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Well over 40 million people across West Africa face desperate food shortages in coming months, twice as many as before the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has stepped up efforts across West and Central Africa to protect millions of vulnerable people who are facing a renewed risk from the combined effects of conflict and the coronavirus pandemic. UNHCR

Children in Syria have been “robbed of their childhood” and forced to “endure numerous violations” in more than eight years of conflict, according to the latest report by the independent body set up by the UN’s Human Rights Council to investigate violations during the civil war in Syria. UNTV CH

World leaders and ministers were joined by partners from the private and development sectors at the first-ever Global Refugee Forum. A number of significant pledges were made, including a 2.5-billion-dollar commitment from the World Bank. UNHCR

Companies and brands have doubled down with support for refugees and those who host them, in major commitments announced at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva. UNHCR

Actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett called for governments to work toward an end to statelessness which afflicts people “from cradle to grave”, robbing them of jobs, educations and the right to a nationality. UNHCR

Azizbek Ashurov, a lawyer, whose work has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in becoming the first country in the world to end statelessness, has been selected as the 2019 winner of the UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award. UNHCR

As the people of north-west Syria face intensifying violence, tens of thousands of women and children continue to be kept in “inhumane conditions” in a remote camp on the other side of the country, UN-appointed investigators said today. UNTV CH

More than 500,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar in 2017 have received identification cards that the UN insisted today were critical to safeguarding their right to return home. UNTV CH

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed the decision made by the Government of Colombia granting nationality to children born in the country, to Venezuelan parents. This measure will benefit more than 24,000 children who are at risk of statelessness. UNIFEED