UN News Daily Wrap 1/16/2023

 

Hans Grundberg (on screen), Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, briefs the Security Council meeting on Yemen.
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Daily Wrap16 January 2023
A young girl studies at home in Gujarat, India.
Poorest learners benefit the least from public education: UNICEF

Governments are not investing enough in those children who need education the most, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report published on Tuesday, calling for equitable financing to combat “learning poverty”. 

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Culture and Education
Hans Grundberg (on screen), Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, briefs the Security Council meeting on Yemen.
Yemen: Lull in major fighting provides space for dialogue

Warring parties in Yemen should take advantage of the current absence of major fighting and use it to advance their talks towards peace, the top UN official in the country said on Monday in his latest briefing to the Security Council. 

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Peace and Security
Destroyed Residential Building in Dnipro, Ukraine (file photo).
Ukraine: Civilian attacks ‘must end immediately’ says UN, as search for Dnipro survivors continues

The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned Russia’s attack on a large residential building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro at the weekend that has left at least 40 civilians dead, including three children, and at least 75 injured, with those figures likely to rise, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country.

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Peace and Security
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Pakistan: rights experts urge action on coerced religious conversions, child marriage

Top independent human rights experts expressed alarm on Monday at a rise in abductions of girls as young as 13 in Pakistan, who are forced to marry and convert to Islam.

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Women
Displaced children wash their hands outside a public toilet at a camp in Sindh Province, Pakistan.
High Commissioner reports sharp decline in respect for children’s rights

Children’s rights must remain a priority and their voices should be heard and listened to, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Monday in Geneva. 

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Human Rights
A street vendor sells eggs in Diego-Suarez in Madagascar.
Economic slowdown may force workers into ‘lower quality’ jobs

Finding a decent and well-paid job is likely to be harder this year, thanks to the continuing global economic downturn, the UN labour agency said on Monday.

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Economic Development
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