Baghdad, 20 August 2020 – The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) strongly condemns the killing of two activists in Basra and the targeting of two others over the past week and urges increased government efforts to hold the perpetrators accountable and prevent the recurrence of attacks and intimidation against activists.
Baghdad, Iraq, 19 August 2020 – As the number of COVID-19 cases in Iraq continues to rise, WHO, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and its implementing partners, has just concluded another round of a COVID-19 awareness-raising campaign that intensified community outreach efforts to educate people on measures to limit transmission of the coronavirus.
(Baghdad, 19 August 2020) I am honored to mark World Humanitarian Day as one of my first acts as the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq. The commemoration has special significance here, as World Humanitarian Day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in memory of the attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad at the Canal Hotel on 19 August 2003. Many colleagues lost their lives that day, as they worked to support the Iraqi people in a time of crisis.
The funds, pledged under UNDP’s Funding Facility for Stabilization to help rehabilitate infrastructure damaged by ISIL, will be used to support UNDP Iraq’s initial $22 million COVID-19 response package, which is being implemented under the umbrella of UNDP’s stabilization programme.
On World Health Day, WHO will launch the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing Report 2020.
Baghdad - As Iraq and the world tackle the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19, this year’s World Health Day is like no other. Today, we pay tribute to all the health workers on the front lines. They provide treatment and care for affected patients, selflessly risking their lives to save ours.
Amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has already infected more than a million people worldwide, health professionals are unsung heroes working on the frontlines. Midwives risk their own lives to save those of pregnant women and newborns.
The exponential spread of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world and the global rise in the number of infections and associated deaths necessitates limiting all social events and mass gatherings, including religious pilgrimages to holy sites.
