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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at High-level Event, “The Roadmap to Realizing Rights: Every Woman Every Child’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health.”

EU-Turkey cooperation on migration should be uncoupled from the EU accession negotiating process, say Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs in a repor voted on Tuesday. MEP praise Turkey for hosting the largest refugee population in the world, and note that it remains a "key strategic partner for the EU" but nonetheless call for progress on rule of law and fundamental values and "a more structured and frequent political dialogue on key thematic issues".

MEPs have another busy week ahead of them

The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s on 13 March agreed on the need for a new set of connectivity targets to help governments harness broadband networks and services more effectively to meet the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the UN last autumn.

UNOCI on patrol in Abidjan in the wake of recent attacks.

Syrian psychiatrist Nahla, 34, listens to a patient in her office at the UNHCR-funded hospital where she works in central Damascus, Syria.

One-year-old Godfrey was treated for acute malnutrition in the UNICEF supported Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital, in Juba, South Sudan.

A street lined with rubble and destroyed buildings in the Old City area of Homs, Syria.