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Three month old Success Sumois, strapped to her mother’s back, waits to be registered through the mobile birth registration team at the Totota Clinic in Liberia.

Some 456 people, including several dozen children, were rescued by an Irish naval patrol responding to a distress call on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 28 but 14 others died.

The world’s population grew to seven billion in 2011.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria.

Boys hold shrapnel from exploded artillery shells while standing on a street damaged by blasts in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen.

Children in the Khanke Camp near Dohuk city, Iraq, which mainly houses Yazidis fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

View over Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan housing over 80,000 Syrian Refugees. This Wednesday marks three years since it was set up.

Abdallah and his six-year-old son stand in what used to be the entrance of their home, in Sana’a’s Bayt Mayad neighbourhood.

Polio vaccination campaign in Iraq – August 2014.

Abdirahim with his stepfather Muhamed after receiving his Certificate of Achievement for the 'My Somalia' art competition.