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At the United Nations briefing in Geneva Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for the Office of the UN high Commissioner for Human Rights, briefed journalist on the troubling number of Human Rights defenders being killed in Colombia. UNTV CH

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said today that El Salvador’s new legislation to help people internally displaced by violence will help tens of thousands of people who have been displaced by gang violence and organized crime. UNTV CH

With the death toll from the world’s worst measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) surpassing 6,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for more funding to stop the outbreak. WHO

At least 300,000 civilians have fled their homes in northwest Syria amid intense air and ground bombardment, with winter conditions worsening an escalating humanitarian crisis, the United Nations said today. UNTV CH

Syrian ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told reporters that his government is “determined not to give up its right and duty as a sovereign state to eliminate the last strongholds of terrorism.” UNIFEED

At a free physiotherapy clinic financed and operated by UNHCR, Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis are receiving care side by side for ailments as varied as back pain and Parkinson’s disease. UNHCR

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that “many civilians have been reportedly been executed and many others abducted by armed groups” yesterday in northern Borno State and on the Damaturu-Biu road, linking Yobe and Borno states, in Nigeria. UNIFEED

Security Council rejects 2 draft resolutions authorizing cross-border and cross-line humanitarian access in Syria at 8697th meeting.

The UN Security Council failed to adopt two competing draft resolutions aimed at authorizing cross-border deliveries of humanitarian assistance in Syria. UNIFEED