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WHO: ‘We Believe Monkeypox Outbreak Can Be Stopped’
Wednesday, 27 July 2022, 6:06 am | UN News
The rapidly spreading Monkeypox outbreak can be stopped, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, “with the right strategies in the right groups”. But “ time is going by and we all need to pull together to make that happen ”, warned ... More >>
‘Do One Thing’ To Save Lives On World Drowning Prevention Day: WHO
Tuesday, 26 July 2022, 7:03 am | UN News
More than 236,000 people die annually from drowning - among the leading causes of death for those aged one to 24 years, and the third leading cause of injury deaths worldwide overall - the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, urging everyone ... More >>
Best Way To Protect Children Caught In Conflict Is To ‘Champion Peace’: Gamba
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 5:43 am | UN News
The best way to protect children and prevent violations against them during armed conflict is to “promote and champion peace,” the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict told the Security Council on Tuesday. In her formal presentation ... More >>
Afghanistan: Report Highlights Multiple Human Rights Violations And Abuses Under Taliban
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 5:41 am | UN News
A new report from the UN Mission in Afghanistan ( UNAMA ) released on Wednesday, confirms the erosion of basic human rights across the country since the Taliban takeover in August last year, pointing out they bear responsibility for extrajudicial killings, ... More >>
Black Sea Grain Exports Deal ‘A Beacon Of Hope’ Amid Ukraine War - Guterres
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 5:40 am | UN News
The UN plan, which also paves the way for Russian food and fertilizer to reach global markets, will help to stabilize spiralling food prices worldwide and stave off famine, affecting millions. Russian and Ukrainian Ministers signed the Black Sea Grain Initiative, ... More >>
UNHCR Alarmed By Growing Death Toll Among Displaced In Eastern DR Congo
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 5:37 am | UN News
As conflict grows in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the rising death toll and suffering of displaced civilians through brutal attacks, is cause for serious concern said the UN refugee agency UNHCR on Friday, which appealed for ... More >>
Monkeypox Declared A Global Health Emergency By The World Health Organization
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 5:23 am | UN News
Monkeypox is an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission about which we understand ‘too little’, and which meets the criteria of an emergency under International Health Regulations. “For all of these reasons, ... More >>
Voluntary Repatriation Of Refugees From Angola To DR Congo Resumes
Friday, 22 July 2022, 7:12 am | UN News
After a two-year hiatus, the voluntary repatriation of refugees from Angola to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has begun again, after the programme was put on hold in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic led to long-term border ... More >>
WHO Calls For Action To Provide Migrant And Refugee Healthcare
Friday, 22 July 2022, 7:11 am | UN News
Millions of refugees and migrants face poorer health outcomes than their host communities, which could jeopardize reaching the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for these populations. The warning from the World Health Organization ( WHO ... More >>
UN Envoy Calls For Extension And Expansion Of ‘Transformational’ Truce In Yemen
Friday, 22 July 2022, 7:09 am | UN News
The historic UN-brokered truce in Yemen has largely held for nearly four months, and Special Envoy Hans Grundberg on Thursday urged the Government and Houthi rebels to work towards renewing the “transformational” agreement, which expires on 2 ... More >>
Emergency Committee Meets Again As Monkeypox Cases Pass 14,000: WHO
Friday, 22 July 2022, 6:48 am | UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday reconvened the Monkeypox Emergency Committee to assess the public health implications of the evolving multi-country outbreak, as global cases passed 14,000, with six countries reporting their first ... More >>
Guterres Hails Healer And ‘Mentor To Generations’, Nelson Mandela
Monday, 18 July 2022, 5:59 am | UN News
The UN chief in his message to mark Monday's International Day in honour of Nelson Mandela, hailed the first Black President of post-Apartheid South Africa and racial justice icon, “a giant of our time”, who remains a “moral compass” for us ... More >>
New Administration In Colombia Provides ‘tremendous Opportunity’ To Further Peace
Saturday, 16 July 2022, 6:27 pm | UN News
The international community should lend full support to the incoming administration in Colombia, which has a tremendous opportunity to speed up implementation of the landmark 2016 Peace Agreement that ended more than 50 years of civil war, the top ... More >>
COVID-19 Fuels Slowest Rate Of Childhood Vaccination In Three Decades, Leaving Millions At Risk
Saturday, 16 July 2022, 6:26 pm | UN News
Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving shots. The figures released by the World Health Organization ... More >>
Nigeria: New UN Resilience Project Paves ‘pathway To Peace And Sustainable Development'
Friday, 15 July 2022, 5:20 pm | UN News
Over 500,000 conflict-affected people in northeast Nigeria will be tossed “a lifeline,” thanks to a new UN humanitarian and development package, launched on Thursday. The Resilience and Social Cohesion project, launched by the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ... More >>
Ukraine: Guterres Condemns Deadly Missile Attack On Vinnytsia; More Than 20 Killed
Friday, 15 July 2022, 5:19 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General is appalled by the deadly missile attack on Thursday against the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, that reportedly killed at least 22 people, far from the frontline of the main fighting in the east, including three children ... More >>
More Women Work In Health And Care But They Earn 24 Per Cent Less Than Men: UN Report
Friday, 15 July 2022, 6:32 am | UN News
Women working in the health and care sector earn nearly 25 per cent less than their male counterparts – a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors, two UN agencies said in a new report on Wednesday. The gender pay gap in the health and ... More >>
Animal-to-human Diseases On The Rise In Africa, Warns UN Health Agency
Friday, 15 July 2022, 6:31 am | UN News
Diseases transmitted from animals to people in Africa have jumped 63 per cent in last decade, compared with the previous ten year period, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) analysis released on Thursday. “And more than 75 per cent of ... More >>
Mystery Child Hepatitis Outbreak Passes 1,000 Recorded Cases, Says WHO
Thursday, 14 July 2022, 6:52 am | UN News
In addition to tackling COVID and the monkeypox outbreak, the UN health agency has also been keeping a close eye on the puzzling spread of hepatitis in previously healthy children, which has left dozens needing lifesaving liver transplants. According to ... More >>
Gang Violence In Port-au-Prince Threatens More Than A Million Food-insecure Haitians
Wednesday, 13 July 2022, 5:57 am | UN News
Surging and deadly gang violence in the Haitian capital has contributed to runaway food insecurity for well over one million people there, the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) said on Tuesday. In addition to being hit hard by the global food and fuel ... More >>
