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Lauding Pandemic Response, Sixth Committee Speakers Urge Programme of Assistance to Have More Diverse Educational Materials, Resume In-Person Courses

October 22, 2021October 23, 2021User2

Delegates Conclude Debate on Protecting Persons in Event of Disasters, Take Up Universal Jurisdiction Scope, Application While commending the flexibility with which the Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law responded to the COVID‑19 pandemic, speakers in the Sixth Committee (Legal) urged the Programme to incorporate more diversity — including different […]

Ethiopia Launches Polio Vaccination Campaign

October 22, 2021October 23, 2021User2

Ethiopia has launched a nationwide polio vaccination campaign in the middle of the commemoration of World Polio Day today. In a joint statement WHO-UNICEF-ROTARY issued in connection with World Polio Day, they reaffirmed their commitment to continue delivering on the promise of a polio-free world for current and future generations. In 1988, the world committed […]

UNICEF Ethiopia Humanitarian Situation Report No. 8: September 2021

October 22, 2021October 23, 2021User2

Highlights Since January UNICEF reached almost 4 million people with safe water provision and treated over 330,000 children against malnutrition. A total of 2,105,387 IDPs have been found to be displaced across Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions so far, out of whom 44 per cent are children and 51 per cent are women. In September, […]

Legacies of Colonialism, Patriarchy, Neoliberalism Impede Access to Food, Water, Health Care for World’s Poor, Third Committee Hears as COVID 19 Exposes Gaps

October 21, 2021October 22, 2021User2

‘There Is Still Time to Correct Mistakes,’ Says Special Rapporteur on Right to Safe Drinking Water The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) continued its debate on human rights today, holding a series of dialogues with United Nations experts who called for a definitive break with exploitative systems that have left the world’s poorest without […]

Ethiopia – Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report #20 – October 20, 2021

October 21, 2021October 22, 2021User2

FAST FACTS In Ethiopia, International Medical Corps is operating 21 mobile health and nutrition teams (MHNTs), which have reached 678,130 internally displaced persons (IDPs) settled in more than 32 IDP sites in the Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions. In the past two weeks, International Medical Corps started providing emergency lifesaving health and nutrition services in […]

WHO announces plan for ‘profound transformation’ following sexual abuse allegations in DR Congo

October 21, 2021October 22, 2021User2

The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be “the catalyst for a profound transformation” of WHO’s culture. The assurance came this Thursday from WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while announcing a Management Response Plan to address the findings of an independent commission. “This plan outlines the changes we will make as an organisation […]