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Canada Funds Strategic Humanitarian Response Facility In Gilgit Pakistan

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is constructing a Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) in the Gilgit Baltistan (GB) –the northern area of Pakistan, thanks to funding from the Government of Canada. This will be the seventh HRF built in...

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1.3 million children urgently need humanitarian assistance after storms batter Bay of Bengal

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August 17, 2007. Resma, 9, illuminates the platform below her neighbour's tin roof...

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UNICEF urges Governments to close data gaps on vulnerable children in residential care

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A nine-year-old child and his younger, eight-year-old, brother sit in their...

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UN condemns terrorist attack in Kabul, underscores need to protect civilians

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An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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