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UN agency raises alarm over rising food and fuel prices in Myanmar

16 March 2021
Peace and Security
UNICEF/Kaung Htet

Rising food and fuel prices present a looming threat to the poorest and most vulnerable communities in Myanmar, as supply chains and markets are starting to feel the impact of the ongoing political crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. 

Syria’s decade of conflict takes massive toll on women and girls

COVID-19: WHO and European Medicines Agency to meet on AstraZeneca vaccine

Myanmar crisis: UN chief 'appalled' by escalating violence with dozens reported killed over weekend

COVID-19 has exposed endemic gender inequality, Guterres tells UN Women’s commission

Independent UN expert says ‘tsunami of hate’ targeting minorities must be tackled

UNICEF/Ali Haj Suleiman

Syria: Grim 10-year anniversary of ‘unimaginable violence and indignities’ 

Peace and Security

As the Syrian war reaches its grim decade-long milestone, the UN envoy for the country told the Security Council on Monday that it will “go down as one of the darkest chapters in recent history” referring to the Syrian people as among “the greatest victims of this century”. 

© UNHCR/Vivian Tou’meh

FROM THE FIELD: Syrian photographers find hope despite 10 years of civil war

Humanitarian Aid

The pain and deprivation of individual Syrians and the widespread destruction, a decade of conflict has wrought on Syria, has been documented in a series of images taken by 16 photographers working in the country.

UN Photo/Isaac Billy

Allies of South Sudan militias must be held accountable: UN human rights report

Human Rights

Military and political officials in South Sudan supporting community-based militias in the Greater Jonglei region, must be held accountable for violence that killed more than 700 people over a six-month period last year, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Monday. 

UNDP Sudan/Ala Eldin Abdalla Mohamed

FROM THE FIELD: Solar power lights up Sudanese refugee camp

Humanitarian Aid

In eastern Sudan, renewable energy is being trialled as a power source in UN-run refugee camps, where an influx of thousands of people fleeing conflict in Ethiopia is putting a strain on local resources, and host communities.

UN Bolivia/Hasan Lopez

‘Guarantee due process’, says UN chief, following Bolivia opposition arrests

Human Rights

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has recalled the importance of upholding due process in all legal proceedings, a day after the arrest of the former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, and several former ministers.

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