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Syria: Latest school attack in Idlib 'an outrage'

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Syria: Latest school attack in Idlib 'an outrage' and 'one more scar on future' – UNICEF chief

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POISON SMOKE OVER MOSUL

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It is not clear that the retreating Islamic State (ISIS) troops from Qayyarah, a town just a few miles south of Mosul had time to read the fine print of the 1977 Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) or the Protocol of the 1977 Geneva Convention which prohibits the use of methods intended “to cause widespread, long-term, and severe damage to the natural environment.”  It wo

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US abstains for first time in annual UN vote on ending embargo against Cuba

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US abstains for first time in annual UN vote on ending embargo against Cuba

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Afghan women’s role in fighting violent extremism

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UN ‘Global Open Day’ emphasizes Afghan women’s role in fighting violent extremism

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UN Day: Changing of the Guard

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UN Day, 24 October, this year is marked by preparations for a changing of the guard. The ten years of Ban Ki-moon as Secretary-General will give way on one January 2017 to the new Secretary- General, Antonio Guterres, who was during the same ten-year period the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

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Free expression under worldwide assault

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Free expression under worldwide assault, UN human rights expert warns in new report

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Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

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UN anti-crime chief urges better use of Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

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Ending Marginalization and Exclusion

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17 October was set by the United Nations General Assembly in resolution 47/196 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.  October 17 was chosen as the anniversary of a 17 October 1987 meeting in front of the Trocadero in Paris near where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948.  The 1987 meeting was called as a reminder that the victims of extreme poverty, hunger and violence do not enjoy the rights that are set out in the Universal Declaration.

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Rural women's empowerment critical to UN Sustainable Development Agenda – Ban

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Rural women's empowerment critical to UN Sustainable Development Agenda – Ban

Thoeun harvests corn from her farm in Kampong Cham, Cambodia.

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Counter terrorism and address evolving nature of ISIL

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Political will needed to counter terrorism and address evolving nature of ISIL, Security Council told

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