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Brutality against children 'cannot be the new normal' stresses UNICEF

28 December 2017
... have become “standard tactics,” in conflicts from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, to Nigeria, South Sudan and Myanmar, said the UN agency. ...
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Donors make initial pledges of $857 million to fund UN refugee agency’s work in 2018

5 December 2017
... biggest emergencies around the world such as those in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Afghanistan ...
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Antalya: South-South cooperation can spur great humanitarian, development impact – UN relief official

29 November 2017
... hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled from Syria. “In Gaziantep, I will have opportunity to see close to the Syrian ... people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria. We as humanitarians have to keep every possibility open for access to Syrians inside Syria. And we are grateful for the support by the Turkish Government to enable ... assistance. Turkey now hosts 3.2 million refugees from Syria. Ms. Mueller met Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu in ...
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‘Don’t let adults off the hook, keep raising your voices;’ Kids ‘take over’ UN for World Children’s Day

20 November 2017
... Moner took over the podium, they introduced two youth from Syria, with many high-fives in the mix. After fleeing Syria, 12-year-old Basel’s family sheltered in Jordan where his father worked ... saying “If I become an eye doctor, I can travel back to Syria and other places to help people around the world.” ...
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'Unity, solidarity and collaboration' can turn tide on terrorism, bolster human rights, says UN chief

16 November 2017
... by terrorism were in just five states: Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria and Somalia. The global economic impact of terrorism is ... for them. Terrorists are losing physical ground in Syria and Iraq, but gaining virtual ground in cyberspace. Facebook, Microsoft, ...
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'Failure to broker peace' hinders solutions to displacement, UN refugee chief tells Security Council

2 November 2017
... Mr. Grandi cited several ongoing crises, including in Syria and Iraq, which together accounted for a quarter of all those forcibly ...
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UN Security Council urges more protections for children in conflicts

31 October 2017
... of verified cases of recruitment and use of children in Syria and Somalia, and widespread sexual violence against children in the ...
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Famine can be a war crime and should be prosecuted, says independent UN rights expert

23 October 2017
... Those countries include Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, where around 20 million people are hungry or face starvation ...
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'EmPOWER' girls before, during and after crises, UN says on International Day of the Girl Child

11 October 2017
... and natural disaster. The girls pictured here are in Syria’s Tariq Al-Bab neighbourhood, where UN agencies are distributing relief ...
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UN report reveals shocking levels of grave violations against children affected by conflicts

5 October 2017
... Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, suffered an unacceptable level of violations by parties to ... double the number in 2015) of children recruited and used in Syria, and 1,915 in Somalia in 2016. It also notes that in Yemen, at least 1,340 children were killed or maimed. In Syria that number stood at 1,299. UN chief ‘appalled’ at scale of ...
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