The programme to resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees in the UK was successfully expanded at speed in order to reach an interim target to resettle 1,000 people by Christmas 2015, according to the National Audit Office, but the programme team will need to resettle more people each quarter than they have done so far in order to meet the overall target to resettle 20,000 people by May 2020.

International Development Committee chair Stephen Twigg spoke to Agnes Chambre ahead of his debate on the missing Chibok school girls.

Welsh Lib Dem Leader Mark Williams MP believes it is time the West addressed human rights abuses in Iran and that the UK must 'stand with the Iranian regime's victims in their quest for justice'.

Former international development minister Lord Foulkes of Cumnock questions why he has been met by a "wall of silence" as he seeks answers about why St Helena's airport is not operational.

Thames Water’s Chief Executive Martin Baggs reflects on the work the organisation has done with charity WaterAid, explaining how engagement and sustainability is as important as fundraising.

Years of violence by Boko Haram in Africa’s Lake Chad basin have led to a worsening humanitarian crisis that has displaced 1.4 million children and left at least one million still trapped in hard-to-reach areas, Unicef said in a report released today.

Labour MP Jamie Reed writes that Jeremy Corbyn's refusal to say he would authorise military action if a Nato ally was invaded by Russia shows he is unfit to be his party's leader. 

JUBA/NAIROBI, 19 August 2016 – Since the beginning of this year more than 650 children have been recruited into armed groups in South Sudan, UNICEF said today. 

Dods Monitoring’s Ben Rayner reports on a Dods poll showing 69% of Labour MPs believe Brexit will be detrimental to the environment, compared with 55% of Conservatives who think there will be no impact.

Save the Children says schools are being destroyed in Aleppo and children are being caught up in the violent struggle.

Former European Special Representative in Bosnia & Herzegovina Lord Ashdown writes that a three hour ceasefire in Aleppo is not sufficient humanitarian access and calls on the RAF to consider airdrops to besieged areas 'if adequate humanitarian corridors are not established'.

On the second anniversary of the declaration of Ebola as a global health emergency, WaterAid in Liberia and Sierra Leone will join with other agencies and civil-society organisations to call on governments to deliver on promises to strengthen healthcare systems, including through provision of adequate water, sanitation and hygiene.

With the country now focused on disentangling itself from the EU, Political Consultant Arpinder Baryana sets out the new landscape in foreign affairs, development and defence policy.

Responding to the Home Affairs Committee report on the migration crisis, Lily Caprani, Deputy Executive Director, Unicef UK said: 

Unicef Ambassador Ewan McGregor travelled to northern Iraq last week to see how the conflicts sweeping Iraq and Syria are devastating the lives of children. Tens of thousands of children in Iraq and Syria have been killed, injured, separated from their parents, forced into work, tortured or recruited into fighting.

The Energy Saving Trust publishes its vision for transforming the UK energy system post-Brexit and calls for cross-party support to create jobs, growth and better health for households.

The new international development secretary Priti Patel is being asked what steps are being taken for the 200 NHS workers and academics, who risked their lives in combating the deadly Ebola virus disease, to receive the more than £4,000 bonus that was paid to colleagues working for Public Health England (PHE). 

Statement attributable to Hanaa Singer, Unicef representative in Syria, on the killings of children in northern Syria 

Britons should worry about this week's ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) on China’s maritime claims, says Lord West, 'because it reveals to us the type of superpower China is becoming.'

Nearly a quarter of a million children are severely malnourished in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, and face a high risk of death, UNICEF said today, as the scale of the humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram emergency continues to unfold.  

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants' Manj Kalar analyses what Brexit could mean for the public sector in financial terms.

5 July 2016- The latest attack on Khan Eishieh Refugee Camp, home to Palestinian refugees and internally displaced Syrians, is the latest example in the Syria conflict of the inhumane disregard for life, particularly that of children and infrastructure on which they depend.

The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom hosted a conference in parliament on UK policy toward Iran attended by MPs and peers.

Prof Alison Harcourt from the University of Exeter writes about the processes which now follow the EU referendum result.