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“Children are bearing the brunt of intensifying violence in northwest Syria. More than 500 children were injured or killed in the first nine months of 2019, and at least 65 children have been killed or injured in the month of December alone.

Following is a statement of APA President Rosie Phillips Davis, PhD, in response to the passage of legislation that provides federal funding for gun violence research.

The UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock in a camp for displaced people in Sana’a, Yemen on 29 November 2018.

A family is trying to build a new life in Chile after migrating from Vargas State, Venezuela.

A young girl drinks water in the Bakassi IDP camp, in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

“Children and young people from around the world have taken to the streets in recent months to demand their rights.

The 40-year-old conflict in Afghanistan is having a devastating impact on children and parties are failing in their duty to shield them from its consequences, UNICEF said in a new report released on Dec 16, 2019.

With millions of workers increasingly affected by the climate crisis the route to securing livelihoods in the future lies in a wholesale transformation of how we power the planet and manage our resources, the UN chief said on Thursday, at a COP25 climate action event focused on greener jobs.

A woman and her family wade through a flooded plain to reach their home in Thaker, Unity state, South Sudan.