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UNICEF and partners have secured the release of over 1,000 children from armed groups in the Central African Republic this year, more than five times the total number of children released in 2013.

Syrian children stand in the entryway of their tent shelter in the Bab Al Salame camp for internally displaced persons in Aleppo Governate.

The European Union is providing coordinated assistance through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism which has been activated upon the request of Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina due to severe flooding in both countries.

A Syrian youth walks past a destroyed ambulance in the Saif al-Dawla district of the war-torn northern city of Aleppo on January 12, 2013.

Even in countries where clear legal protections for women’s ownership of land exist, local customs often continue to work against equality for female farmers, according to new data released this week by FAO and the World Bank.

In a landmark development for the protection of children, the Government of Yemen signed an action plan with the United Nations to end and prevent the recruitment of children by the Yemeni Armed Forces.

Girls with little or no education are far more likely to be married as children, suffer domestic violence, live in poverty, and lack a say over household spending or their own health care than better-educated peers, which harms them, their children, and communities, a new report by the World Bank Group finds.

Police officers perform an identity check and body pat-down of a young man in Paris, France on June 6, 2011.

Anti-government protesters in Thailand should immediately cease intimidating the media and occupying TV stations in Bangkok, Human Rights Watch said.

Cambodian security forces open fire during unrest on November 12, 2014.

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