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Child marriage on the rise in Horn of Africa as drought crisis intensifies

Girls as young as twelve are being forced into child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at “alarming rates” in the Horn of Africa, as the most severe drought in forty years pushes families to the edge – warns UNICEF.

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Staggering scale of grave violations against children in conflict revealed in new UNICEF analysis

Between 2005 and 2020, the United Nations verified over 266,000 grave violations against children committed by parties to conflict in more than 30 conflict situations across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, UNICEF said today in a new...

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Ukraine reconstruction is a ‘long road’ but it must start now: Guterres

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At a hospital in western Ukraine, doctors managed to remove a four-centimetre-...

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Tai Ji Men’s Bell of World Peace and Love Rung by IRF Summit 2022 Co-Chairs

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From left, Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze and Amb. Sam Brownback hold hands to show solidarity for the...

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