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Three refugees from Syria have set up a self-help network that organizes language classes and a summer school for children.
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Children at the summer school take a break from a football game, in which boys and girls take part. © UNHCR/Stefanie J Steindl
More than 7,000 children have lost their lives or been maimed as a result of the brutal conflict in Syria, a senior United Nations official told the UN Security Council on Friday 27 July 2018, stressing that they had been abused by the warring parties for far too long.
“It is time for the children of Syria to believe in their own future and to learn what peace means,” Virginia Gamba, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, told the Security Council.
More than 180,000 people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in south-west Syria after weeks of escalating hostilities that have restricted aid access to the area, the UN on 27 July 2018 said.
That is, caloric restriction without starvation has extended the lifespans of these organisms. This idea was based on the assumption that restricting the consumption of total calories would lower the total metabolic rate and the production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) as well as free radicals.
By UNRWA Spokesperson Sami Mshasha on Implications of Funding Shortfall on Emergency Services in oPt*
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New report highlights risks for the future of work and social protection in the region.
MEXICO CITY 27 July 2018 (ILO)* ‒ More than half of Latin American workers are not covered by a contributory social security system covering them against risks related to illness, unemployment and old age, a new ILO report says.
Adolescent boys out of school due to the low quality of education, lack of relevance to their young lives, physical and emotional violence in schools, and conflict
RAMALLAH, 26 July 2018 (UNICEF)* – Almost all Palestinian children, between the ages of six and nine, are in school, but by age 15, nearly 25 per cent of boys and 7 per cent of girls have dropped out, according to the ‘State of Palestine: Country Report on Out-of-School Children’.
All in all, the future of the EU social democratic parties very likely depends on how the PSOE will address the migration issue.
European social democratic parties of the most populated EU countries have been trudging through stagnant water for the last ten years and will certainly keep struggling in the next decades too, unless a game change occurs.
That game changer could go by the name of Pedro Sanchez, currently Spain’s prime minister, and his attempt to revolutionize Spain’s approach towards migration.
Since the end of the 1990s, the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla have been surrounded by fences to protect Spain’s territorial integrity and expressly to keep migrants out.
26 July 2018 — The United Nations is at risk of running out of cash, the UN chief has warned, urging Member States to pay their mandatory contributions on time and in full, so that the world body can continue to deliver on its key mandates.
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