UN commits to long-term support for Afghan mothers and newborns: Najaba’s story
The delivery of reproductive health services, including safe childbirth, has been seriously impacted in Afghanistan,…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: A successful nutrition recipe for visually impaired children
In this week’s show, why cookery classes are proving a hit with visually-impaired children in Rome; we…
News in Brief 28 October 2021
Rights chief says climate action’s the only way to ‘safeguard humanity’ Climate-related disasters causing triple…
Millions missing out on remote learning during emergencies: UNICEF
At least 200 million boys and girls, live in 31 countries which do not have the resources to deal…
UN expert criticises boycott of Durban Process against racism, calls for action
An independent UN expert on Thursday, strongly criticized countries which continue to boycott the 20-year-old Durban Declaration against racism, and called on them to recommit…
Billions more needed for UN-backed global collaboration to end pandemic
A new strategy announced on Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for $23.4…
News in Brief 27 October 2021
Afghanistan facing ‘epic humanitarian crisis’ UN chief warns neighbouring countries. COVID-19 pandemic impact on jobs,…
Latin America and Caribbean sees COVID-19 progress, but must remain vigilant
More than half the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has not been vaccinated…
Victims of human trafficking being ‘punished and stigmatized’
Victims of trafficking by terrorist groups are too often being punished instead of protected, a…
News in Brief 26 October 2021
Planet still on track for catastrophic heating: new Emissions Gap report UN rights chief to…
UN Chief: ‘We need to make lying wrong again’, curb hate speech
The UN Secretary-General warned on Tuesday that “hatred takes root in the soil of ignorance” of historical facts, science, and…
Women under fire in Belarus, activists tortured and exiled – UN expert
While women in Belarus overall are being denied rights and freedoms, female political activists are…
Top economists call for ‘radical redirection’ focusing on healthcare
The World Health Organization (WHO) body advancing public health for all is asking for ambitious investments in healthcare spending, reframing it as a…
News in Brief 25 October 2021
• UN chief, top officials, condemn Sudan coup • Sudan progress on democracy and…
UN experts condemn Israel’s designation of Palestine rights defenders as terrorist organisations
Independent UN human rights experts on Monday strongly condemned the decision by the Israeli Minister of Defence to designate six Palestinian human…
Solidarity echoes throughout Dubai 2020 Expo
Messages of solidarity rang across Expo 2020 in Dubai as participants celebrated UN Day. Deputy…
‘Harbouring’ explained: New publication analyses act of people-trafficking
A new UN publication sheds light on the ways in which victims of human trafficking…
No safe harbour: lifting the lid on a misunderstood trafficking crime
The crime of harbouring, in which victims of human trafficking are accommodated or forced to…
News in Brief 22 October 2021
Libyan Government plan needed to end ‘dire situation’ of asylum seekers, refugees Fears grow for…
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: The ‘Hendrix of the Sahel’, Afghanistan, COVID-19 and forecasting boost
In this week’s show, the “Jimi Hendrix of the Sahel”, also known to his fans as…
UNICEF sounds alarm over abductions of women and children in Haiti
The number of children and women abducted in Haiti until the end of August already surpassed last year’s…
Landmark decision’ gives legal teeth to protect environmental defenders
A 46-strong group of countries across the wider European region has agreed to establish a…
Fears grow for the lives of 5 Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons
Israel has been urged to either release or charge five Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike in…
Women in leadership ‘must be the norm’, Security Council hears
We can no longer exclude half of humanity from international peace and security matters, the…
WFP: Madagascar families facing world’s first potential climate change famine
More than one million people in southern Madagascar are going hungry in what the World…
News in Brief 21 October 2021
$667 million funding call to help Afghans through economic crisis COVID-19 responsible for up to 180,000 health worker deaths: WHO UN…
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WHO announces plan for ‘profound transformation’ following sexual abuse allegations in DR Congo
The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak…
Up to 180,000 health workers may have died from COVID-19
Between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from COVID-19 between January of 2020 and May of this year, the World…
News in Brief 20 October 2021
‘Overzealous’ security services undermining South Sudan peace: rights experts Humanitarian assistance stepped up on Yemen’s west coast Freedom of thought…
Restore sexual, reproductive health rights lost during COVID, rights expert urges
Sexual and reproductive health rights, are human rights, the independent UN expert on the right…
Only ‘real equality’ can end vicious cycle of poverty
Although poverty and privilege “continue to reproduce themselves in vicious cycles”, it is possible to break the chain and shift the…
Rush for new profits posing threat to human rights, UN experts warn
The finance industry’s demand for new sources of capital worldwide to satisfy investors, is having a serious negative impact on the…
Four children killed on their way to school in northwest Syria
Four children – three boys and a girl – were killed on Monday morning while…
‘Overzealous’ security services undermining South Sudan peace: rights experts
State security forces in South Sudan have been responsible for imposing new and potentially arbitrary restrictions against the country’s most prominent civil society…
UN-backed show highlights lifesaving benefit of ‘edutainment’ in South Africa
Young people in South Africa changed their attitudes significantly and adopted safer sexual behaviour, after watching a TV show called Down South –…
News in Brief 19 October 2021
‘Shameful milestone’ in Yemen as child deaths, injuries, pass 10,000 Airstrikes in Tigray mark new intensification in Ethiopian conflict: OCHA 700,000 affected…
Yemen war reaches ‘shameful milestone’ – 10,000 children now killed or maimed
Another “shameful milestone” has been reached in the conflict in Yemen with 10,000 children killed…
Over-compliance with US sanctions hurting Iran’s ‘butterfly kids’
Over-compliance with United States-imposed sanctions against Iran is harming the right to health, and people with a rare skin disease are among…
News in Brief 18 October 2021
Polio vaccination set to recommence across Afghanistan in November – WHO Syrians agree to start drafting new…
‘Sexism and misogyny’ heightened; women’s freedoms supressed
Gender-based violence, hate speech and disinformation are being used extensively online and offline, to chill…
Football star Didier Drogba signs with WHO, as new Goodwill Ambassador
Football legend Didier Drogba on Monday was named the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Read Original…
Taliban backs WHO polio vaccination campaign across Afghanistan next month
The decision by the Taliban leadership to support the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across…
For head of Myanmar Mechanism, time is of essence for accountability
For more than two years, a UN-appointed team of 59 people has been collecting and…
News in Brief 15 October 2021
Displaced in northeast Nigeria ‘knocking on door of starvation’: WFP Yemen ceasefire needed urgently to gain access to…
UN condemns ‘despicable’ suicide attack at mosque in southern Afghanistan
The United Nations has condemned the deadly suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the largest Shia mosque…
Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov won’t keep ‘a single cent’ of his prize money
Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year. He…
Rising poverty a ‘moral indictment of our times’: Guterres
For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, the UN…
Displaced in northeast Nigeria ‘knocking on door of starvation’: WFP
Displaced families in Nigeria’s northeast are “knocking on the door of starvation”, the UN World Food Programme (WFP)…
The right to a clean and healthy environment: 6 things you need to know
On 8 October, loud and unusual applause reverberated around the chamber of the UN Human…
Myanmar: In race against time, experts collect evidence of rights violations
For more than two years, a UN-appointed team of 59 people has been collecting and analyzing more than two million pieces of evidence about possible human rights violations in Myanmar. …