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UN News Today July 4

  • Gaza’s forcibly displaced run out of space to shelter
  • Myanmar’s military ‘doubling down’ on its attacks against civilians
  • And…UN chief António Guterres urges peace above all else, and an end to multiple conflicts
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4'3"

UN News Today July 3

  • Belarus is not safe for anyone critical of authorities, warns rights expert
  • In Ukraine, May was bloodiest month in a year, says UN mission
  • Syria still in grip of appalling violence, the Human Rights Council hears
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4'30"

UN News Today July 2

  • Gaza: 250,000 feared displaced in new Khan Younis escalation
  • Near-famine conditions only one of Sudan’s problems
  • In Haiti, a child a minute is uprooted by gang violence
  • And… a 5,000-metre mountain is named in honour of the UN
Audio Duration
5'3"

UN News Today July 1

  • Tens of thousands displaced in new Gaza City escalation
  • Afghanistan’s de facto authorities take part in international talks in Doha
  • And…why UN rights chief Volker Türk believes that the world of sports is not immune from the goal of human rights for all
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4'35"

UN News Today June 28

  • Over 10,000 patients still waiting to be evacuated from Gaza
  • UN Refugee Agency sounds alarm as climate change pounds displaced communities
  • UN sexual health agency launches new strategy to help end FGM and child marriage in East and Southern Africa 
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5'23"
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UN News Today June 27

  • Famine risk is real for 14 areas of Sudan amid ongoing fighting 
  • Andaman Sea among most deadly for migrants zones for migrants
  • Road safety experts wheel in fix for pedal error accidents 
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5'29"

UN News Today June 26

  • We'll never abandon Gaza, the UN’s top aid official tells me in an exclusive interview…
  • The International Criminal Court convicts a former police chief of war crimes in Mali
  • A new report this World Drug Day highlights rising drug use and increased trafficking
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4'12"
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News in Brief 25 June 2024

  • There’s a new famine alert for Gaza where families go days without food.
  • Top court the ICC, issues arrest warrants against senior Russian officials for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
  • And…Julian Assange’s release is welcomed by the Human Rights Council’s independent expert on torture.
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4'37"
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News in Brief 24 June 2024

  • The head of the biggest UN agency in Gaza warns that an entire generation could be lost;
  • In the latest outrage in Sudan, a maternity hospital comes under fire; 
  • And it’s time for the ‘war on drugs’ to end, the Human Rights Council hears
Audio Duration
4'18"
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News in Brief 21 June 2024

  • Gaza is more than two million stories of loss: UN agencies
  • Internal displacement set to surge as paths of climate change and conflict meet #HRC56
  • UNHCR rushes support to Rohingya refugees hit by deadly landslides in Bangladesh 
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4'58"