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A World Health Organization committee has reviewed the evidence for four Marburg vaccines. WHO

La vocera del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Marta Hurtado, dijo que el estado de excepción en El Salvador, en vigor desde hace un año, ha permitido a las autoridades adoptar varias medidas que suscitan grave preocupación en materia de derechos humanos. ACNUDH

Refugees and host communities benefit from a water project in Gambella, Ethiopia. The project supplies clean piped water to over 220,000 people in the community, most of whom are refugees and aims to strengthen cohesion between refugees and their hosts. UNHCR

Briefing reporters today on Haiti’s current food security crisis, World Food Programme's Country Director, Jean-Martin Bauer, wondered “how bad things need to get in order for actions to happen?” UNIFEED

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, told journalists in New York there is a cholera outbreak in the North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). UNIFEED

New agenda sets sail with bold action as UN Water Conference closes. UNIFEED

Dr. Osama El-Lissy of the Food and Agriculture (FAO) said “plant pests currently destroy up to 40 percent of agriculture and crops,” including 80 percent of the global banana production, which “is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium.” UNTV CH

On the occasion on World TB Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is announcing the expanded scope of the WHO Director-General’s (DG) Flagship Initiative on tuberculosis over the period from 2023 to 2027 to support fast-tracking progress towards ending TB and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. WHO

“At Starbucks, we are committed to conserve and replenish water across our business by 50 percent by 2030,” Starbucks Sustainability chief told the UN 2023 Water Conference plenary meeting. UNIFEED

The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund called on all nations to accelerate action to make water, sanitation and hygiene - or what is known as WASH - a reality for all. UNIFEED / FILE