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News in Brief 25 April 2024
April 25, 2024 15:57 - 3 minutes - 5.5 MBTeen alcohol and nicotine use in Europe is up, WHO urges preventive measureUK gender change therapy review reveals devastating impacts on kids, says top rights expertIndependent rights body to investigate fate of missing persons in Syria
News in Brief 24 April 2024
April 24, 2024 15:31 - 4 minutes - 7.34 MBGaza: People ‘are clearly dying’ from hunger, warns UN food agency Global hunger set to rise amid record displacement, warn FAO, UNHCRTanzania in rights spotlight over ritual attacks on people with albinsm
News in Brief 23 April 2024
April 23, 2024 15:31 - 3 minutes - 6.1 MBGaza mass graves uncovered with victims’ hands tied: UN’s TürkEthiopia clashes displace 50,000, warn UN humanitarians Asia, the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate shocks: WMO
News in Brief 22 April 2024
April 22, 2024 16:59 - 4 minutes - 7.09 MBGaza violence continues unabated, claims lives of civiliansClimate shocks lie behind rise in workplace dangers and deaths: ILOAirlines, aviation authorities should not facilitate unlawful removals to Rwanda, top rights experts say
News in Brief 19 April 2024
April 19, 2024 16:45 - 4 minutes - 5.78 MBPandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans Rights chief Türk urges peace for shattered DR Congo communities Fears of Middle East escalation undiminished amid ongoing violence
News in Brief 18 April 2024
April 18, 2024 15:31 - 4 minutes - 6.19 MBPandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans Rights chief Türk urges peace for shattered DR Congo communities Fears of Middle East escalation undiminished amid ongoing violence
News in Brief 17 April 2024
April 17, 2024 19:35 - 4 minutes - 3.89 MB$2.8 billion flash appeal launched in support of three million across Gaza and West BankViolations of women’s reproductive health rights trigger rise in preventable deaths, says UNFPALives depend on success of Cameroon emergency appeal: Humanitarians
News in Brief 16 April 2024
April 16, 2024 16:01 - 3 minutes - 5.58 MBGaza: No let up in deadly toll as rights chief calls for end to civilian suffering Ethiopia hunger rates focus of pledging forum: OCHAUN migration agency calls for $112 million to save lives in Africa and Yemen
News in Brief 15 April 2024
April 15, 2024 16:05 - 3 minutes - 5.61 MBGaza: Rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli militarySudan crisis in international spotlight one year since war beganGrower taskforce mulls action to tackle spike in plant pests
News in Brief 12 April 2024
April 12, 2024 15:02 - 4 minutes - 6.03 MBGaza: No improvement in aid access to north, insists senior UN aid official Sudan facing looming famine, warn humanitariansUkraine war leaves 3.3 million in dire need on frontlines: IOM
News in Brief 11 April 2024
April 11, 2024 17:25 - 3 minutes - 2.44 MBLife-threatening heat alert for children in east Asia: UNICEFMyanmar middle class ‘disappearing’: UN development reportGaza: Security Council demands accountability for humanitarian attacks
News in Brief 9 April 2024
April 09, 2024 19:26 - 4 minutes - 3.68 MB‘Fear and loss’ for Sudanese displaced by brutal fightingHepatitis killing thousands each day and numbers rising: WHODozens of migrants perish in Djibouti shipwreck
News in Brief 8 April 2024
April 08, 2024 17:30 - 4 minutes - 5.68 MBPalestine UN membership in spotlight amid Rafah invasion fears Attacks on Ukrainian nuclear facilities ‘must cease immediately’: UN atomic watchdogHealthcare ‘inaccessible’ for displaced people, warns UN migration agency
News in Brief 5 April 2024
April 05, 2024 16:53 - 4 minutes - 6.41 MBIsrael must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military strategySudan: UN food agency convoy reaches Darfurs for first time in monthsGlobal deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera
News in Brief 4 April 2024
April 04, 2024 15:05 - 3 minutes - 2.47 MBUkraine: Ambulance teams at 3 times greater risk of death and injuryHuman Rights Council resolution demands further Iran violations probeMore than 700 attacks by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
News in Brief 3 April 2024
April 03, 2024 15:50 - 4 minutes - 3.51 MBHaiti: Armed gangs continue assault on healthcareUN teams in Sudan and South Sudan team up over crucial medical aidEgypt must halt executions, urge UN human rights experts
News in Brief 2 April 2024
April 02, 2024 15:46 - 3 minutes - 5.17 MBGaza: health system ‘barely surviving’ warns UN health agency chiefUkrainians suffer Russia-imposed ‘violence, intimidation, and coercion’, Türk tells Human Rights Council Malawi drought affects nearly two million farming families
News in Brief 1 April 2024
April 01, 2024 16:09 - 3 minutes - 4.14 MBProtect Gaza hospitals: WHO chiefAfghanistan: Children killed or injured in two mine blastsHeavy rains destroy homes and farmland in Afghanistan
News in Brief 28 March 2024
March 28, 2024 15:36 - 3 minutes - 4.67 MBGaza: health system ‘barely surviving’ warns UN health agency chiefSudan’s 24 million children have a right to live in peace: UNICEF Refugee agency launches $1.4 billion appeal for South Sudan
News in Brief 27 March 2024
March 27, 2024 19:05 - 4 minutes - 5.74 MBGaza war: ‘Direct hits’ on more than 200 schools since Israeli bombing began 783 million people go hungry today but one-fifth of all food goes to waste Cameroon: vital aid assistance under threat, warn UNHCR, WFP
News in Brief 26 March 2024
March 26, 2024 16:57 - 3 minutes - 5.43 MBGaza: ‘Double-digit’ number of children reported killed overnightOne in three migrant deaths linked to countries at war or with large refugee populationsDevastating humanitarian crisis in DR Congo: UNHCR
News in Brief 25 March 2024
March 25, 2024 15:51 - 4 minutes - 6.04 MBWe must push for lasting peace in Gaza, UN chief insists, as starvation threat nears Deadly cholera infections spreading fast in Somalia, warn UN aid teamsYemen conflict enters 10th year with 17 million-plus people in need of health aid
News in Brief 22 March 2024
March 22, 2024 17:10 - 3 minutes - 5.12 MBGaza: UN aid team reaches stricken north, confirms ‘shocking’ disease and hunger Mass grave found in Libya highlights migrant horror, says UN migration agencyAid ramps up to Mozambique communities impacted by tropical storm Filipo
News in Brief 21 March 2024
March 21, 2024 17:56 - 4 minutes - 5.89 MBAmid ongoing strife in Gaza and Ukraine, UN chief reiterates peace call Sudan war could see 222,000 children die from malnutrition, says aid coordinatorMobile phones called to order for part in 62 million tonnes of e-waste
News in Brief 20 March 2024
March 20, 2024 17:41 - 4 minutes - 6.38 MBGaza: Less than 1 in 2 UN aid missions allowed into northern zones this month M-pox deaths falling everywhere but Africa, says UN health agency expert panel Belarus opponents ‘increasingly oppressed and punished’: Human Rights Council
News in Brief 19 March 2024
March 19, 2024 16:12 - 4 minutes - 5.89 MBGaza: Increasing numbers of newborns on brink of death, agencies warnForced labour exploiters make $236 billion a year, says ILO More climate records smashed, WMO report confirms
News in Brief 18 March 2024
March 18, 2024 16:56 - 3 minutes - 5.54 MBFamine could happen ‘anytime’ in Gaza’s northern governorates, warn UN humanitarians Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests, say rights investigators ‘Pandemic treaty’ deal enters final round of negotiations
News in Brief 15 March 2024
March 15, 2024 16:07 - 4 minutes - 6.2 MBI lost hope and will to live in Russian jail, says Ukraine prisoner of war Gaza: Nearly 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’Sudan: hunger ‘pervasive’ in Khartoum streets, warns UNICEF
News in Brief 13 March 2024
March 14, 2024 23:16 - 4 minutes - 5.88 MBGaza: More children dead from war than from four years of global conflict Ukraine: Condemnation after Russian strike kills dozens in Dnipro regionWith internal displacement at a record high, UN aid chief backs solutions
News in Brief 14 March 2024
March 14, 2024 16:33 - 4 minutes - 5.9 MBGaza: Aid missions risk being halted without security guaranteesHaiti crisis: UN mission announces airbridge to facilitate aid relief Human Rights Council: Climate crisis a principal factor in global hunger emergency
News in Brief 12 March 2024
March 12, 2024 15:44 - 4 minutes - 5.63 MBGaza: Ceasefire now, urges UN Secretary-General on first day of RamadanWFP races to preposition aid in Chad for Sudan’s displacedRampant abuse of counter-terrorism laws globally, Human Rights Council hears
News in Brief 11 March 2024
March 11, 2024 17:10 - 3 minutes - 5.52 MBGaza: Ceasefire now, urges UN Secretary-General on first day of RamadanSyria in grip of violence not seen in years, warn top rights expertsTruth and justice call for disappeared Thai lawyer
News in Brief 8 March 2024
March 08, 2024 18:01 - 3 minutes - 2.62 MBMarking International Women’s Day, UN chief launches plan to tackle baked-in bias Rafah ground assault would increase risk of atrocity crimes Mozambique: Thousands displaced over fear of violence
News in Brief 7 March 2024
March 07, 2024 16:26 - 3 minutes - 4.65 MBGaza: Fears over growing toll of starvation among youngSudan: UN chief leads call for Ramadan cessation of hostilitiesNigeria mass abductions condemned
News in Brief 6 March 2024
March 06, 2024 16:35 - 3 minutes - 5.41 MBGaza humanitarian update 11 months into Sudan war, ‘world's worst hunger crisis’ looms 2023 was deadliest year on record for migrants
News in Brief 5 March 2024
March 05, 2024 17:34 - 3 minutes - 4.84 MBNorth Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hungerEl Niño weakens but impacts continueDrug controls: UN-backed body offers e-solutions to counter narcotics surge
News in Brief 4 March 2024
March 04, 2024 17:46 - 3 minutes - 5.34 MBGaza: Gaza conflict could fuel much wider Middle East ‘conflagration’, warns UN rights chiefTürk: ‘Mega election year’ 2024 could be a landmark for democracy: Pacific accounts for nine in 10 most obese countries in the world (WHO)
News in Brief 1 March 2024
March 01, 2024 17:45 - 3 minutes - 5.59 MBGaza: Worst famine fears realized as 10th child reportedly starves to deathMyanmar crisis now a never-ending nightmare, warns UN rights chiefSudan’s displaced in desperate need of basics to survive: UNHCR
News in Brief 29 February 2024
February 29, 2024 16:02 - 3 minutes - 5.42 MB‘Carnage’ in Gaza must end, UN rights chief tells Human Rights CouncilRisks from climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss are realUN chief “committed” to Sudan as UNITAMS mission ends
News in Brief 28 February 2024
February 28, 2024 15:46 - 4 minutes - 5.75 MBGaza: Famine imminent without more aid relief, warn UN humanitarians All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief Aid agencies underscore need to help Ethiopians brought low by climate, war and disease
News in Brief 27 February 2024
February 27, 2024 15:54 - 3 minutes - 4.49 MBGaza: Frustration mounts over blocked UN aid missions Peacekeepers’ alarm over exchanges of fire on Israel-Lebanon border $9 billion investment boost for global internet connectivity: ITU
News in Brief 26 February 2024
February 26, 2024 15:41 - 3 minutes - 5.07 MBWith eyes on Gaza, UN chief launches rights protection pledge UN migration agency teams up with top manufacturer against ‘slave’ labour Russian anti-war campaigner’s harassment reflects pressure on judiciary: top rights expert
News in Brief 23 February 2024
February 23, 2024 17:44 - 4 minutes - 5.64 MBUkraine: Frontline children and mental traumaUN human rights report details Sudan war abuses Rights experts call for arms embargo on Israel
News in Brief 22 February 2024
February 22, 2024 18:50 - 3 minutes - 2.49 MBShock and desperation throughout Gaza, Security Council hearsHorrific war in Ukraine will be felt ‘for generations’ warns rights chiefUNHCR welcomes AU Protocol to end scourge of statelessness
News in Brief 21 February 2024
February 21, 2024 17:19 - 3 minutes - 2.62 MBWHO chief says severe malnutrition is soaring in Gaza, SudanUS companies dumping “forever chemicals” with impunity: UN expertsInternational Mother Language Day
News in Brief 20 February 2024
February 20, 2024 15:53 - 3 minutes - 8.58 MBWFP pauses food delivery to north GazaUkraine war and ongoing uncertainty among displaced people$2.6 billion appeal for DR Congo
News in Brief 19 February 2024
February 19, 2024 18:36 - 3 minutes - 2.85 MBRafah invasion would have “dire humanitarian consequences”25 million battle hunger due to Sudan warHuman rights must “guide” transition to lasting peace in South Sudan
News in Brief 16 February 2024
February 16, 2024 18:16 - 3 minutes - 8.11 MBGuterres calls for a ‘global order that works for everyone’UN human rights office ‘appalled’ by Alexei Navalny’s death in prisonLack of social protection puts 1.4 billion children at risk
News in Brief 15 February 2024
February 15, 2024 16:51 - 3 minutes - 2.52 MBGaza: Situation dire in Rafah UN agencies warnUN weather agency declares warmest January everOn International Childhood Cancer Day, WHO hails vital role of parents
News in Brief 14 February 2024
February 14, 2024 16:45 - 3 minutes - 5.42 MBGaza: Rafah invasion would be a disaster ‘beyond imagination’ UNICEF steps up fight against cholera in eastern and southern Africa Condemnation for new attacks on public cases in Ukraine