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‘Young people care about peace’: UN Youth Envoy delivers key message to Security Council

After visiting refugee camps in Jordan, UN-backed schools in Gaza, municipalities in Kosovo and Youth Councils in Denmark, the UN’s Youth Envoy visited the Security Council on Wednesday with a simple message from the field that “young people care...

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Monsoon rains turn millions of children’s lives ‘upside down’ across South Asia

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A young boy in Bangladesh navigates a river swollen from days of monsoon rain. He is...

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UN agency helps stranded Ethiopians return home, ending ‘harrowing migration ordeal’

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After being stranded in Yemen, a group of Ethiopian migrants return to Addis Ababa with the...

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25 years after population conference, women still face challenges to ‘well-being and human rights’, says UN chief

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A mid-wife at the Sar-e-Hause medical health clinic in Tajikhan Village, Afghanistan, speaks...

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