Coronavirus: demand for face masks creates shortfall for those in real need
Unprecedented global demand for face masks and other protective equipment fuelled by the coronavirus epidemic,…
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Central African Republic: One year after peace deal, a ‘long, steep’ road ahead to ensure child rights protections
A year since the signing of a peace deal between the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14…
News in Brief 6 February 2020
Faster action needed to stop 61 million girls facing FGM Millions of CAR children still…
Ending FGM possible in ten years with youth support: UN reproductive health official
If young people can be mobilized worldwide to help stamp out the practice of Female…
Slight fall in coronavirus infections ‘nothing to celebrate’, says UN health agency
A slight drop overnight in the number of people infected by the new coronavirus is…
News in Brief 5 February 2020
‘Tremendous gap’ between refugee resettlement and placements: UNHCR UN refugee chief wraps up visit to three countries…
Female Genital Mutilation costs $1.4 billion annually: UN health agency
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) poses serious risks to the health and well-being of women and girls, but it also exacts a crippling economic toll,…
$675 million appeal to stop coronavirus in its tracks, as deaths rise
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) appealed on Wednesday for $675 million to…
South Sudan: UN official welcomes release of women and children abducted by armed group
The expert leading UN efforts to stamp out sexual violence committed during wartime has welcomed the release of 78 women and…
Mediation, guidance and wisdom: the UN contribution to peace and security
Rosemary DiCarlo, a veteran diplomat, has been in charge of the Department of Political and…
News in Brief 4 February 2020
Both sides in Libya conflict agree need for ceasefire that lasts WHO moves fast to tackle coronavirus ‘infodemic’ Daily…
Coronavirus: UN health agency moves fast to tackle ‘infodemic’; Guterres warns against stigmatization
The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken steps to ensure that the coronavirus epidemic that…
FROM THE FIELD: ‘A piece of me’ was taken
“My flesh has been taken away, but I can never give away my heart”; those…
FROM THE FIELD: ‘A piece of me’ was taken – women talk about genital mutilation
“My flesh has been taken away, but I can never give away my heart”; those…
News in Brief 3 February 2020
Libya talks begin in Geneva Sick patients airlifted from Yemeni capital WHO highlights worsening health threats…
Tackle ‘unacceptable inequalities’ in cancer care, saving up to seven million lives, WHO urges
Global cancer rates could rise by 60 per cent over the next 20 years unless…
Coronavirus emergency: here’s what we know so far
A new strain of coronavirus (officially named 2019-nCoV), which has caused respiratory diseases in China,…
‘Antisemitism fuelled the Holocaust and didn’t end’ 75 years ago, says education expert
Some were workers, some teachers, some neighbours. Many ordinary people enabled the Holocaust simply by…
East Africa locust outbreak could provoke humanitarian crisis: UN food agency
The Desert Locust outbreak in the Horn of Africa could provoke a humanitarian crisis, the UN Food and…
News in Brief 31 January 2020
$1.4 billion needed for UNRWA budget US Middle East plan a ‘one and a half…
‘If cities don’t develop sustainably, neither will the world’
The challenges facing cities will be highlighted at the World Urban Forum, held in Abu…
$1.4 billion needed this year to fund UN’s agency for Palestine refugees
A minimum of $1.4 billion is needed to fund the UN Relief and Works Agency…
US Middle East peace plan ‘lopsided’, says independent UN rights expert
A United States plan released this week to resolve the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is “lopsided” and…
Do not confuse food charity with ‘right to food’, UN expert tells Italians, labelling food system exploitative
A sophisticated Italian food system is placing a heavy burden on Italy’s workers and farmers,…
News in Brief 30 January 2020
UNHCR suspends work at transit site in Libya End political deadlock in Iraq, top UN official…
Coding in Namibia: UN supports young women’s computing career dreams
Six young women from Namibia are on the path to a career in the field of information and…
Coronavirus spread now a global emergency declares World Health Organization
The rise in new coronavirus cases outside China, now constitutes a global health emergency, the…
Iraq: Solutions needed ‘urgently’ to quell ongoing violence, break political deadlock
Amidst ongoing anti-government protests, rising casualties and the likelihood of further demonstrations, the top UN…
India: Climate emergency message resonates at world’s largest literature festival – UN News special report from Jaipur
Against the backdrop of India’s famed “pink city” of Jaipur, the world’s largest literature festival…
Stepped-up efforts needed to combat pneumonia; save nearly nine million children’s lives
Scaling up pneumonia-related interventions could save the lives of nearly nine million children during the…
DR Congo: UN rights chief says human rights are improving
Following a five-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where instability, inter-communal violence and disease…
News in Brief 28 January 2020
Iraq: Rights report expresses concerns over ISIL fighter trials Sudan: Violence pushes thousands to flee…
2019: A deadly year for migrants crossing the Americas
More than 800 people died last year crossing deserts, rivers and remote lands while migrating…
Iraq: UN human rights report voices concern over conduct of ISIL fighter trials
A new UN report published on Tuesday shows that while considerable effort has been made by Iraqi authorities to bring former ISIL terrorist fighters to justice,…
‘Time for justice for Roma’, Senior expert urges on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Dan Pavel Doghi, Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti issues for the Organization for Security…
News in Brief 27 January 2020
Societies must unite against ‘global crisis of antisemitic hatred’ Libya: UN report urges accountability for…
‘Carry our stories forward’: Holocaust survivors share powerful testimonies at UN
When the Nazis invaded Poland, overnight, nine-year-old Theodor Meron became “a refugee, out of school,…
UN health agency team in China to strengthen partnership on coronavirus response
The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) is in China to discuss the novel coronavirus outbreak with senior Government…
Societies must unite against ‘global crisis of antisemitic hatred’, Guterres urges
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and the six…
Libya: UN report urges accountability for deadly attack against migrant centre
Warring parties in Libya, as well as foreign governments supporting them, are being urged to investigate deadly…
End discrimination against women and children affected by leprosy
Governments must put an end to the informal segregation and institutionalized neglect of hundreds of…
UN heath agency: Time is now to ‘act as one’ in fighting infectious coronavirus
Following confirmed cases of the Novel coronavirus in Europe, the United Nations health agency released…
Combatting antisemitism requires ‘solidarity in the face of hatred’, says UN chief
Against the backdrop of a constant stream of attacks targeting Jews, their institutions and property, UN Secretary-General…
PODCAST: The Last Cherry Blossom, a story of survival
Yuriko was just a 12 year-old growing up in Hiroshima, when the devastating mushroom cloud…
‘Default male bias’ makes for generations of ‘invisible women’, author tells UN audience
Although women make up half the global population, they are often disregarded in the increasingly important world of big data: from measuring…
News in Brief 24 January 2020
258 million out of school ‘unacceptable’: UN General Assembly President UN assisting hundreds affected…
The drive for quality education worldwide, faces ‘mammoth challenges’
Aligning inclusive, quality education with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was centre-stage on Friday, as…
Haiti cholera outbreak ‘stopped in its tracks’
After a nine-year long cholera outbreak in Haiti that killed close to 10,000 people, this…
Health services for Syrian women caught up in war, foster safety and hope: UNFPA
Continued displacement from conflict-affected areas in northeast Syria leaves women and girls in urgent need…
Quality education: ‘Key to life’
All societies are undermined without quality schooling for all said the President of the UN…