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MANILA, Philippines—An official of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC), an attached agency of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Thursday explained…
UNICEF calls for more international attention to ‘the forgotten crisis’ as about 25.6 million people face acute hunger.Dozens of civilians have been killed and thousands displaced…
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The global financial and economic crisis resulted in many nations cutting back on all sorts of public spending, and yet military spending continued to increase. Only…
UN rights chief calls for crackdown on arms trafficking that fuels ‘criminality’ and widens humanitarian crisis.At least 3,661 people have been killed in Haiti in the…
Israel killed at least 558 people, including 50 children and 94 women, in air strikes it conducted across Lebanon since September 23. At least 1,835 Lebanese…
As Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 41,000 people, nears one year, assaults in the occupied West Bank continue, with at least 703…