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Yemen: amid major roadblocks, an ‘unprecedented’ response to an unprecedented tragedy

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A 12-year-old boy carries soap supplied by the UN in the Bani Harith neighbourhood of Sana’a...

The United Nations World Food Programme Launches “Feed Our Future” A Global Cinema Advertising Campaign Dedicated to Ending Hunger

A powerful new global cinema advertising campaign featuring leading names from the film, advertising and humanitarian worlds, and aimed at stirring global cinema audiences into action to tackle global hunger, launched in theaters across the world and...

As Yemen conflict rages, ‘all too abundantly clear’ millions of civilians are the ones losing – UN relief chief

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A school in the city of Taiz, in south-western Yemen, bears the scars of intense fighting.

Refugee and migrant children arriving on Greek Islands up by one-third in 2018 - UNICEF

The number of refugee and migrant children who arrived on the Greek Islands between January and August has risen by 32 percent compared to the same time-period last year. Over 7,000 children – on average more than 850 every month – have made the...