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UN Report Fails to Recognize Major Child Abductions in Parts of Nigeria

• August 1, 2022

LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations verified the abduction of 4,278 children in 21 countries last year in its recent annual report on children and armed conflict, but it failed to acknowledge widespread kidnappings throughout northwest and north-central Nigeria that were recorded by one of its own agencies in 2021. Almost a quarter of …

Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Terrorism

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What to Expect at the UN’s First Migration and Refugee Summit Meeting

Dulcie Leimbach

• September 17, 2016

How do you solve the refugee and migrant crisis? At the United Nations, which has by default inherited the pressing problem of the biggest movement of people from their homes since the end of World War II, you hold meetings, conferences, panel discussions, produce “outcome documents,” give speeches, promise to do more and weep, …

Migration, Refugees

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Her Job? To Welcome Boat Migrants Landing at Sicily’s Ports

Yermi Brenner

• May 20, 2014

SICILY, Italy — Fabiana Giuliani is a legal associate for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees, but in the last few months she has spent most of her time in ports. Based on the southern island of Sicily, Giuliani, a 31-year-old Italian native who has been working for the UN refugee agency for …

Africa, Human Trafficking, Libya, Migration

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Children Trapped in Syria Suffering From the War

Lorraine Boissoneault

• May 8, 2013

As the Syrian government increasingly resorts to using heavy armaments and long-distance aircraft — and possibly chemical weapons — to attack the opposition movement and other enemies, the risk of children being killed or maimed in the fighting has risen sharply, says the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for …

Human Rights, Middle East, Refugees, Security Council

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The Business and Politics of Good Samaritans

Thomas G. Weiss

• March 30, 2013

“Humanitarian” and “business” are juxtaposed in the title of my new book, “Humanitarian Business,” for two reasons: provocation and accuracy. It jars those who idealize the humanitarian enterprise because the adjective has uncontested positive connotations while the noun is associated with wheeling and dealing and thus at odds with the self-image of true believers. …