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Libyan national conference postponed, nearly 500,000 children at ‘direct risk’ from fighting around Tripoli

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As renewed fighting broke out in Tripoli, Libya, in early-September, UNHCR’s local office...

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UN’s Grandi slams ‘toxic language of politics’ aimed at refugees, migrants

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Colombian customs post at Rumichaca, border of Ecuador with Colombia. The UN refugee chief...

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Yemen: 11 more ‘terrible, senseless’ civilian deaths reported, following attack in Sana’a - top UN official

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Suad, aged 18, begs in the middle of the road between Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, and Saada with...

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Urgently address ‘defining challenges of our time’, to empower youth worldwide, top UN official tells forum

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President of ECOSOC, Inga Rhonda King (centre), addresses the ECOSOC Youth Forum, 8 April 2019., by...

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