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Journalists at an event in Kabul to mark Afghan National Journalists Day in March 2019, in support of media freedom and solidarity with journalists in the country (file photo)..

‘Words must never be met with violence’ urges UN, following Taliban threat to journalists

27 June 2019

News Story

Kayenat, 12, feels happy to be sitting outside her school classroom as she smiles for the camera at the UNICEF-supported Zangora Community Based Education (CBE) cluster, Surkhrod District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (10 April 2019)

FROM THE FIELD: Children in warzones denied right to education

24 June 2019

Peace and Security

News Story

On 1 October 2018 at the Junaina makeshift camp in northern rural Idlib, in the Syrian Arab Republic, girls study in a tent school where a total of 350 children between the ages of 7 and 14 are able to go back to learning.

Teachers need more training to support traumatized refugee and migrant students, says UN on World Refugee Day

20 June 2019

Migrants and Refugees

News Story

Afghanistan Villagers discuss road construction in Gharaka, Daman district of the Kandahar Province.

Presidential election: ‘Key moment’ to reaffirm Afghanistan’s democratic political structure, UN mission chief tells Security Council

19 June 2019

Peace and Security

News Story

Venezuelans queue up to get an entry stamp in their passports at the Ecuador-Peru border. (13 June 2019)

Record displacement shows ‘we're almost unable to make peace’, warns UN refugee agency chief

19 June 2019

Migrants and Refugees

News Story

Hundreds of voters in line outside the Sayed Jamaludin Afghan polling center in Ayno Mena, Kandahar for the Afghanistan parliametary elections. 27 October 2018.

Civilians ‘must never be a target,’ says UN in Afghanistan, amid troubling number of casualties during Ramadan

10 June 2019

Peace and Security

News Story

A young child walks through the streets in Aleppo, Syria. (April 2019)

Friday’s Daily Brief: electronic hopes and fears, Security Council elections, updates from Libya, Syria, Australia and the Philippines

7 June 2019

Peace and Security

News Story

Detainees at a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, waiting for safe settlement supported by UNHCR. Here, a 19-year-old Eritrean girl talks to a UNOCHA staff member, while waiting her turn to get on the bus for transit to the UNHCR gathering center. She will then be flown to Niger to a safe settlement supported by UNHCR.

News in Brief 7 June 2019

7 June 2019

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A mother and her new born baby at the National Health Center for Mother and Child, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. (4 September 2015)

‘Catastrophic’ healthcare costs put mothers and newborns at risk

3 June 2019

News Story