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In a statement issued today, UNICEF hails Bhutan’s successful completion of full COVID-19 vaccinations for 90 per cent of the eligible population. UNICEF

On World Hepatitis Day, global health agency Unitaid celebrates progress made against hepatitis C and looks towards 2030 elimination targets. UNITAID / FILE

According to official data published today by WHO and UNICEF, 23 million children missed out on basic vaccines through routine immunization services in 2020 - 3.7 million more than in 2019. UNICEF

Briefing reporters in Geneva, a UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) official said, “We can, and should, make the internet a safer place, but it doesn’t need to be at the expense of fundamental rights.” UNTV CH

The World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, said there is a tendency for “mixing and matching” vaccine doses and warned that “it will be chaotic in countries if citizens start deciding when and who should be taking a second, third or a fourth dose." WHO

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Monday said it was “deeply saddened and disturbed” by the death of 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy, a human rights defender and Jesuit priest, in Mumbai. On the situation in Eswatini, the OHCHR spokesperson said the eruption of violence in the African Kingdom in recent days is “deeply concerning, amid reports that dozens of people have been killed or injured during protests calling for democratic reforms.” UNTV CH

“An exceptional and dangerous heatwave is breaking in northwestern United States of America and western Canada,” where the all-time Canadian temperature record was broken twice within 24 hours, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on Tuesday. UNTV CH

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which calls on the Myanmar armed forces to immediately stop all violence against peaceful demonstrators and civilians and calls on countries to prevent the flow of arms into the country. UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener urged the Security Council to “speak in unity” as half the population is expected to live under the poverty line by next year in the situation continues. UNIFEED

A five-day joint military exercise between UNIFIL peacekeepers and Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) using live ammunition concluded on Friday in an open field south of UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura. The “Steel Storm” drill, led by UNIFIL’s Force Commander’s Reserve (FCR) and conducted between the two forces twice a year, involved armored assets, machine gun and small arms live fire. UNIFIL