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(UN News Centre) – The United Nations food relief agency today said it is increasingly concerned about deteriorating food security and growing rates of child malnutrition in war-plagued [...]

(The Guardian) – In a small hut in an isolated village in northern Uganda, 10 men sat together in a circle drawing pictures. All former child soldiers, they had been given colouring pencils [...]

(UN News Centre) – As Iraqi Government forces close in on Mosul, the United Nations human rights wing said today that it continues to receive reports of grave violations against civilians, [...]

(Defence for Children International) – A global network of NGOs welcomed today’s appointment of Manfred Nowak as the independent expert who will lead the Global Study on Children Deprived [...]

(OSRSG – CAAC) – In a new report on the situation of children affected by the armed conflict in Colombia, the UN Secretary-General reiterated his full support for the peace process [...]

(Human Rights Watch) – At attack on October 21, 2016, hit the women’s side of al-Khanli mosque in Daquq, 30 kilometers south of Kirkuk, Iraq, killing at least 13 women and children. The [...]

(Amnesty International) – South Sudanese government forces are responsible for deliberately killing civilians, raping women and girls and looting property in July in Juba, the country’s [...]

(Human Rights Watch)  – The United Nations General Assembly will select new members for the Human Rights Council in elections to be held in New York on October 28. Russia is running against [...]

(Norwegian Refugee Council) – Ibrahim Hussein Mohammed lost two daughters on the dangerous escape route leaving their home in the outskirts of Mosul. “Ten minutes into our journey, two of [...]

(UN News Centre) – Describing the bombardment and crippling siege of Syria’s war-ravaged eastern Aleppo as “crimes of historic proportions” the top United Nations rights official today [...]