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“Heart-breaking images of children’s bodies washing up on the shores of Europe … lying suffocated in the backs of trucks crossing borders … being passed over barbed wire fences by desperate parents.

Two small children who fled the escalating violence in Iraq (file photo).

President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Saber Chowdhury (right) with women speakers of parliament, who attended the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament at UN Headquarters.

Last weekend a convoy of 13 trucks successfully passed the cross line in Eastern Ukraine and arrived at Gorlovka.

“The destruction of Palmyra constitutes an intolerable crime against civilization but 4,500 years of history will never be erased,” the Director-General declared.

The number of women and children fleeing violence in their countries of origin and passing through the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia seeking refuge in Europe has tripled in the past three months, UNICEF said on September 1.

This building in Yemen was destroyed by airstrikes.

Togolese refugee Paul Gbedji -- a civil engineer – has built a new life in Liberia after losing entire family in post-election violence

MEPs have a busy week ahead of them

A group of Afghans recently arrive on the island of Lesbos after travelling in an inflatable raft from Turkey to Greece. More than 300,000 refugees and migrants have used the dangerous sea route across the Mediterranean so far this year.