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As the United Nations today marks the World Refugee Day, the United Nations Childre's Fund (UNICEF) warned there are now more children forcibly displaced by conflict – an estimated 30 million – than at any other time since the Second World War. UNICEF

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi travelled overnight to Niger with more than 100 refugees, mostly women and children, as they were evacuated out of Libya, where they had been held in detention. A total of 121 refugees, many from Eritrea, arrived in Niamey, from where they will be resettled to other host countries under a new international program designed to urgently protect the most vulnerable refugees in Libya. News coverage from detention center, airport and flight to Niamey. UNHCR

After yesterdays’ announcement of the United States to pull out from the UN Human Rights Council, the current President of the Council today defended the work of the Geneva-based United Nations body. UNTV CH

Wars, other violence and persecution drove worldwide forced displacement to a new high in 2017 for the fifth year in a row, according to United Nations refugee agency’s (UNHCR) annual Global Trends report, released today. UNHCR

Marking the International day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, said “the response must be very holistic when it comes to the children born of rape,” and “must address both the mother and the child.” UNIFEED

The first Taikonaut of China Yangli Wei said today that his country is “committed to advocate for international cooperation in space technology to provide more benefit for humankind.” UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said Israel's illegal settlement activity “erodes remaining hopes for peace” adding that actions of Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza “put at risk not only the lives of Israelis and Palestinians alike, but also efforts to ensure a liveable future for people in Gaza.” UNIFEED

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday that countries have every right to protect their borders but separating migrant children from their parents at the US border is not in children’s best interest, underlining that “immigration enforcement and protecting the right of children are not a zero-sum game.” UNTV CH

During his two-day visit to Libya, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi held a solemn moment of silence on Monday on the Libyan coast to remember the thousands of women, men and children who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in search of safety and a better life. UNHCR

Pascaline Ouedraogo, a 26-years old Sargent in Burkina Faso’s army, was one of United Nations peacekeepers who successfully repealed a complex attack on United Nations base in Timbuktu, Mali on 14 April this year. MINUSMA