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On the eve of the United Nations Summit in New York in September, the stakes of this Conference are high. “We have been very clear from the outset that the new global and transformative post-2015 agenda must go along with equally ambitious and credible means of implementation,” says the Director-General. “We are coming together here in Addis Ababa to agree on how to deliver on this commitment.”

The Greece debt crisis took centre stage during July's plenary session, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to Strasbourg to discuss the search for solutions. MEPs also adopted their recommendations for Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and approved a reform of the EU's emissions trading scheme that should boost incentives for green investments. Read on for our summary of what happened in Strasbourg in a busy summer week.

Just over 300 Syrian refugees with passports lining up to board the night ferry from the Greek island of Kos to Athens where they can be registered.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, briefs the Security Council.

More than four million Syrians have now fled war and persecution and become refugees in neighbouring countries, making the Syrian conflict the UN refugee agency's worst crisis for almost a quarter of a century.

Refugees in Minawao camp , Cameroon, after fleeing violence by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria.

A child gets vaccinated for polio at Al-Olufi Health Center in downtown Sanaa.

Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan at Ethiopia's Pagak entry point in Gambella in April 2015.

The UN refugee agency renewed a call on Tuesday (July 7) for parties to the conflict in Yemen to respect civilian life following a weekend rocket attack on a kindergarten in Aden which killed 12 refugees.

Sophie, 30, takes care of children in the kindergarten where she works in Budapest, Hungary. Sophie, 30, fled her native Togo in West Africa to avoid forced female genital mutilation. She was recognized as a refugee in 2004 and has twin boys, aged 10, and a daughter, seven, all born in Hungary. She says she has lost all touch with her family in Togo and would like to become a Hungarian citizen – but her application has been rejected twice.