Thursday’s Daily Brief: World Refugee Day, Middle East peace marred, Epilepsy report, Cities #WithRefugees initiative and Ebola-response funding gap in DR Congo
This Thursday, we cover: World Refugee Day, Peace in the [...]
First-ever WHO global report on epilepsy highlights care gap in poorer countries
More than seven in 10 people with epilepsy in developing [...]
9.7 billion on Earth by 2050, but growth rate slowing, says new UN population report
By the year 2050, there will be some 9.7 billion [...]
Friday’s Daily Brief : Sudan and South Sudan, Ebola, ECOSOC elections, risks of 5G tech
This Friday, we cover: Ebola in central Africa still not [...]
Yemen: maternal and newborn health ‘on the brink of total collapse’, UNICEF alerts
After more than four years of grinding conflict in Yemen, [...]
Sexual abuse of elderly likely to ‘grow dramatically’, UN expert says
As the world prepares to mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day this Saturday, the UN [...]
Second Ebola death confirmed in Uganda as UN health agency mulls global emergency call
Together with Uganda, UN humanitarian agencies are racing to contain [...]
Recognize, celebrate and ‘stand in solidarity’ with persons with albinism
International Albinism Awareness Day is a time to “recognize, celebrate [...]
Wednesday’s Daily Brief: mental health, conflict prevention, Ebola in Uganda, Sudan protests, child labour
This Wednesday’s top stories are: one-in-five conflict-affected people suffer from [...]
One-in-five suffers mental health condition in conflict zones, new UN figures reveal
More than one-in-five people living in conflict-affected areas suffers from [...]
UN health agency identifies 5-year-old Congolese boy as first confirmed case of Ebola in Uganda
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Ministry of Health, confirmed [...]
Thursday’s Daily Brief: STIs worldwide, food safety and food prices, updates on Iraq and East Africa
This Thursday, we cover: the latest global report by the [...]
‘From farm to plate’, first-ever World Food Safety Day demonstrates the need to take unsafe food off the menu
Unsafe food kills an estimated 420,000 people every year, the [...]
More than one million sexually transmitted infections occur every day: WHO
The global scale of sexually transmitted infections (STI) should be [...]
‘Catastrophic’ healthcare costs put mothers and newborns at risk
Pregnant women are putting their lives and their babies at [...]
UN expert criticizes States for ‘ganging up’ on Wikileaks’ Assange; warns against extradition, fearing ‘serious’ rights violations
After visiting Julian Assange in a London prison, an independent [...]
A major win for transgender rights: UN health agency drops ‘gender identity disorder’, as official diagnosis
“To reflect critical advances in science and medicine”, the World [...]
Don’t let smoking steal life’s breathtaking moments, urges UN health agency
Tobacco use continues to claim around eight million lives a [...]
Tuesday’s Daily Brief: violence surges in Nigeria, anti-Semitism on the march, taxing pollution to tackle climate crisis, and more
Tuesday’s main stories include: thousands fleeing into Niger as violence [...]
DR Congo: Strengthened effort against Ebola is paying off, but insecurity still major constraint – UN health agency
Although the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the [...]