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Author: Kristin Taylor

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Photo of the Week: South Sudan – one year of conflict

Photo of the Week: South Sudan – one year of conflict

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By Kristin Taylor

15 December 2014 marks a tragic anniversary for South Sudan: one year since the eruption of violence that has left nearly 750,000 children internally displaced and forced more than 320,000 to seek refuge abroad. Rates of malnutrition in children have more than doubled as a result of the conflict. In this photograph taken by Kate Holt in… Read more →←
Photo of the Week: Threatened at every turn

Photo of the Week: Threatened at every turn

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By Kristin Taylor

Facing insecurity, displacement, malnutrition, floods – children in South Sudan are threatened at every turn. A girl holds her baby sister while waiting to collect food rations, in the town of Mingkaman. They, along with far too many of their peers, were uprooted by resurgent conflict that erupted in South Sudan in mid-December 2013.… Read more →←
Photo of the Week: “There’s no safe place”

Photo of the Week: “There’s no safe place”

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By Kristin Taylor

In the latest Photo of the Week, 3-year-old Mohammed Fakhri Naim sits on a cot in a Gaza hospital. With his head wrapped in gauze bandage, he recovers from wounds he sustained during missile fire on a school where he and his family had taken shelter. “There’s no safe place,” said his father. “I left my home, and it was bombed. I… Read more →←
Syrian refugee children in an informal tented settlement, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
What you missed this week

What you missed this week

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By Kristin Taylor

From one refugee to another: Young Somalis living in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp have transformed their own suffering into a form of encouragement for others, sending handwritten letters to Syrian refugee children.  “We are also like you. We know life is not easy,” says one letter. The Syrian children are now writing responses to… Read more →←
Displaced boys in South Sudan learn about the dangers of landmines and other unexploded ordnance.
What you missed this week

What you missed this week

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By Kristin Taylor

Leaving death and injury in their wake, landmines remain a hidden threat to children and other civilians long after the conflicts in which they were laid have ended. To commemorate the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action on 4 April, the United Nations Mine Action Service partnered with digital marketing… Read more →←

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