• World food Programme Free Rice game. Every time you play rice is donated to feed the hungry.

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• International Design competition for Slave Trade memorial  launched

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International Day of Commemoration in Remembrance of The Victims of the Holocaust (27 January).

UNIC Launches it annual photo and video exhibit on the Holocasut with a special opening ceremony that includes an address from a Holocaust survivor

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Independent UN expert calls on Brazil to suspend São Paulo evictions Haiti: UN opens probe into cases of alleged child sexual exploitation UN rights chief speaks out against US failure to close Guantanamo detention facility

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The United Nations International Strategy for 

Disaster Reduction or ISDR

serves as the focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations system and regional organizations and activities in socio-economic and humanitarian fields (GA resolution 56/195).

The office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs OCHA   is responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. The aim is to assist people when they most need relief or protection. the Regional Office (ROLAC) which is located in Panama, overseas responses for the Caribbean Area.

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