UN News Daily Wrap: 2/8/2023

 

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Daily Wrap8 February 2023
A Food Bank agent collects food at a wholesale market in Lima (mercado de mayoristas), Peru.
Continued urgent action needed to prevent food and nutrition crisis from worsening

As millions worldwide continue to go hungry, leaders of five international humanitarian, banking and trade organizations on Wednesday appealed for further urgent action to prevent the global food and nutrition crisis from worsening. 

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Humanitarian Aid
Madagascar is one of 46 Least Developed Countries as designated by the United Nations.
UN ‘blueprint’ to protect least developed nations amid global slowdown

The Doha action plan adopted last year, offers a “blueprint” to lift the world’s least developed nations out of poverty amid the ongoing global financial downturn, the UN General Assembly President said on Wednesday.

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Economic Development
Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, briefs the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security.
Ukraine: Influx of weapons ‘must not derail aspiration for peace’, Security Council hears

Amid the influx of weapons pouring into Ukraine from abroad, all arms transfers must abide strictly by international transit, safeguard and control regimes, and “must not derail the aspiration for peace”, the senior UN disarmament official told the Security Council on Wednesday.

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Peace and Security
A mother donates her breastmilk at the first human milk bank to open in Nepal.
Slamming ‘big formula milk companies’, WHO scientist calls for swift clampdown to protect nursing mothers

Calling for a swift crackdown on infant formula corporations’ exploitative marketing tactics, a leading World Health Organization (WHO) scientist said, in a paper published on Wednesday, that nursing mothers need urgent support.

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Health
Children eating lunch at a primary school in Burundi.
Education: More investment in school health, nutrition, will realize childhood potential

Although investing in school health and nutrition has a positive effect on children’s academic outcomes, one-third of schools worldwide still do not have access to drinking water and basic sanitation facilities, three UN agencies said in a report published on Wednesday. 

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Culture and Education
A family from Eritrea sit outside their shelter at a refugee site in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia: UN refugee agency chief calls for more aid, new long-term strategy

UN refugee agency (UNHCR) chief on Wednesday called for long-term solutions to help those displaced by the recent conflict in Ethiopia.

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Migrants and Refugees
The search for survivors continues following the earthquake which affected Türkiye and Syria.
Earthquake disaster latest: fresh snow compounds Syrians’ misery

Fresh snowfall in Syria on Wednesday has compounded the already desperate situation faced by millions of people in the five governorates whose lives have been shattered by the earthquake disaster, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country said.

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Humanitarian Aid
A child is held by his mother as he feeds on a sachet of ready-to-use therapeutic food in Somalia.
Somalia: $2.6 billion appeal to support millions amid historic drought and famine fears

Humanitarians are seeking $2.6 billion to assist some 7.6 million people in Somalia this year, the UN and partners announced on Wednesday, together with the Federal and State authorities. 

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Humanitarian Aid
Destruction in Gaziantep, the day after the massive quake which has killed more than 8,000 people.
First Person: Türkiye earthquake – 60 seconds of terror

When Monday’s devastating earthquakes struck Türkiye and Syria, killing thousands of people, Olga Borzenkova, a spokesperson for the UN migration agency (IOM), was in Gaziantep, Türkiye, one of the most affected areas. She describes her experience, and the emergency response effort that is underway.

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