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Displaced children play at the M'poko IDPs camp in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Martin Schulz at the Valletta summit on migration

People demonstrate in Bujumbura against a decision by Burundi’s ruling party to nominate President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term (April 2015).

Families fleeing ongoing violence in Ramadi, Anbar province, walk across Bzebiz Bridge into Baghdad province in Iraq.

Asylum-seekers from Syria, including children, arrive on the shores of the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece.

Special Representative the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Ján Kubiš, briefs the Security Council.

Shrapnel-injured Yemeni refugee Seif Zeid Abdulah stands on crutches at Markazi camp in Djibouti.

Although he is only 14 years old, Samir's face shows a maturity and a seriousness well beyond his age. He has experienced far too much for a child.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) arrives for the opening of the Fourth Summit of Arab and South American Countries in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Malian refugee Alassane Maïga sits on a makeshift bed at Abala refugee camp in Niger