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UN rights chief calls for action to address Central Mediterranean Sea migrant crisis

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Migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya by the NGO, SOS Méditerranée.

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Myanmar: UN condemns deadly military airstrike on crowd of civilians

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Bagan, a city in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar.

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800,000 children to be vaccinated against measles and polio across earthquake-stricken northwest Syria

A measles and polio vaccination campaign was be launched across northwest Syria to protect some 800,000 children under five years from the two potentially deadly but preventable diseases, on April 6.

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Two months on from Türkiye earthquakes, enormous challenges remain for 2.5 million children in need of humanitarian support

Two months after two devastating earthquakes hit Türkiye and northern Syria, 2.5 million children in Türkiye remain in need of humanitarian support and are at risk of falling into poverty, child labour or child marriage, UNICEF warned, on April 6.

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