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Drug gangs using mobiles and couriers to deal remotely in UK rural areas, including coastal and market towns, will have phones shut down, under new plans announced by UK Home Secretary on 22 January.

Crops at the periurban agriculture cooperative Vivero Alamar, Cuba.

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) line up early in the morning for a general food distribution at the UN Protection of Civilians Site, Malakal, South Sudan.

On 18 January 2017, in the Tabanovce refugee and migrant centre, a Syrian girl, carries a plastic cup filled with snow.

Young refugee girls sit on the steps of an informal recreational space at a camp in Lagkadikia, northern Greece where more than 30 per cent of the population are children. UNHCR and its partners have created a safe space for unaccompanied children here.

Workers' rights are increasingly coming under pressure due to developments such as global competition and the digital revolution. The European Commission is working on plans to improve the situation. On 19 January MEPs adopted a report stating that workers in new type of jobs should be covered by labour laws.

On 23 August 2014 children queue to fill jerrycans and other containers with water, at a filling station in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip

As the Gambia faces an uncertain political transition, the situation raises concerns for the nearly 26,000 people – half of them children – who have left the country to neighbouring Senegal. The threat of unrest has also left thousands of children in the Gambia without access to education following the closure of schools in parts of the country.

Syrian refugee children looking out from their new home in the small town of Gänserndorf, Austria. They are on a resettlement program for Syrian refugees, in cooperation with UNHCR.