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Quality education for Afghan orphans

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Islamic Relief

This month, Islamic Relief has kick-started the second phase of work to develop quality education for poor and orphaned children in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Since Islamic Relief began its work with Khoog Khoor school for orphans in January 2012, the school has established itself as one of the top schools in the city. Khoog Khoor currently serves over 350 students – 50 of whom come from remote, conflict-affected areas and so live at the school.

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Surge in women jailed for ‘moral crimes’

(Kabul) – The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said today. Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact.

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Kasaï-Oriental : plus de 20 enfants sont morts de malaria et de malnutrition à Kabinda

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Radio Okapi

Plus de vingt décès dus à la malaria et à la malnutrition ont été enregistrés chez les enfants au cours de sept derniers jours à Kabinda à 153 km de Mbuji-Mayi (Kasaï-Oriental). C’est ce qu’a révélé, mardi 21 mai, le docteur Oscar Kashala, médecin responsable du service de pédiatrie de l’hôpital général de référence de Kabinda.

Au cours d’un entretien avec la presse, il a affirmé que plus de 72 % d’enfants de Kabinba sont hospitalisés dans ce centre hospitalier à cause de la malaria. 28 % souffrent de malnutrition.

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European Union announces a €13.5 million grant to improve education and nutrition for Zimbabwe’s children

Harare, 21 May, 2013: The European Union has today announced a €13 million (US$17 million) grant to the second phase of the Education Transition Fund and an additional €500,000 (USD 640,000) from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) to nutrition activities in the country.

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Syrian refugee children in Iraq – protecting childhood where possible

21/05/2013 – It’s raining cats and dogs and mud sticks to the soles of our shoes as soon as we start walking through Domiz camp. Domiz is currently one of two camps for refugees from Syria in the Kurdish part of Iraq. It hosts about 40,000 people.

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UNRWA students in Syria continue education despite violence

In the midst of conflict, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is doing its best to support the continued education of students in Syria.

Students in the country have faced mounting obstacles in pursuing education, with thousands fleeing the violence and others unable to access their schools since the beginning of the three-year-old conflict.

As the end of the year approaches, many of them are worried about the upcoming exams, but are determined to take them and continue with their schooling.

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Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013 Kicks Off In Brazil

BRASILIA – Close to 300 delegates from 37 countries are converging today on Costa do Sauípe, Brazil, to exchange experiences and debate options to strengthen school feeding programmes for millions of children worldwide at the Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013.

Ministers from across Africa, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Liberia and Sudan, are attending the event which starts today and concludes on Friday 24 May, along with senior government figures from other countries including Costa Rica, Haiti, Iraq and Tajikistan.

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Nutrition Survey Final Report - Maban Refugee Camps, South Sudan, February/March 2013

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Nutrition situation in South Sudan has remained precarious over the years owing to chronic food insecurity. The populations displaced from South Kordofan and Blue Nile states from 2011 owing to conflict, were installed into camps in the Maban county and high levels of malnutrition among the children was described as a humanitarian crisis. A survey conducted by Médecins sans Frontières -Belgium (MSF-B) in Batil camps subsequently in August 2012, revealed Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate of 39.8%.

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WFP Donates Equipment Worth 7.4 Million Rupees To KP Health Department

Peshawar – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today handed over medical and information technology equipment worth over 7.4 million rupees to the Health Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The donation is designed to boost the quality of nutrition and healthcare services provided in seven key Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts, and includes weighing scales, delivery tables, oxygen cylinders and emergency lights, as well as computers and printers.

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Health Department 2012 Annual Report

UNRWA health programme hard hit in Syria but the UN agency's work is having an impact

Today, during the World Health Organization’s sixty sixth’s Annual World Health Summit, UNRWA released its Health Department 2012 Annual Report. The publication reflects on the operational challenges, the Agency has faced with rolling out an ongoing health reform and managing regular services during times of conflict.

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Lebanon: UN Inter-Agency Response for Syrian Refugees, May 10 - 17 2013

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK:

 Over 60,000 refugess received clothes vouchers, blankets, quilts, kitchen sets, matresses, recreation kits for children and other household items;

 Some 14,000 food vouchers were distributed;

 Over 8,000 refugees received hygiene kits and 3,000 received baby kits;

 More than 5,700 students were supported with educational, psychosocial and recreational activities in public schools or in community centers across Lebanon;

 Over 3,700 patients benefited from primary health care services;

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European report on development 2013 - Post-2015: global action for an inclusive and sustainable future. Full Report

Introduction

In a commendable effort to increase accountability, the international community set itself a target date of 2015 to achieve the key objectives of the historic United Nations Millennium Declaration, on which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are based.

This widely recognised deadline has inevitably attracted considerable debate. As it approaches, there has been much research on whether the targets as set out in the MDGs will be met, along with a parallel discussion on what might succeed them.

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Mali + 8 others
Sahel Humanitarian Dashboard (May 2013)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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‘Mahasen’ cost relatively few lives, but considerable damage

24 hours after ‘Mahasen’ passed it can been seen that even though the worst has been avoided in the number of victims, the impact of the tropical storm could have long-term effects on the living conditions of the people. In Patharghata, the intervention area of Terre des hommes, the teams immediately got to work.

Last Thursday 16th May, at 9.30 a.m., ‘Mahasen’ swept through Bangladesh, killing ten people according to the first reports, injuring hundreds and causing widespread damage throughout the Gulf of Bengal.

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UNICEF concerned about reports of children trapped in Qusayr [EN/AR]

DAMASCUS/AMMAN/GENEVA, 21 May 2013 – UNICEF is extremely concerned about the safety of civilians in the embattled city of Qusayr in Syria and fears that thousands of children and women could be trapped there by fighting.

Heavy clashes have been reported in Qusayr, a city near the Lebanese border, with a population of some 30,000. Between 12,000 and 20,000 people, many of them children, are thought to still be inside the city.

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Medical care in the line of fire

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ICRC, MSF

Armed men in hospitals, harassing patients; health facilities used to identify and apprehend enemies; clinics abandoned and hospitals destroyed. Overwhelmed emergency services, where medical staff are in terror of reprisals for having provided care for a patient; ambulances blocked from accessing the wounded, or held up for hours at checkpoints; entrenched animosities and divisions denying certain groups of people the medical assistance they need.

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FSNAU Nutrition Update March - April 2013

OVERVIEW

The FSNAU integrated nutrition situation analysis in January 2013 had indicated that the emergency levels of malnutrition (GAM 15-30 percent) seen in Bakool Pastoral, Juba riverine, Southern Gedo and Mataban district since Gu 2012 will be sustained. An improvement in other livelihoods from emergency levels (GAM 15-30 percent) levels to crisis levels (GAM 10-14.9 percent) was expected.

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République centrafricaine - Revue de Presse Hebdomadaire du 13 au 20 mai 2013

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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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DR Congo UNICEF Monthly Situation Report 16 April- 20 May 2013

Highlights

  • United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit DRC with stops in Kinshasa and Goma May 22-23, accompanied by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UN Under-Secretary-General & UNFPA Executive Director, Jordan Ryan, Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), Herve Ladsous, Head of UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for Africa.