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  1. Somali-born champion of refugee education wins top UNHCR award

    ... Mire, a former refugee championing education for displaced children and youth, is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s Global Laureate. ... around 56 per cent  according to 2020 figures , are children. At that point there were over 60,000 students enrolled up to ...

    franck1 - 1 Dec 2023

  2. Call to improve jobs for youth in Africa

    ... in Africa. Data shows that nearly a quarter of the children enrolled at the primary level do not complete primary education while ...

    franck1 - 29 Nov 2023

  3. Using education to develop a new social contract for Africa

    ... successfully adopted, have increased the likelihood of children’s enrolling in school by 30 per cent, when household income ... research in Ghana, Mozambique and Nigeria has shown that children whose travel time to school is more than 30 minutes have poorer ...

    franck1 - 29 Nov 2023

  4. How the UN SDG Summit aims to transform the world

    ... stands outside a child-friendly space established to help children cope with their trauma after the June 2022 earthquake in Afghanistan. ... and learning losses mean that by 2030, some 84 million children will be out of school, and 300 million children or young people who ...

    web.ar - 20 Sep 2023

  5. Malala Yousafzai, Amina Mohammed Advocate for girl-Child Education in Nigeria

    ... With one in five out-of-school children in the world living in Nigeria, the Pakistani Nobel Laureate and ... from staggering statistics: approximately 10.5 million children between ages 5 and 14  are currently out of school, and only 61 per ...

    sidney - 24 Aug 2023

  6. UN pledges to ‘remain engaged and committed’ amid attempted coup in Niger

    ... guidance from the UN on how to feed under-nourished children. If you can't read now, just listen to the audio version:  ... in Niger, where 4.3 million people, mainly women and children, were already dependent on aid prior to the power grab.   Some ...

    sidney - 24 Aug 2023

  7. Africa’s food ‘transformation’ impossible without game changing solutions: FAO

    ... was simply putting nutritious food out of reach, impacting children, women and those below the poverty line most of all. “Together, ...

    sidney - 24 Aug 2023

  8. How the UN is assisting Mauritius to secure its food systems

    ... for over 30 years, alongside her husband and many of her children. Artisanal fishing is considered a sustainable way of fishing as it ...

    sidney - 24 Aug 2023

  9. Tunisia: UN experts urge swift action to uphold migrants’ rights

    ... violations they might face upon return. Women and children deported The experts wrote to the Tunisian Government in March ... border where many, including pregnant women and children, have already been deported,” the UN experts said. They stressed ...

    franck1 - 31 Jul 2023

  10. Activists encouraged to apply for UN SDG Action Awards

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    sidney - 31 Jul 2023