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A UNICEF staff member with children in flood-affected Pibor Town, South Sudan.

Syria, Al-Hasakah Governorate, 11 October 2019, women displaced by renewed fighting, travel sitting on top of a pick up truck

Hurricane Dorian as seen from the International Space Station on 2 September 2019.

In his annual message for UN Day this Thursday, Secretary-General António Guterres issued a reminder of the role the Organization should be playing, focusing on the the real problems of real people, as a “shared moral anchor” amid “stormy global seas”.

Since 2015, approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country as the Latin American nation's political, humanitarian and economic crisis drags on, creating one of the “direst” displacement crises in the world, the UN and European Union said on Wednesday, ahead of a solidarity conference next week.

After nearly two weeks of fighting in northeast Syria, the UN’s humanitarian wing has estimated that around 180,000 have been forced to leave their homes or shelters, including 80,000 children, all in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.

A landmark UN migration study published on Monday shows that 93 per cent of Africans making the journey to European countries along irregular routes, would do it again, despite facing often life-threatening danger.

Millions of children living in areas affected by conflict and disaster are at risk because of substantial shortages in funding for lifesaving humanitarian programmes, UNICEF said on Oct 22, 2019.

Organized by International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR), the 40th Congress of FIDH will take place in Taipei, Taiwan, during 21-25 October 2019. Founded in 1922, FIDH is the first international human rights NGO headquartered in Paris consisting of 184 organizations from 112 countries to defend all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. TAHR is founded on the International Human Rights Day, 1984, committed to securing and protecting human rights from all forms of violation.

Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief addresses the UN General Assembly