Aug 11, 2016
thenational.ae, July 25, 2016 Kabul — Civilian casualties in Afghanistan soared to a record high in the first half of 2016, the UN said on Monday. Children in particular are paying a heavy price for growing insecurity as the conflict escalates, said the UN...
Aug 9, 2016
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2016, ipsnews.net, by Aruna Duttoriginal – Narrow national interests are threatening to derail an upcoming UN summit which aims to bring countries together to find a more humane and coordinated approach to large movements of refugees and...
Jul 31, 2016
Reuters, Thursday, 30 June 2016 The number of Afghans voluntarily returning from Pakistan has plummeted this year * Pakistan has world’s second largest refugee population * Just 6,000 Afghans returned home this year, vs 58,211 in 2015 * Afghanistan says working...
Jul 28, 2016
irinnews.org, July 25, 2016, original Ten months ago, the UN’s 2030 Agenda laid out an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals to be met over the next 15 years as 193 countries committed themselves to “leaving no one behind” in the endeavour to end poverty and...
Jun 26, 2016
Haitians wash clothes in a stream January 8, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Mario Tama / Getty) Since cholera first broke out in Haiti five years ago, Doctors Without Borders estimates that it has killed as many as 30,000 people, and another 2 million have survived...
