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Two young refugees wait with their parents to go to emergency accommodation in Nickelsdorf, Austria, earlier this month. Austria is facing an unprecedented arrival of refugees, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ahead of the UN Sustainable Development Summit from 25-27 September, and to mark the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, a 10-minute film introducing the Sustainable Development Goals is projected onto UN Headquarters.

Business activity on eastern shore of Lake Chad where life goes on in Chad despite the insurgency

More than a thousand refugees and migrants wait under the searing sun at the newly blocked Serbia-Croatia border crossing near Bapska

The EU military operation against people smugglers in the Mediterranean is about to enter its next phase. After gathering intelligence and setting up the structure, the operation will now focus on arresting traffickers and disabling smugglers vessel. The operation were discussed by MEPs during a meeting of the security and defence subcommittee on 22 September.

Novak Djokovic in a UNICEF-supported child-friendly space in Belgrade, 22 September 2015

"UNICEF welcomes the recognition by the EU that the best interests of children are paramount in their relocation within the EU and that the special needs of children for health care and protection should be a primary concern.

Special Representative for Libya Bernardino León speaks at a press conference in Skhirat, Morocco.

L-R: Dr. Jack Shonkoff, of Harvard University; UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake; Madame Yoo Soon-taek; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Shakira; and Matthew Bishop, of The Economist, at the ‘Meeting of the Minds' event

Mandana Amiri, UNHCR protection officer, writes an information poster in Farsi for refugees at the Croatian government transit center in Opatovac, near the Serbian border