The UN agencies in Afghanistan are already mobilized to help those affected by the devastating earthquake. The Russian journalist who won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dmitry Muratov, has decided to donate to UNICEF the 103.5 million dollars obtained by auctioning the medal Of the prize.Experts from nine countries in the Americas are training in Mexico to detect monkeypox. Indigenous women and girls suffer systematic and continuous acts of violence, while the perpetrators enjoy alarming levels of impunity.UN agencies in Afghanistan are already mobilized to help those affected by the devastating earthquake that could have left up to a thousand dead.The earthquake occurred at 01:30 in the morning, while people were sleeping.Hundreds of houses were destroyed by the 5.9-magnitude tremor.Four districts in Paktika province – Gayan, Barmala, Naka and Ziruk – as well as Spera district in Khost province, have been affected.The UN has already distributed more than ten tons of medical equipment and medicines and has deployed 80 medical teams with doctors, surgeons and specialists.“The mobile teams have reached all the locations in the mentioned districts.But at the UN we don't have the equipment to get people out from under the rubble, this depends on the de facto authorities, who also have limitations in this regard, and the rescue work continues," explained Ramiz Alakbarov, the resident coordinator of the UN from Kabul.The rain and the cold make it urgent to shelter people who have lost their homes.He also worries that there could be outbreaks of disease from drinking contaminated water.UNICEF is distributing kitchen supplies, hygiene items such as soap, detergent, towels, compresses and buckets of water;warm clothes, shoes and blankets;as well as tents and tarps.“We are counting on the international community to help the hundreds of families affected by this latest disaster.Now is the time for solidarity,” the UN Secretary-General said in a statement on the occasion of the tragedy.The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist, Dmitry Muratov, has decided to donate the $103.5 million obtained from the auction of the prize medal to UNICEF, to help Ukrainian refugee children.Muratov explained in an exclusive interview with UN News that the record sale showed that "sometimes humanity can come together and show solidarity."The editor-in-chief of Russia's independent Novaya Gazeta news service - which was shut down by the Kremlin in March following sweeping new restrictions on journalists after the invasion of Ukraine - said he and his colleagues chose UNICEF, as the best non-governmental organization to ensure that the funds reach all Ukrainian children in need.“UNICEF is not toxic at all, they have excellent professionals, they have programs, they report on how and what they do, this is what we need.We wrote them a letter and received a response from them.It was important for me that UNICEF pointed out that the money will go to all the countries that border Ukraine, where the refugees are, without exception," said Muratov, who said he hopes that the Ukrainian children who are now in Russia will also benefit.He can read the interview in Russian and English.Experts from nine countries in the Americas are being trained in Mexico in the detection and diagnosis of monkeypox.Scientists from Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador participate in the training workshop, organized by the Government of Mexico and the Pan American Health Organization.PAHO assures that it is necessary for the laboratories of the American countries to carry out molecular detection tests for the virus, since it is difficult to diagnose it based on clinical signs, due to the variety of conditions that cause skin rashes, since the disease in non-endemic countries is more atypical.The Organization recommends testing anyone who meets the definition of a suspected or probable case.As of June 17, 2022, 42 countries reported the presence of the virus.In America it has been detected in Argentina (3 cases), Brazil (5), Canada (159), the United States (72), Mexico (5) and Venezuela (1).Indigenous women and girls experience serious, systematic and ongoing acts of violence that permeate all aspects of their lives, while perpetrators enjoy alarming levels of impunity, a UN expert said."This violence is rooted in historical and unequal patriarchal power structures, racism, exclusion and marginalization that the legacy of colonialism allows," said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, in a report submitted to the Human Rights Council.The rapporteur assures that the level of impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators, both state and non-state, "is alarming" and that the magnitude and seriousness of the violence suffered by indigenous women and girls "are not adequately reflected in the compilation of data, legislation or public policies".