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Development workers hand over relief aid to a woman amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A people-centred focus on the well-being of those in developing countries, such as Burkina Faso, must be applied in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition.

An 11-year-old boy finds relief from the summer heat by playing in a fountain in a historic part of the city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund welcomed the latest relocations of 49 unaccompanied asylum-seeking and migrant children from Greece to Portugal and Finland on July 08, 2020.

A man prepares tea in a coffee shop in Kuwait.

A UNICEF shipment of 3.7 cubic metres of vital health supplies lands in Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on a flight organised by the European Union (EU) to transport vital humanitarian supplies and other supplies to support the COVID-19 response.

A widow holds her grandson in a displaced persons camp in northern Idleb Governorate, Syria.

The war on children in Syria has been one of the most brutal in recent history. Nearly 6 million Syrian children were born since the crisis began. They know nothing but war and displacement. On average, a child in Syria has been killed every 10 hours due to violence, and more than 2.5 million children have been uprooted and forced to flee to neighbouring countries in search of safety.

A disabled refugee girl from Syria in a wheelchair is helped by her sister as she and her other siblings head to school in Adana, Turkey.