There are 50 million children and teenagers displaced from their homes due to conflicts and violence. Among those living as refugees, nearly half come from these two countries only.
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Marcos Pereira, of the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services, sat down with diplomat Larbi Moukharik to discuss agreements and the broadening of Brazil-Morocco ties early this week.
Refugees, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, xenophobia, and human rights violations. The future awaiting the next United Nations secretary general is a challenging one.
An international initiative of the World Council of Churches has volunteers working as human rights observers in the region. Ten Brazilians get selected each year, and travel and lodging are paid for.
The name of the next head of the diplomatic representation in Kuwait City was approved Wednesday by the Senate. Norton Rapesta will also concurrently serve as ambassador in Bahrain.
The Brazilian interim president says he plans on travelling to the region in case he is confirmed as president following the vote on Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment trial.
A multilateral initiative will provide USD 340 million to support refugees and their host communities in both countries.
The Trade Facilitation Agreement will enter into force when two thirds of the World Trade Organization member countries have formally accepted it. Over 80% of those two thirds have been reached.
The Council of Arab Ambassadors in Brasília offered a dinner in honor to the secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) Marcos Galvão. Arab Chamber representatives attended the event.
According to the International Trade Center, the Maroc Export agency is the continent’s busiest.
A United Nations agency has said that the number of people who rely on assistance in the territory soared from 80,000 in the year 2000 to 930,000 today.
Bernardo de Azevedo Brito launched a revised and expanded edition of his work to include the rise of the Islamic State and its effects on the country.
The money from the emergency fund was disbursed for the aid of people that left the city of Fallujah after conflicts.
On World Refugee Day, an arm of the United Nations released a report on people who left their homes fleeing conflict. Syria is the biggest refugee source country and Turkey is the primary destination.
