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A traditional Dogon village in central Mali.

4 June 2019: A child playing on the roof of El Carmen school in Barrio Union, Petare, in the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. It is too dangerous to play outside and children head straight home as soon as they leave school. Even a basketball hoop right outside the school was removed to discourage children from hanging out outdoors.

Protesters take to streets in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

Only 6 per cent of children in Africa live in areas where air pollution is reliably measured at ground-level, leaving half a billion children across the continent living in areas with no reliable means of measuring air quality, according to a new UNICEF report released on World Environment Day.

People in the Yememi port city of Hudaydah have been provided with vouchers by the World Food Programme which they can exchange for food.

School in the district of Namacurra, in Zambézia province, Mozambique.

“Tens of thousands of children in northwest Syria are at imminent risk of injury, death and displacement because of a significant escalation in fighting. Violence has intensified over the past few days, especially in villages in northern Hama and southern Idleb.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres receives the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen, Germany on 30 May 2019.

“We need to tax pollution, not people”, and “end subsidies for fossil fuels,” Secretary-General António Guterres told the World Summit of the R20 Coalition on Tuesday, a UN-supported environmental organization, founded by former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen their cooperation in response to the humanitarian needs of children, adolescents, mothers and pregnant women in Venezuela on May 28, 2019.