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Rohingya refugee Ara, 16, and her 11 month old daughter, Taslima, pictured in Balong Khali refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses reporters at UN Headquarters.

Boys play football at the HAPPY KIDS and Adolescent NGO in Kenema, Sierra Leone, Sunday 4 June 2017. HAPPY Kids and Adolescents is supported by UNICEF to provide services to children living with HIV and AIDS or those affected by it.

Birds scavenging for food amidst the debris at the landfill in Danbury, Connecticut in the United States.

Children in the Yemeni capital Sana’a and other districts are cut off from vital help and risk being injured or killed in intense street battles and airstrikes. Save the Children is calling for an urgent ceasefire to allow aid agencies to help children in need of food and medical supplies.

Displaced Yemeni children sit at the Dharawan settlement on the outskirts of Sana’a.

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine agreed on 4 December 2017 to strengthen co-operation and co-ordination in promoting the rule of law and human rights, critical for the stable and democratic future of the country.

The tax reform legislation passed by the U.S. Senate leaves kids behind now and in the future, said Save the Children President & CEO Carolyn Miles and Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) President Mark Shriver, on December 2.

Special Representative for International Migration, Louise Arbour, addresses the preparatory meeting of the intergovernmental conference to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

A child suffering from cholera lies on a bed at the Alsadaqah Hospital, Aden, Yemen, Monday 14 August 2017