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In countries around the world, migrant and displaced children have been largely excluded from national response and recovery plans to the COVID-19 pandemic and have experienced a significant reduction in access to essential services and care, UNICEF announced on December 18. These findings are based on data collected through a recent UNICEF survey of 159 countries in which it has an operational presence.

The Trump administration has imposed a ban on imports of cotton products manufactured by a Chinese state-controlled firm because of its reliance on the forced labor of detained ethnic minorities.

A mother awaiting immunization of their children at Nabilatuk H/C IV, Kaabong District. Uganda

A Hungarian member of the European Parliament abruptly resigned from the EU body after police broke up a party he attended in Brussels because it violated coronavirus restrictions.

More than 200 people have been arrested, a rights group said Sunday, as Belarusians continued to protest longtime President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk.

In a camp in northern Syria, a young girl wears a mask to protect her from COVID-19.

The Early Warning Analysis of Acute Food Insecurity Hotspots – describes a toxic combination of conflict, economic decline, climate extremes and the COVID-19 pandemic that is driving people further into the emergency phase of food insecurity.

Russia reported 20,582 new COVID cases Friday, a record daily high.

Brazilian prosecutors are charging President Jair Bolsonaro's son, Flavio, with corruption during his tenure as a state lawmaker.

Volunteers at work in the quarantine facility on the Thai border with Myanmar.