Melissa Fleming
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 26/02/2019
"2 million children are out of school, & 2,000 schools have been directly affected by the conflict: damaged, destroyed, converted to shelter for the displaced or occupied by armed groups. Half of the teachers in Yemen have not been paid in over two years." - @antonioguterres https://t.co/pbb8vlrAJ7
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 26/02/2019
"One credible report put the number of children under 5 who have died of starvation at more than 80,000." #yemenchildren
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 26/02/2019
"Children did not start the war in Yemen, but they are paying the highest price. Some 360,000 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, fighting for their lives every day." - @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres to High-Level Pledging Conference for #Yemen https://t.co/dLD1fWLEAI
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 26/02/2019
The conflict in #Yemen is devastating the country. Its civilians face air strikes, armed clashes, shelling, hunger, displacement & disease. The @UN is appealing for peace, access and major pledges of aid for the 80% of the population in dire need. https://t.co/gIuDhL6OCM
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 25/02/2019
Berivan and her mother have lost the other members of their family. But at a new women’s commune near Qamishli, in north-eastern Syria, they have had a chance to start over. https://t.co/ZQrqMqFnh3
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 25/02/2019
“The girl cried, but she had no tears.” Stirring story of desperate people who are fleeing and the few with huge hearts who are helping them. https://t.co/cIs0mnKaGi
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 23/02/2019
Inspiring story. Instead of running from war in search of safety, he now runs marathons. https://t.co/CNMOw7Gm2F
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 20/02/2019
The total number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela now stands at close to 3.4 million people - in need of sympathy and help. https://t.co/AVIO2tpgE1
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 20/02/2019
It is called “psychic numbing”, but there are ways to overcome it! https://t.co/9Ru9pyrvfS
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 19/02/2019
New data shows that despite record levels of worldwide forced displacement, only 4.7 per cent of global refugee resettlement needs were met in 2018: https://t.co/c1dliDCfGy via @refugees
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