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18.03.2023 News Headlines

33 million kids vaccinated against polio in Southern Africa … Spread This News VOA … More than 33 million children in several southern African countries have been vaccinated against polio, part of ongoing efforts to eradicate the infectious…

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18.03.2023 UN - communique

On the eve of International Women’s Day, we are releasing a new report – Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women, which sheds light on the status, trends, and inequities in the nutritional status of…

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14.01.2023 All Africa News

Rebels, Victims, Peacebuilders: Women in Cameroon’s Anglophone Conflict … Years of fighting between separatists and the state in Cameroon have hit women hard, uprooting hundreds of thousands. The government and external partners should step up aid…

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11.01.2023 UN Communique

According to the latest child mortality report  from the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), an estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged…

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08.01.2023 The Globe and Mail: Macarena Sáez

Abortion rights activists celebrate in front of Colombia’s Constitutional Court in Bogota, Colombia, February 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Fernando Vergara … This essay is part of a series highlighting global human rights trends in 2022. Read…

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02.01.2023 UK Correspondent

  … Spread This News … ZIMBABWE-BORN academic Professor Juliet Thondhlana has been appointed to a top role at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The University of Nottingham (UoN) academic was named UNESCO…