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Opium poppy cultivation in the Golden Triangle stabilized in 2015 at high levels.
UNODC

Myanmar peace process and heroin production interlinked: UNODC

6 December 2017
Interviews

Helping regions in Myanmar which are wracked by conflict move away from opium production is good for the economy and will help solidify the country’s peace process.

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UNICEF/Amaya

Violence against children pervasive in homes, schools and communities – UNICEF

1 November 2017
About 300 million, or three-quarters, of the world’s two- to four-year-old children experience either psychological aggression or physical punishment, or both, by their caregivers at home, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report published Tuesday.
Women and children displaced by fighting in northern Iraq.
IOM

News in Brief 26 October 2017 (PM)

26 October 2017
News in Brief

50,000 Iraqi civilians affected by fresh offensive against ISIL in Iraq: OCHA

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MINUSCA Peacekeepers escorting supply trucks transporting goods from the border with Cameroon, through the Bangui-Douala corridor, Central African Republic.
UN Photo/Herve Serefio

News in Brief 20 October 2017 (PM)

20 October 2017
News in Brief

Peacekeepers wounded in Central African Republic 

Two UN peacekeepers were wounded following clashes with so-called anti-Balaka fighters who attacked a town in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Thursday.

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Secretary General António Guterres speaks to the media about his upcoming trip to Central African Republic.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

News in Brief 18 October 2017 (PM)

18 October 2017
News in Brief

UN chief heads for CAR “to strengthen international support for peace”

Against a backdrop of growing violence and communal tension, the UN chief announced on Wednesday that he’s heading to the Central African Republic “to strengthen international support for peace”.

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Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre

News in Brief 16 October 2017 (PM)

16 October 2017
News in Brief

Take “coordinated steps” to prevent violence over Kirkuk, urges UN chief

The Iraqi government and Kurdish authorities need to take “coordinated steps” to prevent violence across the governorate of Kirkuk, said the UN chief António Guterres on Monday.

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Ramya Subrahmanian at UN Headquarters on 02 October. Source: UN Web TV

Scalable solutions critical to reducing violence against children

9 October 2017
General News

Ramya Subrahmanian attended the high-level event on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for Children: Collective Actions and I

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Sake, North Kivu Province, DR Congo: MONUSCO Special Forces conducting a training in fast-roping for future aircraft operations.
UN Photo/ MONUSCO

News in Brief 09 October 2017 (PM)

9 October 2017
News in Brief

Deadly attack on blue helmet base in eastern DRC

Two peacekeepers have reportedly been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations said on Monday.

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Signing Ceremony for the “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, 20 September. Secretary-General António Guterres (centre right). Beatrice Fihn (first from right), Executive Director, ICAN.
UN Photo/Kim Haughton

News in Brief 06 October 2017 (PM)

6 October 2017
News in Brief

Nobel prize for group opposing nuclear weapons, praised by UN chief

The announcement on Friday that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to an international group campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons reminds the world of the “catastrophic risk” they pose.

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Rohingya refugees from Myanmar walk through paddy fields and flooded land after they fled over the border to Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims have found refuge.
UNICEF/UN0119956/Brown (file)

News in Brief 03 October 2017 (PM)

3 October 2017
News in Brief

Scale-up aid to Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh: UN officials

Two senior UN officials are calling for scaled-up assistance to support thousands of people who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over the past six weeks.

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