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Friday’s Daily Brief: Refugee children missing out on school, Ebola in Uganda, Fresh violence in Yemen, 20 years of Timor-Lest independence, Enforced disappearances

August 30, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

A recap of Friday’s stories: Over half of refugee children missing an education; new Ebola case in Uganda; funding gap in Yemen leaves many at […]

More than half of world’s refugee children ‘do not get an education’, warns UNHCR

August 30, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

Refugee children in their millions are missing out on an education, the UN said on Friday, in an appeal to host countries to back more […]

Thursday’s Daily Brief: UN refugee agency on Venezuelan migrant crisis, dramatic resurgence’ of measles in Europe, a UN News visit to former nuclear test site, Colombian law for disabled persons receives praise, Security Council on violence in Yemen

August 29, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

A recap of Thursday’s stories: ‘No end in sight’ to massive movement of Venezuelan migrants and refugees; ‘Dramatic resurgence’ of measles threatens Europe; Report from […]

Venezuela migrant crisis begs a ‘coherent, predictable and harmonized’ response: UNHCR

August 29, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

There is “no end in sight” to the massive movement of Venezuelan migrants and refugees, now at around 4.3 million in number, the UN refugee […]

Teen activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York by boat, putting ‘climate crisis’ in spotlight

August 29, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

After a two-week sail across the Atlantic Ocean, young climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in the Big Apple on Wednesday to participate in two major climate […]

Partnerships with civil society and youth ‘essential’ for a future that leaves no one behind: General Assembly President

August 28, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

Partnerships with civil society and youth are essential to achieving the goals of key UN-backed international agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, […]

‘Perseverance is key’ to Iraq’s future, UN envoy tells Security Council

August 28, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

Although Iraq is “hard at work building on progress made to date”, a top United Nations official told the Security Council on Wednesday that decades […]

Corruption undermines democracy and contributes to instability, warns senior UN anti-crime official

August 28, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

Corruption undermines democratic institutions, slows economic development and contributes to governmental instability, Mirella Dummar-Frahi, Civil Society Team Leader at the United Nations Office on Drugs […]

‘There has never been a more urgent time,’ to safeguard children’s right to safe water and sanitation, says UNICEF

August 28, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

Access to safe drinking water is a right critical to a child’s survival, yet protracted crises have left some 420 million children without basic sanitation, […]

Football is ‘refuge for those who have left everything’; UN initiative aims to bolster well-being of refugee, migrant children in Peru

August 27, 2019 chhaymam@chhaymam.com 0

Sport brings people together “regardless of conditions or flags”, a senior United Nations official in Perú said on Tuesday referring to a new initiative launched over this past weekend to […]

World News in Brief: Displacement in South Sudan, fraud centres in the Philippines, new migration patterns in Latin America April 30, 2026
In South Sudan, the UN aid coordination office [OCHA] reported on Thursday that conflict and flooding continue to drive displacement and food insecurity higher throughout the country.
World News in Brief: Tackling the AI digital divide, deadly migration journeys, Lucy Hale named new WFP Goodwill Ambassador April 21, 2026
UN-led efforts are continuing to ensure that all countries can benefit and regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it increasingly shapes our economies, societies and daily lives.
Fleeing Sudan's war, refugees rebuild their lives in Uganda April 14, 2026
On the outskirts of the Ugandan town of Biale, tents are scattered along dirt roads that give way to open fields. The Kriandongo camp sits between a shattered past and a life tentatively being rebuilt. Here, the story does not end with fleeing war. Another phase begins, one where days are measured not in hours, […]
Kidnapped and tortured on an infamous migration route to Saudi Arabia March 28, 2026
An Ethiopian man describes how he was tortured by human traffickers as he went in search of his nephew on a now infamous migration route from the Horn of Africa through Yemen to Saudi Arabia.
A former refugee takes on a world in flight March 20, 2026
Barham Salih has spent much of his life crossing borders, first as a young Kurdish exile fleeing repression in Iraq, and now as the UN top official for refugees, confronting a world in which more than 117 million people have been forced from their homes.