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Skip to main navigation Skip to content “If I don’t help these children, who will?” WATCH: A midwife delivers babies after Boko Haram threats By Geoffrey Njoku 17 September 2015: A sharp increase in attacks by the armed group commonly known as Boko Haram has uprooted 500,000 children over the past five months, bringing the total number of children on the run in northeast Nigeria and neighbouring countries to 1.4 million, according to UNICEF. In a camp in north-eastern Nigeria for people displaced by violence, a teacher’s dedication helps children learn and to overcome the trauma they have experienced. MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, 17 September 2015 – The Dalori camp, just outside the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri, is teeming with an estimated 15,000 people who have been

10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Sustainable Development Goals 1. The Global Goals are the world’s ultimate to-do list for the next 15 years. The Global Goals are  17 goals  to make this planet a better place by 2030. This means ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and tackling climate change - sounds good, doesn’t it? 2. The Global Goals are the people’s goals.  The Global Goals were not compiled behind closed doors by a group of secret masterminds. They have been developed by all the 193 UN Member States, NGOs and people like you, all working together. 3. The Global Goals are – surprise – global.

HOW CAN WE CALL OURSELVES CIVILISED WHILE WOMEN ARE VICTIMS OF BARBARITY? The abhorrent sexual violence waged by groups such as Isis and Boko Haram must be countered by governments and at local levels  abhorrent sexual violence waged by groups such as Isis and Boko Haram must be countered by governments and at local levels   Women displaced as a result of Boko Haram attacks at a camp for internally displaced people in Yola, Adamawa State. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/REUTERS John Kerry   and Philip Hammond Sunday 30 August 201500.14 BSTLast modified on Monday 31 August 201508.15 BST In Syria and Iraq, Isis terrorists have turned kidnapping and the sale of women and girls into recruitment and fundraising tools. Thousands of women have been enslaved and raped. In Somalia and  Nigeria , terrorists have abducted scores of young women to force them into sham “marriages” characterised by degradation and abuse.