"REFUGEES"

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN Special Envoy for education Gordon Brown appealed for urgent new funding for lost generations of over 30 million displaced and refugee young people. UNIFEED

The UN refugee Agency (UNHCR) said it took part last week in one of the largest and most complex humanitarian missions carried out in the eight years of the Syrian conflict. UNHCR

Offering a range of subjects from mathematics to Greek, arts, science and crafts, KEDU, an informal school on Kos teaches displaced children aged between seven and 18 years old. Almost 400 youngsters, who might otherwise have no education, have passed through its doors since they opened last April, supported by the UN refugee agency. UNHCR

In Beirut, a very special bus roams the city, bringing joy and education to children working on the streets. UNHCR

Efforts to advance two-state formula untenable amid violence, Secretary-General tells Palestinian rights committee, warning ‘there is no plan B’ at 394th meeting.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The biggest UN humanitarian convoy yet to operate inside Syria has successfully distributed aid to 40,000 desperate people in a hard-to-access desert camp at Rukban, near the country’s southern border with Jordan, the organization announced on Friday. UNTV CH

Cross-border movements of displaced communities from South Sudan’s Yei area are raising concerns about the risk of the Ebola virus being transported across the border into South Sudan. Currently living in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some displaced people often crisscross the porous border in search of food from the homes they fled in Yei due to unrest. UNMISS

United Nations aid agencies with their national and international humanitarian partners launched today the 2019 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. The appeal seeks to raise US$ 920 million to meet the massive needs of more than 900,000 refugees from Myanmar and over 330,000 vulnerable Bangladesh's host communities. UNTV CH