07/02/2019
Although more children than ever before are being vaccinated against measles across Europe, overall infection rates are the highest in a decade, and a three-fold increase on last year, according to new data published on Thursday [7 February 2019] by the World Health Organization (WHO).
UNICEF/Heather Papowitz | A girl being vaccinated against measles. Photo: UNICEF/Heather Papowitz
In 2018, measles killed 72 children and adults in the European Region, which consists of 53 countries, including Azerbaijan, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Close to 82,600 people in 47 of those 53 countries contracted the virus, representing the highest number of annual cases in the past decade: three times the total reported in 2017, and 15 times the record low, reported in 2016.
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07/02/2019
The food we eat has huge potential to improve both human health and environmental sustainability, but too often today it is posing a threat to both people and planet, according to a new report by the EAT-Lancet Commission, launched on Tuesday [6 February 2019] at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
World Bank/Scott Wallace | A vendor sells produce at his stall in Bangladesh. | Photo from UN News.
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07/02/2019
UNICEF/Adrak | Khair (left) is the father of seven children, who is no longer able to feed them. The drought has destroyed his land in Daykundi Province, Afghanistan; and this year he harvested nothing. (June 2018)
His reaction on Wednesday came after WMO issued a report confirming that 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 were the four warmest years recorded to date.
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07/02/2019
More than six in 10 children globally lack access to social protection, leaving them particularly vulnerable to falling into chronic poverty, the UN said on Wednesday [6 February 2019], warning also that some governments are cutting State cash entitlements, amid continuing economic uncertainty.
Photo: UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie | A joint ILO-UNICEF report is urging action to ensure that social protection reaches all children, like 6-year-old Mustafa who works with his father in an industrial area of Baghdad, and protects them from poverty and deprivation.
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07/02/2019
The number of casualties in Afghanistan from landmines and other explosives has more than tripled since 2012, the UN said on Wednesday [6 February 2019], in support of a call to provide more long-term support for survivors.
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UNMAS/Cengiz Yar | An explosives specialist conducts mine clearance operations after detecting a piece of metal in the mountains near Kabul, Afghanistan.
Latest data from
UNMAS, the UN Mine Action Service, shows that 1,415 Afghan civilians were killed or injured by mines and so-called explosive remnants of war (ERW) in 2018.
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