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EU-Funded Cash Assistance Programme Reaches 250,000 Refugees In Turkey

The number of refugees in Turkey receiving monthly cash assistance through an innovative relief programme reached 250,000 this week. The EU-funded Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) supports the most vulnerable refugee families in Turkey with a debit card to cover basic needs such as food, rent, medicine, fuel for heating and warm clothing for winter.

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Japan Provides Timely Food Support As WFP Steps Up Efforts To Prevent Famine In Yemen

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a contribution of some US$13 million from the Government of Japan to support WFP providing desperately-needed food assistance to seven million people in Yemen on Mar 07.

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Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children each year, UN health agency reports

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A polluted environment is a deadly one – particularly for young children.

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UN-backed forum in Montreal set to agree region-wide disaster risk reduction plan

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View of Saint-Paul Street, Montreal, Canada.

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UNHCR underscores humanitarian imperative for refugees as new U.S. rules announced

In light of the Executive Order regarding U.S. refugee resettlement, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, underscores that refugees are ordinary people forced to flee war, violence and persecution in their home countries and who remain in urgent need of life-saving assistance and protection.

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In Parliament this week: International Women´s Day, EU asylum rules, palm oil

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In Niger, Security Council links aid and development in fight against Boko Haram

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Security Council representatives speak to journalists during the Council's first ever visit to Niger.

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In Chad and Cameroon, Security Council hears of Boko Haram terror and survivors' needs

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The UN Security Council meeting with internally displaced persons in northern Cameroon on 3 March 2017.

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New European Union returns policies put children at risk

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On 14 August 2016 in the Protection of Civilians (POC) site near Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan, children play at dusk.

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On Wildlife Day, UN spotlights youth's role as today's change-makers, tomorrow's custodians

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African bush elephants in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Despite increased poaching in many parts of Africa, the elephant population in Mara is presently growing.