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Increasingly complex armed conflicts have dire impact on children – UN envoy

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On 5 August 2016 in Aleppo, Syria, a child with spinal muscular atrophy who needs special medical...

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UNESCO Director-General welcomes opening of trial on the destruction of heritage in Timbuktu

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BandarinTimbuktu, Mali

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At Security Council, Ban calls for eradicating weapons of mass destruction ‘once and for all’

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A wide view of the Security Council open debate on the topic “Challenges in addressing proliferation of weapons of...

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'All of humanity is part of this story,' UNESCO says on Day to remember slavery and its abolition

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Shackles used to bind slaves.

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