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Peacekeeping ‘flagship of the UN enterprise,’ Ban says ahead of Day honouring 'blue helmets'

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lays a wreath at a ceremony at UN Headquarters for fallen peacekeepers.

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‘Nobody Left Outside’ campaign launched as UN warns of dire shelter conditions for refugees

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Newly-arrived family in Tanzania’s Nduta camp. Burundi refugee Perrie fled her home with her three children in December 2015.

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UNHCR warns of worsening shelter conditions for refugees, launches global campaign

A huge shortfall in funds for sheltering refugees is severely undermining efforts to tackle the biggest global displacement crisis since World War II, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned on May 18.

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Yemeni people must be at centre of reinvigorated crisis response – senior UN relief official

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On the road to Qatabir, Yemen, many bridges have been damaged, making life hard for everyone including distribution.

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EU has largely ‘abandoned’ Greece to deal with migrant crisis on its own, UN expert warns

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Refugee and migrant children receive recreational materials from the Hellenic Committee for UNICEF and partner Olympiacos Football Club, during a visit to the Eleonas Reception Centre in Athens, Greece.

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Nearly one in five suicide bombers used by Boko Haram is now a child – UN

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Refugees and returnees who have fled Boko Haram violence in Borno State, Nigeria, sheltering in Niger's Guesseré village on the border.

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Unique education fund to be launched next week at UN World Humanitarian Summit

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A young boy writes in his maths book in the Tomping Protection of Civilians site, on the base of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Juba, the capital.

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UNICEF welcomes FARC’s announcement to release all children in its ranks

FARC, Government of Colombia deal is historic, children’s agency says

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A young woman who had spent her teenage years with the armed group in Colombia met with UNICEF in an undisclosed location on 4 March 2016.

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100 babies born every day in areas worst hit by Ecuador quake – UNICEF

One month after quake, better conditions but persistent needs

Up to 100 babies on average are born every day in Esmeraldas and Manabí, the provinces worst hit by the Ecuador earthquake, UNICEF said on May 16, 2016.

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Korea needs to boost productivity, increase employment and stoke economic activity as part of efforts to reverse current trends toward slower growth and low inflation, according to a new report from the OECD.

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A family in Cap Haïtien, Haiti, loads supplies onto a boat during the flooding in 2014.