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War drives number of forcibly displaced worldwide to 18-year high, says UN report

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Syrian refugees in Kurdistan's Domiz camp.

China: ‘Benefit the Masses’ Campaign Surveilling Tibetans

The Chinese government, under the rationale of a campaign to improve rural living standards, has sent more than 20,000 officials and communist party cadres to Tibetan villages to undertake intrusive surveillance of people,...

Collective effort, political commitment required to address conflicts, transnational threats, say participants at OSCE Annual Security Review Conference

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Border police trainees from Afghanistan. Assisting Afghanistan is one of the key themes of the 2013 OSCE A...

Statement attributable to UNICEF spokesman Martin Dawes on the reported killing of children in Nigeria

UNICEF condemns in the strongest terms the attack which has reportedly left at least nine pupils dead in Maiduguri, north east Nigeria.