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WHO chief: World treats crises differently depending on race

World Health Organization chief Tedros speaks at a 2021 news conference in Geneva, Switzerland [File: Denis Balibouse/Reuters]

The world is treating humanitarian crises affecting Black and white lives unequally, with only a “fraction” of the attention on Ukraine given elsewhere, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Humanitarian crises are not being given equal consideration, possibly because those suffering are not white, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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