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A powerful new UNICEF film presenting the parallel stories of a young Syrian refugee and a World War II child refugee was released as a stark illustration of the challenges that refugee children continue to face on Feb 03.

A boy who is an unaccompanied minor looks across the beach in Trabia, Italy, on May 14, 2016.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) officially handed over two high frequency (HF) radio packs to the Fiji Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management in Suva on 1 February 2017. The HF back packs will be used by the Fiji National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) for their operations. The handover is part of WFP’s ongoing efforts to strengthen emergency communication systems in Fiji, in its role as lead of the Pacific Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC).

The use of UAVs in humanitarian response has the potential to improve data collection and monitoring, helping to create faster response systems in the face of disaster.

A wide view of the Security Council as it considers the situation concerning Iraq.

Risking their lives to reach Europe from North Africa, a boatload of people, some of them likely in need of international protection, are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian Navy.

Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).

On 20 February 2015, children play with materials from a UNICEF education kit, in a bomb shelter, in the city of Donetsk, Oblast.

UNHCR is deeply concerned about the plight of thousands of Yemeni civilians fleeing or caught up in heavy confrontations between the warring parties in the Red Sea districts of Al Mokha and Dhubab in Taizz governorate.

“There is very little that one can say – these ruins speak for themselves. When you see children’s clothes hanging out of windows, kitchens cut in half by shells and rockets, the real lives of people interrupted by war as it was happening, I think this will weigh very heavily on the conscience of the world for generations.