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World Humanitarian Day: UNHCR chief pays tribute to sacrifice of aid workers

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UNHCR staff member Paul Kenya registers refugees from Burundi as they board a bus to take them to the new Mahama refugee camp...

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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova deplores the loss of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquity

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UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova

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Statement by Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director on attack on teachers’ office in Yemen

Last night, 13 educators and four of their children paid a most terrible price in the continuing conflict in Yemen – killed in an airstrike on a teachers’ office in Amran, just north of Sana’a. Twenty people, including one child, were injured. The...

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UNESCO chief deplores killing of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquities

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Archaeological site of Palmyra in Syria.

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