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The Government of Italy has donated EUR 1 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF to assist people affected by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2017.

Orlando Bloom speaks with Eta, 12, Bosso, Niger, 19 February 2017. Two years ago Boko Haram forced into her family home and lined them up in the courtyard, looking for her father and threatening to kill everyone if they didn’t give him up. They fled.

The Review Meeting of the ROC’s 2nd Report Under the ICCPR & ICESCR was held at the Evergreen International Convention Center on Jan. 16-18, 2017

A community health worker with UNICEF partner Swiss-Kaalmo, based in Salamey Idale IDP camp in Somalia, goes door to door to spread health messages to mothers and children living in the camp.

Farmers prepare land to plant turmeric. Bheri Ganga village, Surkhet district, western Nepal.

On 5 August 2016 in Aleppo city in the Syrian Arab Republic, a child with spinal muscular atrophy who needs special medical care, now lives on the streets of western Aleppo city, after fleeing with her family from attacks and intense fighting.

On 17 February 2017 in Juba, Hellen Maneno holds her baby Emmanuel Laki, a child with severe malnutrition, at the malnutrition ward in Al Shabbab hospital in Juba, South Sudan.

In February 2016, villagers gather at the Ula Arba water point, in Ziway Dugda Woreda, Arsi zone Oromia region, Ethiopia.

As fighting spreads in Yemen in February 2017, a recently displaced family receives UNHCR assistance, a tent to live in, in the coastal governate of Al Hudaydah. Some 34,000 people fled their homes in Al Mokha and Dhubab districts as the conflict intensified.

On 5 February, a woman plays with her 2-year-old son, Kuot Kune, at the UNICEF-supported Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital, where Kuot is being treated for severe acute malnutrition, in Juba, the capital.