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Urgent need to secure learning for children across South Asia

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, South Asia had a chronic education crisis with 95 million children of school age being out of school. With the current COVID-19 crisis unfolding, many of the 430 million children affected by school closures in the...

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European Union and Government of Denmark support UNICEF in shipping vital supplies to Mali

A UNICEF shipment of 7.5 tons of vital health supplies is arriving in Bamako, Mali on a Danish flight of April 04, 2020, co-financed between the European Union (EU) and the Government of Denmark.

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From landmines to pandemics, on Mine Awareness Day UN chief says milestones reached by ‘working together’

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A deminer undergoing training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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UN chief calls for domestic violence ‘ceasefire’ amid ‘horrifying global surge’

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“No more femicides,” reads this graffiti, scrawled on a wall in Mexico City, where public...

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