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Meeting of the Security Council to discuss the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Khan Shaykhun area of southern Idlib, Syria.

Families that fled fighting in eastern Aleppo, Syria, take refuge in a large warehouse in Jibreen.

Syrian refugees draw water at Kawergosk camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in March 2014. The Syria conflict is now in its seventh year.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US $3.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide desperately needed food assistance to tens of thousands of internally displaced people in Northeast Nigeria on Apr 04.

Boarding a pirate vessel off the coast of Somalia.

As the ‘Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region’ opens, UNHCR and UNDP – on behalf of the 240 international and national partners and the host governments in the region – are extremely concerned by the current low funding levels of the response to help millions of Syrian refugees and the communities hosting them.

Boys pass rubble and destroyed buildings on their way to a nearby private school offering basic lessons, in the city of Maarat al-Numaan, Idlib Governorate.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a new four-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2017-2020 designed to strengthen and support the Government of Bangladesh in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of “Zero Hunger “by 2030.

The World Food Programme (WFP), together with the Government of Zimbabwe, launched a five-year plan to build resilience, end hunger and boost nutrition in country on Apr 03.

A girl reads a textbook at a school in Yunnan Province, China.