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On 23 March 2016, 16-year-old Charmela loads credit to her mobile phone, in her home off the northwest coast of Madagascar. She dropped out of school. Too young to work, Charmela spends a lot of time on the internet and is now being solicited online.

At a ceremony on Dec 11 in a remote village in Tanga, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) distributed tablets to children loaded with education software.

A Muslim grieving over his son’s grave in Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Only two cases have been recognized as genocide by international courts: Rwanda (1994) and Srebrenica (Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1995).

Voters wait to cast their ballots for federal and provincial elections at a polling location in Bhaktapur district, Nepal.

The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, has concluded a two-day trip to Algeria. In Tindouf, southwestern Algeria, Beasley visited two of the five camps for refugees from Western Sahara, talking to refugees and examining WFP’s hydroponics project that helping refugee families grow animal fodder. Beasley also had discussions with senior government officials and WFP partners.

Chairperson of the Informal Working Group on Structured Dialogue, Ambassador Eberhard Pohl speaking at the side event, Vienna, 7 December 2017.

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Neal Walker, on December 7, briefed UN Member States in Geneva on the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine as part of the launch of the country’s Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for 2018. The plan outlines the key humanitarian relief and protection activities required to meet the critical needs of 2.3 million men, women and children affected by the conflict in 2018.

Congress has passed an emergency spending bill to fund the federal government for two more weeks, avoiding a partial shutdown that would have taken effect Friday night.

Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria briefs the press during Intra-Syrian talks, Geneva.

U.S. Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, is one of the country’s best known living icons of the fight for civil rights in the 1960s.