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UNICEF welcomes increasing commitments by European leaders to support refugees and migrants – commitments that should now trigger urgent action by all EU Member States to fully protect children.

Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous briefs the press in New York At left is UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.

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Two-year-old Aya fled ongoing violence in Syria to Lebanon with her 22-year-old mother.

A wide view of the Security Council in session.

WHO and partners responding to an oubreak of measles in West Darfur in April 2015.

People in a market in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

This family fled north-east Nigeria across the border to Diffa, Niger, in fear of attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Refugees sit in the sun at a collection point in Röszke near the Hungarian-Serbian border while waiting to be transported to a registration centre.

Parliament backed temporary emergency rules to relocate an initial total of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU member states over two years in a vote on Wednesday. In the migration debate on Wednesday, most MEPs welcomed the Commission's new proposals outlined by Juncker in his state of the Union speech, stressing that more contributions to solidarity will be needed.

A boy stands outside a building damaged during fighting in Aleppo City, Syria.