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Edited News | WHO
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen an increase in the number of reported cases of the deadly haemorrhagic virus Ebola linked to ongoing violence by armed groups targeting remote communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. According to the UN agency’s latest outbreak update, 27 new cases were identified last...
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Edited News | OCHA , WHO , UNOG
Efforts to help the small Pacific island of Samoa overcome a deadly measles outbreak have received a $2.6 million boost from the UN’s emergency fund, CERF. The development – announced in New York by the organisation’s emergency relief chief Mark Lowcock - comes as deaths from the preventable disease reached 70, the vast majority being children...
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Edited News | OHCHR
As more information gradually filters out of Iran in the wake of the recent protests, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday expressed alarm “at the continuing lack of transparency about casualties and the treatment” of thousands of detainees, as well as continuing arrests reported to be taking place across the...
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Edited News | UNHCR
“The Brazilian government continues to lead the humanitarian response for the most vulnerable Venezuelans arriving in the country, while also promoting innovative, open and generous ways to support their socio-economic inclusion” for some 224,000 Venezuelans already in Brazil, UN Refugee Agency said on Friday in Geneva.
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Edited News | UNICEF , OCHA , UNESCO , WMO
A record 166 million people worldwide will need help and protection in crises spanning more than 50 countries in 2020, the UN’s emergency relief chief said, in an appeal for nearly $29 billion in humanitarian aid from donors. Climatic shocks, large infectious disease outbreaks and intensifying, protracted conflicts have resulted in global needs...
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Edited News | UNHCR , WHO , UNOG , WFP
Violence in DRC Ebola hotspot leaves people ‘caught in crossfire’, disrupts aid relief. Attacks on communities in an Ebola outbreak hotspot in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have created a humanitarian crisis and threatened aid distribution, the UN said on Friday, amid reports of serious civil unrest.
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Edited News | UNOG
Footage of Syrian Constitutional Committee Arrivals featuring delegations representing the Government, Opposition and Civil Society at United Nations Geneva on Monday 26 November 2019, includes various cutaways.
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Edited News | UNOG
New HIV infections are in decline worldwide and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment, according to a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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Edited News | UNOG , UNEP
Climate procrastination means we now need to cut emissions by more than half, urge UN climate experts. The world must more than halve greenhouse gas emissions in the next 10 years – by some 30 billion tonnes - to try to limit average global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, leading UN scientists said on Tuesday.
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Edited News | UNOG
Footage of Syrian Constitutional Committee Arrivals featuring delegations representing the Government, Opposition and Civil Society at United Nations Geneva on Monday 25 November 2019, includes various cutaways.