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Commitment to Action: Moving from delivering aid to ending need

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the heads of UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO, OCHA, WFP, FAO, UNFPA and UNDP, with the endorsement of the World Bank and the International Organization for Migration, launched on Tuesday 24 May a “Commitment to Action” in which...

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Safeguarding your privacy: MEPs scrutinise new data protection agreement with US

Data on your online activities - from social media to shopping - is regularly sold to American advertisers. Strong data protection standards are in place in the EU to protect your privacy, but this is not the case in the US. The EU is now negotiating...

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WHS: New charter for persons with disabilities endorsed at UN humanitarian summit

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Sign language interpreter at the special session on the inclusion of persons with disabilities into...

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Ban condemns terrorist attacks killing dozens of civilians in two coastal Syrian cities

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Destruction in Salah Ed Din neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria.

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