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More than 2.8 million people, including Venezuelan children, adolescents and families, will gain improved access to safe drinking water after a collaboration agreement signed this week between UNICEF and the Government of Venezuela.

Protesters gather in front of the headquarters of the Sudanese army in the capital, Khartoum. (11 April 2019)

Refugee camps in Cox's Bazar turned to mud after the rains, with some areas completely flooded.

Institutional affairs / Justice and citizens’ rights

Students in front of a sign promoting hand washing at an elementary school in Kiryandongo District, Uganda.

A government soldier leaves a school in Kodok, South Sudan, which had been used to accommodate the South Sudan People Defense Forces.

Two young men walk in the flooded Shibaburi area of Pemba after heavy rains poured down in the Pemba region of Mozambique

Each morning, around 5 am, hundreds of boys and girls cross the border from Venezuela to head to the buses that will take them to school in Cucuta, Colombia.

Modern slavery is an increasingly important global issue. According to the International Labour Organization, over 40 million people are subjected to various forms of exploitation including forced labour, debt bondage, sexual exploitation and forced marriage. Modern slavery poses a particular risk to those moving to new and unfamiliar places, even inside their own country. Experts are more convinced than ever that climate change is rapidly becoming the biggest driver of forced migration. This in turn is leading to greater numbers of people becoming vulnerable to contemporary forms of slavery.