrary’ - UN Committee
  • Coming months critical for future pandemic preparedness: WHO chief
  • ‘Serious concern’ over Malawi’s decision to reinstate the death penalty 
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Young girls carry water from a source in Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
© UNICEF/Scott Moncrieff

News in Brief 25 August 2021

25 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Bubonic plague puts young lives at risk in DR Congo: UNICEF
  • UNHCR chief calls for greater support for the nearly 7 million forcibly displaced from Sudan and South Sudan
  • High blood pressure now more common in low and middle-income countries, new report finds
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet addresses the Human Rights Council Special Session on Afghanistan.
UNOG

News in Brief 24 August 2021

24 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: women’s liberty a red line, says UN rights chief Bachelet
  • Shelter needs soar for displaced in Yemen’s Marib region
  • Rights experts condemn Cambodia’s crackdown on freedom activists
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A UNICEF-supported community-based school in Jalalabad, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, before the Taliban seized control of the country. (file)
UNAMA/Shafiqullah Waak

News in Brief 23 August 2021

23 August 2021
News in Brief
  • WHO and UNICEF call for humanitarian air bridge in Afghanistan
  • Brazil’s Supreme Court must uphold indigenous land rights – UN expert
  • Refugee Para athletes prepare for Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
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A UNICEF-supported community-based school in Jalalabad, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, before the Taliban seized control of the country. (file)
UNAMA/Shafiqullah Waak

News in Brief 20 August 2021

20 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Aid access to Afghanistan holding amid uncertainty and fear: UN agencies 
  • UN deputy chief arrives in Haiti with message of solidarity 
  • Burkina Faso: UN chief condemns deadly attack on northern town, 80 reported dead 
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A woman looks across her village in Indonesia which was destroyed in a tsunami.
OCHA/Anthony Burke

News in Brief 19 August 2021

19 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Race is on to limit impact of extreme weather on most vulnerable: Guterres
  • Minorities must be at heart of bid to save planet’s biodiversity: rights expert 
  • UN launches strategy for digital transformation of peacekeeping
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Young girls gather at a camp for displaced people in Kandahar in southwestern Afghanistan.
© UNICEF Afghanistan

News in Brief 18 August 2021

18 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan aid and medical lifeline to millions must not be cut, warns WHO
  • Fuel crisis in Lebanon ‘a potential catastrophe for thousands’: UN  
  • Defend trans community rights, Bachelet tells Copenhagen forum 
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