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Girl naming ceremonies are helping to reduce female foeticide and increase women’s rights in India. On the day the first day to launch 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, we find out how one project in Maharashtra, India, has been trying to reverse the negative perception of carrying and giving birth to a baby girl. IFAD

International donors pledged financial and political backing for Afghanistan’s peace process at the 2020 Afghanistan Conference in Geneva, anticipating a sustainable ceasefire that will help the country rebuild and heal after decades of conflict. UNTV CH

The United Nations (UN) has received an approval from Ansar Allah - the de facto authorities in Yemen’s capital Saana - for the expert mission to assess the damage to the stranded oil tanker, carry out necessary maintenance and make recommendations “on what further action is required to neutralize the risk of an oil spill,” the UN spokesperson said on Tuesday. UNIFEED

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis Plasschaert told the Security Council that “serious, resolute measures to address the ongoing financial and economic crisis cannot wait, not for a day. Government, parliament, political parties and others will have to step up to the plate collectively.” UNIFEED

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged all parties to the Ethiopian conflict to “spare and protect the civilian population from the effect of the hostilities,” her spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said. On the killing of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, an Afro-descendent beaten to death by two private security guards in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the spokesperson said it was “an extreme but sadly all too common example of the violence suffered by Black people in Brazil” UNTV CH

As the numbers of people fleeing Ethiopia’s Tigray region for eastern Sudan now exceed 40,000, The UN reufgee agency said it was working to get enough assistance to women, children and men in great need. UNHCR

Investments in emergency preparedness and health system strengthening have helped Rwanda confront COVID-19. WHO

The United Nations expressed alarm on Tuesday about the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where a communications blackout is making it hard to assess and cope with what is thought to be a growing humanitarian emergency. UNTV CH

"With the latest positive news from vaccine trials,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, “the light at the end of this long, dark tunnel is growing brighter.” WHO

United Nations is “extremely concerned about the safety of civilians in the Tigray region” of Ethiopia, the UN spokesperson said on Monday and called on "all parties to the conflict to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, protect civilians and civilian infrastructure including health facilities and water systems.” UNIFEED