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An estimated 54 per cent of South Asian youth leave school without the necessary skills to get a decent job in the next decade, according to data produced by the Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Education), the Education Commission, and UNICEF.

The world’s mountain and glacier regions are facing unprecedented challenges due to climate change, imposing a crippling effect on the people and economies that rely on them, the UN’s weather agency explained on Tuesday, ahead of a summit to address the world’s rapidly-changing water systems.

A woman attends her produce post in a market in zone 3, Guatemala City, Guatemala. (August 2009)

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore speaks with children at the Umm Battah Girls School in Kadugli, the capital city of South Kordofan State, Sudan.

Protests in cities across the world in recent days show that “people are hurting and want to be heard” by political leaders who must now address a “growing deficit of trust”, said the UN chief on Friday.

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.