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UNICEF to Address the Increase in Unaccompanied Refugee Children
As of 2016, there are 300,000 unaccompanied child refugees and separated children globally, which is 66,000 more than in 2010 and a five-fold increase over the last seven years.
Finally, British Southern Cameroon’s Internet is Turned Back On
Local and international pressure forced President Paul Biya of Cameroon to order the reinstatement of the internet in BSC on April 20th after shutting it down for 93 days.
The Longest Internet Shutdown in African History
Since January 18 the regime has shut down the internet for British Southern Cameroon in a measure of collective punishment and a show of cowardice.
Wrecking Foreign Policy
Given his “transactional” personal psychology and lifetime of terrible business decisions, Trump’s defunding of State is also the obvious logical conclusion of decades of Republican policy.
Four Nation Famine Requires Global Attention
For all four countries, the culmination of war, poverty, mass displacement, inaccessibility to aid, drought, and crop failure is a formula for famine, with the ultimate result being severe food deprivation that threatens millions.
Philippines Threatens to Leave UN over Criticism of Drug Policy
Duterte should rethink the extrajudicial killings and allow for a system of law and order to rule his country and give even the worst of people the right to a fair trial
UN Peacekeepers Get Support in Angelina Jolie Speech
Challenges of UN peacekeeping and recent sexual assault scandals part of Angelina Jolie speech
A More Open and Transparent UN Leadership Selection
New reforms to the UN leadership selection process have improved transparency but left some wanting more
A More Democratic UN Secretary General Selection is Needed
As world powers wrestle with UN Secretary General selection, maybe it is time for the people to have a say