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UN, private sector, governments to expand cooperation in crises

Connecting Business initiative to scale up as need increases

United Nations aid and development chiefs, government officials, and business leaders pledged to expand cooperation in preparing for and responding to crises through new networks that engage the private sector, on September 19.

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Challenges and effective practices for youth engagement throughout OSCE area explored at Warsaw event

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Anna-Katharina Deininger, the Special Representative on Youth and Security of the Austrian OSCE Charimanship, speaking during an event on youth engagement held on the margins of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 18 September 2017, Warsaw.

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More than 600,000 Rohingya Children Could be in Bangladesh by the End of the Year as Demand for Humanitarian Assistance Outstrips Supply

Host communities and relief agencies are struggling to cope with the enormous demand for food, shelter and other assistance in Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have fled to in the past three weeks.

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27 million children out of school in conflict zones – UNICEF

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A girl displaced with her family by Boko Haram insurgents from their home on an island in Lake Chad, in Melea village, Lake Region, Chad, Wednesday 19 April 2017.

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More than 128 countries back pledged reforms to shape ‘21st century UN’

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Secretary-General António Guterres and US President Donald Trump (right) during the high-level meeting on reform of the United Nations.

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UN-supported campaign to immunize 150,000 Rohingya children against deadly diseases

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Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, after traveling for five hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal.

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27 empty school buses in Manhattan draw attention to 27 million children out-of-school in conflict zones

UNICEF calls on world leaders to prioritize education in emergencies

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On 17 September 2017, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Muzoon Almellehan stands for a portrait near a bus in the convoy of 27 empty school buses travels through the streets of Manhattan to shine a spotlight on 27 million out-of-school children living in conflic.

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WFP Halts Airdrops To Syria’s Deir Ezzor City As Land Corridor Opens

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Every month, WFP aims to deliver food assistance to four million vulnerable people across all 14 governorates in Syria.

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On International Day, UN highlights importance of collective action to protect ozone layer

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The Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades.

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World Hunger Again On The Rise, Driven By Conflict And Climate Change, New UN Report Says

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition released on Sep 15. At the same time, multiple forms of malnutrition are threatening the health of millions worldwide.