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PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE 14 April 2023 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the World Meteorological Organization. Looming ration cuts for refugees in Chad Pierre Honnorat, World Food Programme (WFP)…

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Welcome Restoration of “A” Status for Niger’s National Human Rights Commission, Ask Questions onDescent-Based Slavery and Child Statelessness

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Welcome Restoration of “A” Status for Niger’s National Human Rights Commission, Ask Questions onDescent-Based Slavery and Child Statelessness 14 April 2023 Meeting Summaries   The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-second to twenty-fifth periodic report of Niger, with…

World Chagas Day calls for primary health care to track ‘silent’ disease

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home World Chagas Day calls for primary health care to track ‘silent’ disease 14 April 2023 © CDC/James Gathany The “kissing bug”, so named because it bites the lips of sleeping humans, can transfer Chagas disease. Early screening can make Chagas a disease of the past, said UNITAID, a global agency hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the occasion of World Chagas Disease Day,…

Haiti: $720 million plan to support millions facing gangs, hunger and cholera

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: $720 million plan to support millions facing gangs, hunger and cholera 14 April 2023 © UNICEF/Odlyn Joseph A woman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, carries water she has bought from a local trader. The UN and partners are appealing for $720 million to support more than three million people in Haiti, where gangs, hunger, and cholera have plunged nearly half the population into humanitarian…

Yemen: UN envoy welcomes mass prisoner release, urges push for political solution to war

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Yemen: UN envoy welcomes mass prisoner release, urges push for political solution to war 14 April 2023 © WFP/Mohammed Awadh The Al Gahmalyya neighbourhood in Taiz City, Yemen, has been severely damaged as a result of years of conflict. As a major exchange of prisoners linked to Yemen’s longstanding war began on Friday, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg urged the warring sides to continue their…

Chad: Aid for displaced desperately needed to avoid hunger

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Chad: Aid for displaced desperately needed to avoid hunger 14 April 2023 © UNICEF/Riccardo Gangale Women bring their children to a community malnutrition screening in Nokou, Chad. A dire lack of humanitarian funding has left hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in Chad facing hunger in the coming months, UN agencies said on Friday…

‘It can happen anywhere’: General Assembly reflects on Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home ‘It can happen anywhere’: General Assembly reflects on Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda 14 April 2023 UN Photo/Loey Felipe Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) and other participants light candles at the UN General Assembly event commemorating the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Hate speech is an alarm bell – the louder it rings,…

Conflict in NE Nigeria still affects children 9 years after Chibok girls ‘nightmare’: UNICEF

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Conflict in NE Nigeria still affects children 9 years after Chibok girls ‘nightmare’: UNICEF 14 April 2023 © UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson The jihadist group responsible for kidnapping school girls in Chibok, Boko Haram, has attacked communities in and around Maiduguri (pictured). Nearly a decade after Boko Haram militants abducted 276 schoolgirls from their dormitory in Chibok, northeast Nigeria…

Religious leaders join UN in praying for peace – ‘our most precious goal’

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home Religious leaders join UN in praying for peace – ‘our most precious goal’ 14 April 2023 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Secretary-General António Guterres addresses attendees to the Interfaith Moment of Prayer for Peace at UN Headquarters. At a time of terrible divisions in the world, leaders from multiple faiths joined together at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday to observe a moment of…

New UNESCO report reveals $97 billion barrier to reaching education targets

2 years ago Breadcrumb Home New UNESCO report reveals $97 billion barrier to reaching education targets 14 April 2023 © UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene On 19 September 2022 in Goro, Ethiopia, a classroom full of children at Goro Pre-Primary and Elementary School. Children all around the country are returning to class, they are excited to meet their friends after a long period apart. Without $97 billion in extra funding, a range…