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Ukraine: Urgent agreement needed to end fighting around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
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Ukraine: Urgent agreement needed to end fighting around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Agreement is urgently needed to reestablish the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine as purely civilian infrastructure and prevent a potentially “catastrophic” disaster amid the ongoing conflict, UN political…

24 August 2022 · 5 min read

UN chief pays second call on Ukraine, will visit grain-exporting Black Sea Port
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UN chief pays second call on Ukraine, will visit grain-exporting Black Sea Port

Secretary-General António Guterres arrived on Wednesday to Lviv, the largest city in Western Ukraine.

17 August 2022 · 2 min read

WFP: First Ukrainian humanitarian grain shipment leaves for Horn of Africa
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WFP: First Ukrainian humanitarian grain shipment leaves for Horn of Africa

The first vessel transporting Ukrainian wheat grain to support humanitarian operations run by the World Food Programme (WFP) has left the port of Yuzhny, also known as Pivdennyi, the UN…

16 August 2022 · 3 min read

Children with disabilities disproportionately impacted by war in Ukraine 
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Children with disabilities disproportionately impacted by war in Ukraine 

The current humanitarian crisis stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having “a disproportionate impact” on persons with disabilities, especially children with disabilities in institutions

13 August 2022 · 3 min read

Dozens missing after migrant boat sinks in Aegean Sea – UNHCR
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Dozens missing after migrant boat sinks in Aegean Sea – UNHCR

Dozens of people are said to be missing after a boat of migrants and refugees sank in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday off the Greek island of Karpathos, according to…

11 August 2022 · 3 min read

Belarus: Rights experts denounce withdrawal from key environmental agreement
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Belarus: Rights experts denounce withdrawal from key environmental agreement

UN experts on Wednesday denounced the decision by Belarus to withdraw from an international agreement that upholds people’s right to access information, as well as justice, in environmental matters. 

10 August 2022 · 3 min read

Ukraine: Prospects for end to war look bleak, despite ‘encouraging’ grain deal
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Ukraine: Prospects for end to war look bleak, despite ‘encouraging’ grain deal

The war in Ukraine shows no signs of ending, more than five months after the Russian invasion, and fighting is intensifying, the UN Security Council heard on Friday. 

30 July 2022 · 4 min read

Top rights expert questions ‘double standard’ on Ukraine’s war displaced
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Top rights expert questions ‘double standard’ on Ukraine’s war displaced

A top UN-appointed human rights expert on Thursday raised the issue of an alleged “double standard” in Poland and Belarus towards those forced to flee the war in Ukraine.

29 July 2022 · 3 min read

Ukraine: UNICEF delivers life-saving supplies for over 50,000 children in Odesa
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Ukraine: UNICEF delivers life-saving supplies for over 50,000 children in Odesa

The UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, delivered supplies on Tuesday to help an estimated 50,000 children in the war-ravaged districts of Odesa, the crucial Black Sea port which Russia bombed on Saturday, just…

27 July 2022 · 3 min read

WMO warns of frequent heatwaves in decades ahead
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Europe

WMO warns of frequent heatwaves in decades ahead

Extreme heat in western Europe is causing devastating wildfires in France and Spain, unprecedented drought in Italy and Portugal, and the United Kingdom recorded its highest-ever temperature of just over…

21 July 2022 · 3 min read