31/08/2018
The Government of Greece has been urged by the United Nations to do more to help thousands of asylum-seekers and migrants who have been “crammed” into island reception centres, amid reports that children have tried to take their own lives there.
UNHCR/Markel Redondo | A woman hangs washing out to dry at the Vathy Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on the island of Samos, Greece. Refugee families are struggling at the reception centres on the island of Samos due to overcrowding, leading to deteriorating conditions.
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31/08/2018
29 August, 2018 (UN Women)* – After 10 years of advocacy, ethnic Sulaliyyate women of Morocco finally have equal land rights. On 23 July, a State-run lottery distributed some 860 plots of land equally among men and women, as part of ongoing efforts to privatize land throughout the country.
Mahjouba Mhamda and Cherkauia Mhamda. Photo: UN Women/Hassan Chabbi
Mahjouba Mhamda is one of the 1,460 women who received a 70 square metre plot of land. It was an arduous process.
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31/08/2018
SOKORU, Ethiopia, 29 August 2018 (UNFPA)* – Two years ago, 16-year-old Salia Shemsu waited to be married off.
Salia, now 18, tends to animals to provide for herself and her family. Just two years ago, Salia thought she would be a child bride. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw
She had just failed the national exam, barring her from pursuing the education she longed for. As the first-born girl in her family, Salia was now consigned to household chores – and even this, she knew, would not last long enough.
Salia’s parents did not have the financial means to support her. Like many young girls in Ethiopia, it was only a matter of time before she would need to leave her family for a husband.
Then an opportunity she never expected arrived.
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