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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of JPY 400 million (just under US$4 million) from the Government of Japan to support some of the most vulnerable Palestinians living in Gaza.

The Trump administration has rescinded policies that direct colleges and universities to increase diversity by considering race in college admissions.

In June 2018, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore interacts with children in Yemen at the child friendly space at the Alqatee'a Health Centre in Aden.

The economy of Mali is losing 265 billion CFA francs (US$450 million) – more than 4 percent of annual GDP – to the effects of child undernutrition, a multi-agency study has found. The Cost of Hunger in Mali (COHA), blames the losses on increased healthcare costs, additional burdens on the education system and, further down the line, reduced workforce productivity.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$6.5 million contribution from the United States of America in support of Congolese and Burundian refugees in Rwanda. This contribution restores full food rations to these refugees and brings the total food and nutrition assistance provided by USAID/Food for Peace in Rwanda to US$10 million this year.

Save the Children is calling for an urgent and significant scale up of education programming for Rohingya children living in Bangladesh’s overcrowded refugee camps, ahead of the UN leadership’s most high-profile visit to Cox’s Bazar to date.

The Peer Review Report of the EU Stress Test in Belarus has been presented on July 3. The review has been carried out by the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG).

Terrorist group al-Qaida's affiliate in Mali claimed responsibility Monday for an attack that left four civilians dead a day earlier, according to U.S.-based intelligence group SITE.

Shokat Ali Walizadeh (left), an ethnic Hazara who fled from Afghanistan to Austria in 2008, helps two Afghan boys who arrived in 2015 adapt to life in Austria. With them is the boys’ Austrian host, Marilise Gudenus.

Twelve teenage soccer players and their adult coach have been found alive in a cave in Thailand nine days after they went missing.