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Shackles used to bind slaves.

Alexis, 18, with his brother Wilson, 6, and their pet, a Caracara, at home in Omoa, Honduras.

Displacement site in Khamer, Amran Governorate, Yemen. About 200 families of the muhamasheen minority, displaced from Sa’ada by fighting, live in the site.

Two reports issued on 18 August show that 12 countries taking part in a UNHCR strategy to end detention of asylum seekers and refugees have made important progress towards ending detention of children over the past two years.

The Government of Uganda and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are implementing containment measures in the recently-opened Pagirinya settlement in Adjumani district following confirmation of an outbreak of cholera.

Fourteen-year-old Luny, was recently released from an armed group.

The United Nations envoy for Syria abruptly suspended the regular international humanitarian taskforce meeting in Geneva shortly after it started, saying it made “no sense” to continue unless there is a pause in the fighting so aid convoys could reach besieged areas of the war-ravaged country on Aug 18.

UNICEF Australia urges Minister Dutton to seriously consider resettlement options in credible third countries that are equipped to respond to the complex needs of refugees and their families, in the wake of news that an agreement has been made to close the Manus Island detention centre.

A large ball of fire and plume of smoke – resulting from an air strike that hit a military site on Faj Attan Mountain, Yemen, high above Sana’a, the capital – rises skyward and begins to spread over the city below.

IDP’s from the Protection of Civilian site (PoC site) in Juba, South Sudan, take cover and seek safety from the heavy fighting between the SPLA and SPLA-IO.