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10 October Oct 2016 1507 10 October 2016 Doctors ready to re-enter east Aleppo if given safe passage
Several doctors who worked in East Aleppo before the siege, declared to be ready to re-enter that part of the city if given safe passage. At the moment there are only 35 doctors left in East Aleppo. Only 7 of them can perform surgical operations
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7 October Oct 2016 1043 07 October 2016 Poverty is not the engine of violent extremism
According to a World Bank study, the socio-economic conditions, poverty or any other sort of deprivations aren’t among the reasons due to which people join the extremist groups
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6 October Oct 2016 0955 06 October 2016 Rich nations leadership wanted. Only 10 countries left to take 56% of global refugees
Wealthy countries have shown a complete absence of leadership and responsibility, leaving just 10 countries, which account for less than 2.5 percent of world GDP, to take in 56 percent of the world’s refugees, said Amnesty International in a comprehensive assessment of the global refugee crisis.
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5 October Oct 2016 1226 05 October 2016 Nearly 385 million children living in extreme poverty
Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World Bank Group and UNICEF.
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4 October Oct 2016 1054 04 October 2016 Africa: Why western economists get it wrong
Economists have moved away from studying poor countries on their own terms.They would explain Tanzania’s lack of development as stemming from its inability to be more like Sweden.
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30 September Sep 2016 0736 30 September 2016 Achieving the SDGs: the role of Impact Investment
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) launches an initiative to promote the key role investors can play in achieving the SDGs goals
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29 September Sep 2016 0830 29 September 2016 World Vision and ChildPact released new tool measuring government efforts to protect children
The Child Protection Index measures government efforts to protect girls and boys. It is a tool to prevent and end violence, child trafficking, child labour, discrimination and other violations of a child’s rights.
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26 September Sep 2016 0730 26 September 2016 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? This is how I honour my pledge
Vanda, an Italian Youth Ambassador for The ONE Campaign, shares her achievements and hopes on the anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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22 September Sep 2016 1459 22 September 2016 Most people ignore the progress in the global poverty fight
According to the "Towards 2030 without poverty" report, 87% of people around the world believes that global poverty has either stayed the same or gotten worse over the past 20 years, when the exact opposite is true – it has more than halved.
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21 September Sep 2016 1210 21 September 2016 Refugee summit, ONE Campaign: This is a great first step...but just a first step
The ONE Campaign reacted to the Leaders' Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis on Tuesday and underlined that even if every commitment made this week is delivered, there will still be 2.7 million refugee children out of school.
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20 September Sep 2016 1630 20 September 2016 Responding to the migration emergency
As global leaders gather at the New York summits to improve protection of migrants and refugees, they may find valuable lessons from the guidance produced by the Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC) Initiative and the process that led to their development
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19 September Sep 2016 1001 19 September 2016 Europe spent more aid within its own borders than overseas
ONE launches its Data Report 2016, which every year tracks official development assistance (ODA) flows and trends for the world’s major donors.
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15 September Sep 2016 1657 15 September 2016 The EU set to have its peace corps
The Commission is working to offer young people a chance to put solidarity in practice with the creation of the European Solidarity Corps. Young people across the EU will be able to volunteer their help where it is needed most, to respond to crisis situations. President Junker:“ I want this European Solidarity Corps up and running as soon as possible».
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15 September Sep 2016 1014 15 September 2016 The crisis in refugee education
In the report "Missing Out: Refugee Education in Crisis" the UN Refugee Agency says more than half of the 6 million school-age children under its mandate have no school to go to.
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14 September Sep 2016 1629 14 September 2016 65.3 million of displaced people would make up the world’s 21st largest country
Save The Children new analysis of forcibly displaced finds world's fastest-growing population also among the youngest, and nearly last in school attendance.
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12 September Sep 2016 1502 12 September 2016 Brexit, poorest developing countries could lose €385 million per year
Developing countries risk losing up to €385 million (£323 million; $430 million) if their current access to the UK market is not maintained following Brexit, a new series of essays published by the Overseas Development Institute and the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex reveals.
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8 September Sep 2016 1156 08 September 2016 Oxfam:«Each day 28 unaccompanied children fall out of Italy’s weak reception system»
With latest UNICEF figures showing ever more children globally are uprooted, the number of unaccompanied refugee and migrant children arriving to Europe through Italy has doubled this year and Europe is failing to properly support them, a new Oxfam report reveals.
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8 September Sep 2016 1100 08 September 2016 The truth about the Syrian refugee crisis
Screened at the Venice film festival 2016, ‘The War Show’ is a documentary on the Syrian conflict told from the point of view of a former radio DJ Obaidah Zytoon and her friends
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7 September Sep 2016 1126 07 September 2016 50% of world's refugees are children
A new Unicef report published on Wednesday found that nearly 50 million children have been uprooted worldwide and 28 million have been forcibly displaced by conflict and violence within and across borders. They are the most likely to be exposed to violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking