UN News Daily Wrap 2/9/2023

 

A family walks past a memorial set up at  the location of a suicide bombing, claimed by ISIL, at Al-Shuhadaa Staduim in Babil, Iraq.
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Daily Wrap9 February 2023
The World Food Programme has been distributing hot meals to displaced people in Aleppo, Syria.
Earthquake disaster: ‘We must put people first’ urges Guterres in race to save lives

Now is the time to stand up for the people of Türkiye and Syria living in the region of the deadly earthquake disaster, said the UN chief on Thursday, and show them “the same kind of support and generosity” which they have displayed in recent years, aiding millions of refugees and displaced people fleeing conflict.

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Humanitarian Aid
A family walks past a memorial set up at  the location of a suicide bombing, claimed by ISIL, at Al-Shuhadaa Staduim in Babil, Iraq.
ISIL terror threat still high and increasing in conflict zones, Security Council hears

Despite leadership losses and diminished cash reserves, the extremist group ISIL, or Da'esh, continues to pose a threat to international peace and security, the UN counter-terrorism chief warned on Thursday in New York. 

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Peace and Security
School closures in Haiti rise amid targeted violence.
Haiti: UNICEF reports nine-fold increase in violence targeting schools

Acts of armed violence targeting schools in Haiti have spiked nine-fold in one year amid rising insecurity and widespread unrest, UNICEF warned on Thursday.

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Peace and Security
A health worker in Suriname prepares to administer a rapid COVID-19 test.
UN General Assembly hears call for worldwide pandemic warning system

Epidemiologists and researchers briefing the UN General Assembly in the first of its kind science session earlier this week, called for pathogen surveillance and an open-source global early warning system that would include data from a wide range of sources and streams.

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Health
Daina Denja takes the cholera vaccine during UNICEF' cholera vaccine campaign at Misili village in Chikwawa district, Malawi.
WHO reports exponential rise in cholera cases in Africa

Africa is currently experiencing an exponential rise in cholera cases, amid a global surge in the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. 

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Health
Migrants from the Mediterranean are rescued in the Channel of Sicily, Italy (file).
Rights expert urges Italy to stop criminalizing activists saving migrant lives at sea

Activists working with sea-rescue charities in Italy should not be criminalized, a UN independent human rights expert said on Thursday, ahead of a trial against crew members from several non-governmental organizations (NGOs). 

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Human Rights
WFP rushes vital food assistance to families in Syria affected by the devastating earthquake.
First UN aid convoy reaches Syria’s quake-hit northwest since disaster

As a UN aid convoy reached Syria on Thursday for the first time since devastating earthquakes cut off supply lines from Türkiye three days ago, UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, called for assurances that desperately needed assistance inside Syria would not be held up or “politicized”.

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