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News in Brief 6 April 2022

  • Ukraine: UNESCO condemns killing of film director Mantas Kvedaravicius

  • COVID deaths and infections continue to fall globally

  • Africa faces rising climate-linked health emergencies, warns WHO

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News in Brief 5 April 2022

  • Ukraine: UN’s Guterres joins call for Bucha killings probe

  • Sri Lanka authorities urged to respect freedom of expression – OHCHR

  • First aid convoy in months reaches Ethiopia’s Tigray – WFP

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News in Brief 4 April 2022

  • Ukraine: UN Secretary-General expresses shock over Bucha killings

  • UN climate report: urgent action must be taken to mitigate environment catastrophe

  • More than 90 feared dead in new Mediterranean tragedy

 

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News in Brief 1 April 2022

  • Ukraine: Mariupol evacuation is ready, there is no Plan B

  • Aid call in Uganda after 10,000 people flee violence in DRC

  • UN’s rights council adopts disinformation resolution, States urged to tackle hate speech

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News in Brief 31 March 2022

 

  • UN chief lauds new net zero climate change emissions initiative
  • Afghanistan appeal: life hangs by a thread, warns UN relief chief
  • WHO launches bid to stop future arbovirus pandemic
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News in Brief 30 March 2022

  • Ukraine: Russia used cluster weapons at least 24 times, warns UN’s Bachelet

  • Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended, says UN Population Fund

  • Rape and violations of children’s rights still rife in CAR

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News in Brief 29 March 2022

  • Ukraine war could create widespread food insecurity, warns FAO

  • UN’s atomic watchdog chief in Ukraine to support nuclear power plants

  • Dire impact from floods in South Sudan as new wet season looms

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News in Brief 28 March 2022

  • Ukraine relief effort steps up with 1,000 tonnes of emergency aid now sent

  • Libya detention centres remain places of violations and abuse: experts

  • UN’s Bachelet hails ‘millions of voices’ tackling racial discrimination

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News in Brief 24 March 2022

  • Ukraine war: half of country’s children now displaced 

  • WHO publishes first-ever country estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion

  • UNCTAD calls for IMF, World Bank measures as global downturn bites

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