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Pandora and UNICEF announced a new global partnership to support the world’s most vulnerable children to lead healthier and safer lives and fulfil their potential on Sep 05, 2019. The three-year partnership between the international jewellry retailer and the United Nations Children’s Fund will also fund life skills training, with a focus on programmes that support female empowerment.

One in three young people in 30 countries said they have been a victim of online bullying, with one in five reporting having skipped school due to cyberbullying and violence, in a new poll released on Sep 04, 2019 by UNICEF and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on Violence against Children.

In drought-stricken regions in Somalia, families are abandoning their homes and heading for cities or enclaves where aid is available. (28 March 2017)

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the media in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 2 September 2019.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande at a press conference.

A major protest planned for Saturday was called off by organizers after an appeals board denied permission for the demonstration.

It is not clear whether some protesters would still demonstrate on their own.

A lawyer for Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera on Friday asked that he get a speedy trial and medical attention after more than four weeks of incarceration.

The number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela has now reached 4.3 million and is growing by the day. As of today, there is no end in sight to this massive population movement, which includes an increasing number of people with vulnerabilities, many of them in need of international protection, as well as a large group seeking access to basic services and employment opportunities.

At least 40 people are estimated to have drowned off the coast of Libya in the latest boat disaster on the Mediterranean. This shocking incident has prompted UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency to renew its urgent call for action to save lives.

A general view of Lovua Refugee Settlement in Angola, March 2018.