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• Haiti cholera outbreak ‘stopped in its tracks’

  2020-01-24

  After a nine-year long cholera outbreak in Haiti that killed close to 10,000 people, this week the country reached the milestone of an entire year free from any new cases of the deadly waterborne disease.

• The drive for quality education worldwide, faces ‘mammoth challenges’

  2020-01-24

  Aligning inclusive, quality education with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was centre-stage on Friday, as the President of the UN General Assembly held a high-level interactive meeting for the International Day of Education.       

• FROM THE FIELD: Niger supporting the most vulnerable, as crises mount  

  2020-01-24

  The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance in Niger, a country which the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, says is “being assaulted on all fronts”, is expected to increase in 2020. 

• Health services for Syrian women caught up in war, foster safety and hope: UNFPA

  2020-01-23

  Continued displacement from conflict-affected areas in northeast Syria leaves women and girls in urgent need of safe spaces, shelter and reproductive health services, according to a Flash Update this week from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

• Myanmar: Departing UN rights expert still hopeful for democratic transition

  2020-01-23

  An independent human rights expert said she has not given up hope for a democratic transition in Myanmar even though the country has yet to address “grave allegations” of international crimes, including possible genocide.   

• Coronavirus: ‘An emergency in China, but not yet a global health emergency’

  2020-01-23

  The head of the UN health agency, WHO (World Health Organization), declared on Thursday that the respiratory disease Novel Coronavirus, is not yet an official Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), but warned that is an emergency in China.

• At Davos, UN chief urges ‘big emitters’ to take climate action

  2020-01-23

  The world is “doomed” in the face of climate change unless major industrial nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday. 

• 75 years after Auschwitz liberation, antisemitism still threatens ‘foundations of democratic societies’

  2020-01-23

  Commemorating 75 years since the liberation of the notorious Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, independent UN rights experts said on Thursday that “urgent action” is needed to combat mounting antisemitism.

• Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from genocide

  2020-01-23

  Myanmar must take steps to protect its minority Rohingya population, the top UN court unanimously ruled on Thursday. 

• UN health emergency committee to re-convene on global threat posed by China coronavirus

  2020-01-22

  Experts convened in Geneva by the World Health Organization (WHO) will meet again on Thursday to determine whether novel coronavirus is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). 

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