World
Nearly 386,000 children will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day, says UNICEF
2018’s first baby – a girl – was born at 1.44 am on New Year’s Day in Suva, the island capital of Fiji.
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Peacekeepers saved many lives despite challenges, UN officials stress at year's end
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) works to deliver election materials and to deploy security personnel ahead of elections scheduled for 29 January 2017.
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'No clear evidence' social media leads to more violent behavior, UN-backed study reports
Photo of Apple’s iPhone.
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WHO, WFP and UNICEF: Yemen’s families cannot withstand another day of war, let alone another 1,000
“We have passed the grim milestone of 1,000 days of war in Yemen. As violence has escalated in recent days, children and families are yet again being killed in attacks and bombardments.
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European Commission Provides Vital Support For WFP Food Assistance In Syria
This year, the European Commission Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) contributed US$22.8 million for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide life-saving food assistance for families across Syria.
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Donor Support Underpins WFP’s Assistance To Malian Refugees In Mauritania
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes contributions from Canada, the European Union (ECHO), Germany, Japan, Spain and the United States Food for Peace (USAID/FFP), which have sustained assistance to refugees in Mauritania in 2017. The US$11.7 million in funding has allowed the agency to provide uninterrupted support to some 52,000 Malian refugees in Mbera camp.
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Children under attack at shocking scale in conflicts around the world, says UNICEF
Drawings made by young Rohingya refugee children shortly after arriving from Myanmar in Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
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Obama Misses 'Fascinating' Work of Presidency, Warns of 'Different Realities' Online
U.S. President Barack Obama told Britain's Prince Harry one danger of the internet is "that people can have entirely different realities" and surround themselves in information that "reinforces their current biases."
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OSCE Chair-in-Office Kneissl and Secretary General Greminger welcome exchange of detainees in eastern Ukraine, call for full adherence to ceasefire
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger welcomed the news of the large-scale exchange of prisoners and detainees in eastern Ukraine and urged the sides to build on this momentum in order to achieve further progress in reaching a peaceful resolution of the crisis in and around Ukraine.
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State Department: US, Russia Agree to Continue Diplomacy Over N. Korea
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have "agreed to continue to work toward a diplomatic solution to achieve a denuclearized Korean peninsula," the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.
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Human Rights
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
The Peace Bell Resonates at the 27th Eurasian Economic Summit
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020