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World Bank, UNICEF call for solid steps to address child undernutrition in Vietnam

Child undernutrition remains a significant development challenge in Vietnam, representing a staggering yet avoidable loss to the nation’s human capital and economic growth potential.

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New UNHCR evacuation of refugees from Libya to Italy, as Tripoli fighting continues

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A Somali couple and their one-year-old son ride a bus to the airport in Tripoli, Libya for an evacuation flight to Italy....

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Joint Statement: Government of Rwanda, UNHCR and African Union agree to evacuate refugees out of Libya

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Refugees from Somalia, Syria and Eritrea board a bus at UNHCR’s Gathering and Departure Facility in Tripoli, April 2019.

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UN report on Syria conflict highlights inhumane detention of women and children

As the people of north-west Syria face intensifying violence, tens of thousands of women and children continue to be kept in “inhumane conditions” in a remote camp on the other side of the country, UN-appointed independent investigators said on...

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