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Feb 2025
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UN News Today 07 February 2025

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The DR Congo crisis must be stopped, or the emergency will only get worse, the UN human rights chief tells a special session of the Human Rights CouncilUNAIDS warns that US funding cuts are already impacting HIV prevention globallyChildren’s bodies have become battlegrounds in Haiti, warns UNICEF  
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