Overview As of the end of August 2022, Southern Africa hosts around 8.6 million persons of concern (PoCs) to UNHCR. This includes 1.1 million refugees and asylum-seekers and 6.9 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as others of concern, refugee returnees and IDP returnees. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) represents 77 per cent […]
Day: October 18, 2022
Staggering backsliding across women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health revealed in new UN analysis [EN/AR]
A new UN report shows that women’s and children’s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women. Data presented in the report show a critical regression across virtually every major measure of childhood wellbeing, and many […]
World Food Day 2022: Call to leave no one behind comes at critical juncture for global food security [EN/AR/IT/RU/ZH]
Rome – World Food Day 2022 celebrations were held in Rome today under the rallying cry “leave no one behind,” amid a deteriorating global food security crisis and all-time high numbers of people at risk of experiencing serious levels of hunger in Asia and Africa. The annual event commemorates the founding in 1945 of the […]
Global health: Women and children pay heaviest price for ‘gaping inequities’
A new UN report shows that women’s and children’s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge, with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women. Data presented in the report show a clear and critical regression across virtually every major measure of childhood wellbeing, […]