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Human Rights

Growing Refugee Crisis resulting in Trafficking and Slavery

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi believes that the refugee crisis has exacerbated human trafficking and modern ...

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Sustainable Development

265 Million Children are working around the World this Universal Children's Week 2017

The International Labour Organisation states in its latest World Report on Child Labour (2013) that there are around 265 million working children in the world which is almo...

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Human Rights

Displacement follows terror: Rights of millions concerns our world.

"They forced us onto trucks like animals".  A 55-page report titled thus has shook the world. The document, chronicles the atrocities committed by Cameroonian...

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Hollywood

Kristin Davis Writes About What Visiting Refugee Camps Has Taught Her

Kristin Davis has written a post on The Huffington Post about what travelling to refugee camps with the UNHCR has taught her. “Every trip I have made to visit UNHCR r...

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Hollywood

Divergent's Theo James Visits Refugee Camps In Greece

This week actor Theo James travelled to Greece on his first visit with UNHCR ahead of World Refugee Day. Theo has a very personal story that connects him to the refugee sit...

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Festivals

World’s First VR Film Festival Takes You To A Real War Zone

If you’re going to make the first-ever virtual-reality movie filmed inside a war zone, you might as well do it in the most dangerous city on the planet. So that&rsquo...

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Sustainable Development

Malala Opens School For Girl Refugees

Human Rights Activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has marked her 18th birthday with a renewed commitment to refugees and education by inaugurating a school for more...

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Sustainable Development

After Genital Cutting in Somalia, a Woman Chooses Reconstructive Surgery in America

Women who went through female genital cutting before coming to America face unique challenges. It is as if we were designed to live only in the society of our origin; we do...

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Sustainable Development

UN teams with ‘Revolution’ TV show to highlight real challenges of a world without power

The fictional concept at the heart of the television series ‘Revolution’ – which picks up 15 years after the start of a worldwide blackout – is the ...

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