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- Two months since outbreak of violence in Myanmar, Rohingya refugee children still at acute riskSource: UN Children's Fund Country: Bangladesh, MyanmarThe needs of refugees and those of the communities hosting them are increasing at a much faster pace than our capacity to respond, UNICEF said on Monday.NEW YORK/GENEVA/DHAKA, 23 October 2017 – Nearly two ... Read more
- FAO seeks USD 21 million to improve living conditions of DRC’s crisis-affected populations
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Country: Democratic Republic of the CongoThe response will combine emergency support to small holder agriculture as well as small scale livelihoods starter kits to build resilience of IDPs, returnees and host ... Read more - EU announces €106 million support package for people affected by the crises in Sudan
Source: European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Country: South Sudan, SudanThe support package will assist people in Sudan affected by forced displacement, undernutrition, disease outbreaks and recurrent extreme climatic conditions. The European Commission has announced ... Read more - WHO promptly responds to Marburg Outbreak in Eastern UgandaSource: World Health Organization Country: UgandaSo far, there is one confirmed case and one suspected case. WHO is supporting community engagement in six high-risk counties through the District Social Mobilization and Village Health Teams.Following the confirmation of a case of ... Read more
- Asylum seekers in abysmal conditions on the Aegean islands – NGOs
Source: ActionAid, Danish Refugee Council, Amnesty International, Jesuit Refugee Service, Norwegian Refugee Council, CARE, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, International Rescue Committee, Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de I'Homme, SolidarityNow Country: Greece, World19 human rights and humanitarian aid organizations called ... Read more - Garden helps refugees put down roots in BritainRoom to Heal's community allotment turns nervous asylum-seekers into budding gardeners, and helps them recover from trauma of forced flight ... Read more
- Lebanon: Refugee Dreams of Becoming a Football Player (Dalal Mouawad, producer / Mazen Hashem, camera)0 ... Read more
- Syrian refugee polishes soccer skills in exileOdai still dreams of making professional league despite problems ... Read more
- As climate threats grow, Solomon Islands hunts “evergreen” solutions
Since flooding events in Papagu, Solomon Islands, the government has planned to merge climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction efforts in order to make development projects more resilient. Disaster preparedness has improved the living conditions for the Papagu residents ... Read more - Machine learning used to predict earthquakes in a lab settingResearchers have used machine learning techniques to successfully predict earthquakes by identifying a hidden signal leading up to an earthquake. The results can also be applied to landslides and avalanches, and shows great potential to be applied as an early ... Read more