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UN migration agency: young Rohingya girls, largest group of trafficking victims in camps
16 October 2018UN News Centre
More than a year into the crisis in Cox's Bazar, the number of Rohingya refugees has reached nearly one million, with young girls in Bangladesh refugee camps sold into forced labour accounting for the largest group of trafficking victims, reported the UN Migration Agency (IOM) on Tuesday.
'Concerted effort' must be made to help 600 million-plus adolescent girls realize full potential: UN chief
There are "multiple barriers" including "systemic discrimination" bias and lack of training, which are keeping the largest generation of girls in human history from reaching their full potential, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement on Thursday, marking International Day of the Girl Child.
Child sexual abuse and exploitation: UN event sheds light on the unthinkable
3 October 2018UN News Centre
Governments can and must do more to end the daily sexual abuse and exploitation of girls and boys worldwide, an event at UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday highlighted, including through a newly launched tool designed to help countries track progress and gaps.
Teenage girl's death sentence spotlights Sudan's failure to tackle forced marriage, gender-based violence - UN rights office
18 May 2018UN News Centre
The case of Noura Hussein Hammad Daoud, a Sudanese teenager convicted of fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry, after he had allegedly raped her, highlights the country's failure to tackle the tragedy of early and forced marriage, marital rape and other discrimination and violence against women and girls, the United Nations human rights office said.
UN chief condemns abduction of school girls in north-east Nigeria, calls for their immediate release
28 February 2018UN News Centre
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has denounced the abduction of more than one hundred school girls by suspected Boko Haram insurgents during an attack on an educational institution in north-eastern Nigeria and called for their safe return to their families.
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