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He made that point as he sent to the Security Council a summary of a 185-page report from the UN Board of Inquiry that he set up on 1 August last year, into a number of incidents in northwest Syria involving facilities on the deconfliction list and UN-supported facilities.  Places…

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By Edith M. LedererThe Associated PressMon., April 6, 2020timer4 min. readTANZANIA, Tanzania - A U.N. investigation found it “highly probable” that the Syrian government or its allies were responsible for attacks on four civilian facilities in the last opposition stronghold in the northwest in 2019 — a school, a health…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. investigation found it “highly probable” that the Syrian government or its allies were responsible for attacks on four civilian facilities in the last opposition stronghold in the northwest in 2019 — a school, a health care center, a hospital and a child care facility.The…

The pandemic is dictating Greek asylum policy. The coronavirus forced Turkish President Erdogan to cease blackmail attempts at the border with Greece — but it has afforded Athens the opportunity to push through plans. In retrospect, it seems that residents of Greece's eastern border regions were justifiably skeptical about the…

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Munir Ahmed,  Noelle Whitestone,  Jennifer L. Patnaik,  Mohammad Awlad Hossain,  Lutful Husain,  Mohammed Alauddin,  Mushfiqur Rahaman,  David Hunter Cherwek,  Nathan Congdon,  Danny Haddad x Published: March 31, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003096 Abstract Background There is a growing awareness that addressing chronic as well as acute…

Migrant women subjected to domestic abuse are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus crisis due to being blocked from entering shelters and deterred from accessing healthcare, frontline service providers warned. Domestic abuse services and human rights organisations urged the Home Secretary to introduce emergency measures to help migrant women forced to…

CAIRO - The lives of Syrian refugees across the Middle East have become increasingly difficult as families are forced to address the potential spread of coronavirus to overcrowded camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Idlib and Turkey. Abou Mohammed, who lives in a tent camp in the rebel-controlled northern Syrian enclave of…

Source: hikrcm/Shutterstock Social distancing, washing our hands with soap for 20 seconds, and minimizing how often we touch our faces are all cornerstones of the global strategy to slow the spread of the coronavirus. They’re great preventive methods and the evidence base for their effectiveness is rapidly growing, as we…

The novel coronavirus has swept through developed countries like China, Italy, South Korea, Spain and the United States, killing thousands and disrupting their economies, but the world has yet to see mass outbreaks among the most vulnerable populations.These places include camps for refugees and internally displaced people in Iraq and…