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News in Brief 26 July 2021

26 July 2021
News in Brief
  • Rome UN Food Summit action call
  • Nearly 200 nations start climate science negotiations online
  • More women and children killed and wounded in Afghan conflict than ever
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A record number of children and women have been killed or wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021.
UNAMA/Dilawar Khan Dilawar

Afghanistan: Record number of women and children killed or wounded

26 July 2021
Peace and Security

More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since records began in 2009, a United Nations report revealed on Monday.

Many schools in Afghanistan have suffered the effects of long-term conflict.
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Afghanistan: Civilian casualties down, but hundreds still killed, despite US-Taliban deal

27 April 2020
Peace and Security

In the first quarter of 2020, the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan fell by nearly a third from the same period a year earlier, representing the lowest first quarter figure since 2012, according to a UN report released on Monday.

An estimated 26,000 children aged 3-17 in Al Hol camp of Syria's Hasakeh governorate have been out of schools for years due to conflict and displacement and are in need of education services.
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UN human rights chief fears world has grown numb to Syrian carnage

26 July 2019
Peace and Security

The relentless campaign of airstrikes in Syria has been met with a “collective shrug,” the top United Nations human rights official said on Friday, denouncing the world’s apparent indifference to the mounting civilian casualties as a “failure of leadership” by the world’s most powerful countries.