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Category: International
Critical gaps in refugee education, only 34 per cent at...
Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, as it called ...
Blue sky thinking: 5 things to know about air pollution
Around 90 per cent of people go through their daily lives breathing harmful polluted air, which has been described by the United N...
Yemen: UN agency helping stranded migrants to return ho...
Amid intensifying conflict in Yemen, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping near...
Tigray aid situation worsening by the day, warn UN huma...
The aid crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region is worsening, the UN said on Thursday, with stocks of relief aid, cash and fuel “runnin...
UNHCR warns of unprecedented displacement in Central Am...
Central America and Mexico are facing “unprecedented pressure” as the number of people seeking international protection rises and ...
Improving air quality ‘key’ to confronting global envir...
With environmental events becoming increasingly interconnected, a new global report on air pollution published by the UN Environme...
COVID-19: Africa could miss goal to vaccinate millions ...
Africa could miss the goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10 per cent of its population against COVID-19 before the month ends...
UN experts urge Afghanistan’s new rulers to prohibit to...
Experts serving on a UN human rights treaty body called on Thursday for the new Taliban-led authorities of Afghanistan to uphold “...
Air quality improvements from COVID lockdowns confirmed
COVID-19 lockdowns brought rapid and “unprecedented” improvements in air quality in some parts of the world - but not enough to ha...
‘Major’ humanitarian crisis looms in Afghanistan, UNHCR...
A major humanitarian crisis is looming in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned again on Friday, amid ongoing uncertai...
Lebanon: Almost three-quarters of the population living...
Poverty in Lebanon has drastically increased over the past year and now affects about 74% of the population, warned the UN Economi...
Haiti earthquake: Waterborne disease poses new threat t...
A crippling earthquake followed by plummeting rains have put some 540,000 children in southwest Haiti at risk of life-threatening ...