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Children’s rights and early learning are to receive a boost through two new global partnerships between the LEGO Group, the LEGO Foundation and UNICEF, the celebration of which took place on March 13 in New York.

“The appalling crisis in Syria is entering a fifth year. A crisis that continues to exact an unconscionable human cost. A crisis that the international community has failed to stop.

Tail unit of an RBK-series cluster bomb outside Sirte, Libya. Numerous small craters from the detonation of submunitions were located nearby.

The link between disaster risk reduction and health has been underscored by crises such as the Malawi floods.

NPakistani authorities should immediately halt the execution of an alleged child offender scheduled for March 19, 2015, and commute his sentence, Human Rights Watch said on March 15.

In Yogyakarta, Indonesia, women at a community meeting discuss the reconstruction of their village in the wake of the 2006 tsunami and earthquake.

Travel restrictions imposed by the government of Ukraine have contributed to serious delays in the delivery of humanitarian aid, particularly medicines and medical equipment, to civilians in rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said on 13 March. Human Rights Watch released a video based on interviews with medical personnel and patients in eastern Ukraine.

Women's protest action during the adoption of the CSW59 Political Declaration.