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Prof. Kenneth Jacobsen Rings the Bell of World Peace and Love in DC

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Kenneth Jacobsen, practice professor of law at Temple University,...

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Repairing the Earth with Love, a Significant International Response from Nearly 200 Countries

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The "Peace Declaration" was jointly proclaimed at the 2001 World Citizenship Assembly (WCA) in the presence of over 600...

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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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