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SOUTH SUDAN: UNICEF demands action to save children from 'living nightmare'
19 May 2014 News
UN warns that hundreds of thousands of children in the country's most crisis-torn areas are at imminent risk of death and disease, including the threat of cholera.
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ARMED CONFLICT: UN meeting targets 'killer robots'
15 May 2014 News
[14 May 2014] – The top United Nations official in Geneva today urged bold action by diplomats at the start of the world...
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Children witnessing ‘sheer brutality,’ says senior UN official
14 May 2014 News
UNICEF urges international community to ‘stand up’ and help end the "forgotten" crisis as soon as possible.
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MALDIVES: Country should repeal new regulation providing for death penalty, says UN
30 Apr 2014 News
UN voices deep concern about a new regulation that effectively overturns a 60-year moratorium on the use of capital punishment and allows for children as young as seven to be sentenced to death for certain crimes.
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SOUTH SUDAN: UN says surging violence claimed lives of children, worsened malnutrition among survivors
30 Apr 2014 News
UNICEF warns that the surging violence is exacerbating an already “very dangerous” malnutrition crisis.
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SYRIA: UN rights chief condemns rampant use of torture by Syrian forces, opposition groups
15 Apr 2014 News
The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the rampant use of torture, including allegedly of children, in detention facilities across Syria by Government forces and some armed opposition groups.
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ARMED CONFLICT: UN envoy details grave violations against children in conflict areas
20 Mar 2014 News
[13 March 2014] – Armed conflicts have intensified recently in Syria and other countries, making such places increasingly...
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SYRIA: Number of children affected by conflict has doubled since last year, says UN
11 Mar 2014 News
As conflict enters its fourth year, report by UNICEF shows number of Syrian children affected has more than doubled in the past year.  
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SOUTH SUDAN: Fresh fighting hampering efforts to help children, UNICEF warns
5 Mar 2014 News
Outbreaks of fresh fighting in South Sudan is likely to displace tens of thousands of additional people and is hampering efforts to help children in need, warns UNICEF.
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE: UN, African Union sign landmark agreement to curb sexual violence in African countries
4 Mar 2014 News
The United Nations and the African Union (AU) affirmed their common commitment “to put an end to history’s oldest and least condemned crime” by signing landmark agreement on the prevention of and response to conflict-related sexual violence in Africa, a senior UN official today said.
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