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GENEVA / VENEZUELA ELECTIONS
A spokesperson for the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) said the “wishes of the Venezuelan people to participate or not” in Sunday’s elections “need to be respected.” UNTV CH
28 July 2017
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SOUTH SUDAN / WAU DETENTION CENTRE
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has built the first female juvenile detention centre of its kind in the country. The Wau Juvenile Detention Centre was handed over to the Government…
28 July 2017
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SOMALIA / MENTAL HEALTH
The UN held a capacity-building workshop for mental health professionals in Baidoa, the capital of Somalia’s South West state. Mental health services in Somalia have been on the back burner of health…
28 July 2017
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CAR / LACROIX
The UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix arrived Sunday in Central-African Republic to help find a solution to prevent escalation of violence which threatens to undermine the ongoing peace…
31 July 2017
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UN / CHINA DPRK
The Chinese ambassador to the UN said if the United States and North Korea, as the “two principle parties” to the issue of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, “refuse to move towards what is…
31 July 2017
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UN / VENEZUELA HUMAN RIGHTS
A United Nations spokesperson said the UN human rights office (OHCHR) regretted the death of at least ten people in the weekend protests over Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly elections and called on…
31 July 2017
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NIGER / MIGRANTS
In 2016 only, some 330 000 people travelled through Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries, fleeing persecution, danger and poverty at home. Most are considered economic migrants but the UN…
1 August 2017
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LEBANON / SYRIAN STUDENTS
At their school in Syria, Sara and Taqla were the top students. The war which engulfed their hometown of Maaloulah forced the sisters to flee to Lebanon four years ago. UNHCR
1 August 2017
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UN / VENEZUELA REAX
Reacting to newest development in Venezuela’s crisis, the UN Secretary-General, through his spokesperson, urged “all Venezuelans, particularly those representing the powers of the state to make all…
1 August 2017
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UN / YEMEN HUMANITARIAN
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Director for Yemen compared the situation in the country to a bus “racing towards the edge of a cliff; instead of hitting the brakes and turn[ing]…
1 August 2017
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IAEA / AMANO
Adressing the IAEA Board of Governors IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said “the measures implemented by Iran, and the further commitments it has undertaken, represent a positive step forward, but…
3 March 2014
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MOROCCO TEACHERS'TRAINING
It's an uphill battle for Talibi Mahjub.
He's just one of nearly twenty-thousand teachers scattered throughout Morocco's remote countryside -- out of touch with the latest teaching…
26 April 2005