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Daily Wrap 6 September 2024
Men work at an apartment building in Poltava, a city in central Ukraine,  that was damaged in an attack.
UNICEF renews school protection call in Ukraine amid 'deadly reality' of attacks

Continued Russian attacks across Ukraine this week made for a tragic start to the new school year, a senior official with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement on Friday. 

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Culture and Education
5th Global Climate and SDG Synergy Conference.
UN leads search for synergy on climate and development

Governments, experts and civil society representatives met in Brazil this week for a UN-backed conference to examine solutions that address the interlinked challenges of the climate emergency and the sustainable development crisis. 

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Climate and Environment
A mother carries her daughters through flood waters during July's monsoon season in Bangladesh.
Millions impacted by 'catastrophic and massive floods' in Bangladesh

Recent "catastrophic and massive floods" in Bangladesh have affected millions of people across the country, including those in Cox's Bazar where nearly one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar live alongside host communities, spokesperson William Spindler told journalists in Geneva on Friday. 

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Climate and Environment
A child suffering from mpox at the mpox isolation unit of the UNICEF-supported Kavumu Hospital in South Kivu province, DR Congo. (July 2024)
Mpox: Equitable vaccine access crucial for Global South

As African countries grapple with a deadly mpox outbreak, the UN independent expert on the right to health on Friday stressed that equitable access to vaccines is crucial in the race to save lives.

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Health
UNICEF staff prepare to administer polio vaccines at a health clinic in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza

More than 160,000 children were vaccinated in southern Gaza on Thursday, the first day of a polio vaccination campaign there, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Friday.

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Peace and Security
A young woman walks through  Kadugli town, South Kordofan state of Sudan, where sexual abuse is 'rampant', rights investigators said.
Sudan war: Rights probe demands wider arms embargo to end 'rampant' abuse

Top human rights investigators into Sudan's brutal war called on Friday for a country-wide arms embargo as they recounted harrowing testimony of victims of horrific sexual attacks whose bodies are treated as a "theatre of operation" by fighters acting with total impunity.

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Human Rights
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