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Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, addresses the Security Council on the situation in Mali.

Pierre Krähenbühl, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, speaks at the launch of the fundraising campaign.

Newly appointed President of Liberia, George Weah (centre left), walks with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (centre right) during the inauguration ceremony in Monrovia.

After announcing the United States would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, Vice President Mike Pence wraps up a four-day Middle East trip Tuesday by meeting with Israel's president and making visits to a Holocaust remembrance center and the Western Wall.

Burundian women collect firewood outside Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. The task takes hours and many women carry their babies too. A UNHCR-led initiative is replacing firewood with LPG fuel here to prevent environmental degradation and protect vulnerable refugees from sexual and gender-based violence.

A young Syrian refugee bundles up against the cold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley in January 2016.

Concluding a two-day visit to Kyiv on January 19, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) reiterated the steadfast support of the Parliamentary Assembly for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, within its internationally-recognized borders, and renewed calls to reach a sustained ceasefire.

Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, a stalwart supporter of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Messenger of Peace, has contributed to the launch of a special fund to allow the rapid purchase and transportation of high energy biscuits in response to sudden onset emergencies. The highly fortified biscuits provide people caught in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters, or conflict, with an immediate source of nutritious food that is packed with energy.

A student stands in the ruins of one of his former classrooms, which was destroyed in June 2015, at the Aal Okab school in Saada, Yemen. Students now attend lessons in UNICEF tents nearby.

In this file photograph, a Syrian child refugee, with feet only partially covered in adult sandals, stands in the snow at an informal tented settlement in Lebanon.