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'Failure to broker peace' hinders solutions to displacement, UN refugee chief tells Security Council

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Pictured here, Rohingya refugees including women and children cross from Myanmar into...

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UN General Assembly again calls for lifting US embargo against Cuba

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Wide view of the General Assembly meeting to consider the necessity of ending the economic,...

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Violent discipline, sexual abuse and homicides stalk millions of children worldwide – UNICEF

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Javier*, 10, looks onto the playground at his school in San...

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9,500 children dying from diarrhoea each year in Afghanistan – UNICEF

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Boys crowd around a hand pump for a drink of water in a school in the city of Mazar, north Afghanistan. 2011

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