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UNHCR commemorates 2 years of the #IBelong campaign to eradicate global statelessness

Campaign to end Statelessness marks its second year noting progress – and challenges ahead.

Significant progress has been made to eradicate statelessness around the world, but ongoing conflicts are putting those advances at risk. Marking the second anniversary of the global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Filippo Grandi, renewed the call for a concerted effort by the international community to put an end to statelessness- a human rights injustice that affects at least 10 million people globally.

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Syria: UN education envoy urges International Criminal Court probe into Idlib school attack

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Young Omar and his parents, who fled the Syrian city of Idlib and crossed into Turkey, have been accepted for resettlement in France.

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MEPs sound wake-up call on nuclear threats

Worsening relations between nuclear-armed states, such as Russia and the US or India and Pakistan, but also Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons or to deploy them to more territories in Europe, are making the EU’s security environment ever more tense, say MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday. They call on these states to reduce nuclear weapons, move them away from deployment into storage and to diminish their role in military doctrines.

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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on deadly attacks on schools in Idlib, northwest Syria

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A boy, displaced from ongoing conflict in Syria.

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‘Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit,’ Ban tells memorial honouring fallen UN staff

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145 children released armed groups in South Sudan – UNICEF

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Children hand over their weapons after being released from an armed group in South Sudan this past March.

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UN chief ‘condemns’ terrorist attack in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province

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Street scene in Quetta, Baluchistan province, Pakistan.

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UN receives reports of executions and use of ‘human shields’ by ISIL in battle for Mosul

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A young internally displaced Iraqi girl stands on a dusty path at the edge of Debaga camp, near Mosul in northern Iraq.

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EU defence: more Nato or closer cooperation between member states?

Europe is facing unprecedented security challenges. Will the traditional reliance on Nato suffice or should the EU invest more in its own defence and move towards stronger cooperation between member states? On Monday 24 October the foreign affairs committee votes on a report calling for a permanent and systematic defence cooperation between EU countries as part of a European Defence Union.

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Head of UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan to step down in November

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Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Ellen Margrethe Løj.