UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has today appointed Catherine M. Russell, a close associate of President Joe Biden, director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said Stephen Duzaric, a spokesman for the United Nations. Russell will succeed her compatriot Enrietta For, who resigned in July. Kathryn M. Russell, 60, has been Biden’s adviser and director […]
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Around 2 million babies are born stillborn each year worldwide
Each year, nearly 2 million infants are born stillborn, or one infant every 16 seconds. “A terrible tragedy for a family, a tragedy too often lived in silence, and too frequent in the whole world”, deplores the UN in a report published on Thursday. This represents almost 1.4% of births in 2019, and more than 2% of […]
