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The Lid is On
Floods in Bangladesh submerged more than 25% of the country in 2020.
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PODCAST: The link between migration, the climate crisis, and human rights

The Lid is On

It is becoming increasingly clear that the climate crisis is having a major impact on migration flows, with millions forced to move from their homes as a result of a disaster, or because they have been affected by slower-moving environmental changes that leave their homes uninhabitable, such as d

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Somaya Faruqi
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Digital ambition: How one Afghan student plans to get girls back to school

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Somaya Faruqi is one of the lucky ones. She managed to escape from Afghanistan in August 2021, just as the Taliban overran the country’s capital. Today, while the 20-year-old engineering student pursues a degree in the US, her former classmates back home have been banned from the classroom. In support of this week’s Education Cannot Wait conference in Geneva and its call for learning support in emergencies, Somaya has been speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
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IOM’s Johannes Fromholt helps to unload relief items in Kurakhove in central Ukraine.
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Some Ukraine towns practically erased, one year into invasion

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Nearly one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the scale of destruction in the south and east has been massive - so much so, that one senior UN humanitarian worker has told UN News some towns “don’t even exist anymore”. To help the vulnerable communities struggling to survive, the UN migration agency, IOM, has been stepping up aid and support. That includes towns like Znamyanka in central Ukraine, as IOM’s Johannes Fromholt has been telling Daniel Johnson.
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Samir Elhawary (left), UN disaster relief (UNDAC) team leader, speaks with residents of Aleppo, Syria.
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Syria quake disaster: Aleppo residents too scared to go home, warn UN rescue teams

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Aid teams on the ground in Syria are working round the clock to help those displaced by last week’s earthquake disaster, but the needs remain massive, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. In Aleppo, where families have found shelter in schools, mosques and churches, the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination team (UNDAC) expressed concern that conditions are cramped and unsuitable. With more, here’s UNDAC Syria chief Samir Elhawary, speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
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