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Memorial service at the Beirut International Airport for UNIFIL peacekeeper Lance Corporal Francisco Javier Soria Toledo, who lost his life on 28 January 2015 in the line of duty in southern Lebanon.

UNICEF is launching a US$3.1 billion appeal – its largest ever – to reach 62 million children at risk in humanitarian crises worldwide – a US$1 billion jump in funding needs since last year’s appeal.

UNICEF flew in emergency supplies in response to the growing influx of displaced persons into Um Baru locality, north east of the State capital, El Fasher, in North Darfur on 28 January. Over the last two weeks some 4,000 additional people have arrived to the locality, most of them are women and children. Their number continues to increase daily.

Holocaust survivor Jona Laks addresses the UN General Assembly’s annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

Ceremony at the European Parliament to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Over 1,000 children are forced to seek refuge in underground bomb shelters in Donetsk city due to ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine, UNICEF said on January 27, 2015.

Children in South Sudan.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and his wife Yoo Soon-taek visit the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland in November 2013.

Reacting to the recent escalation of violence in Eastern Ukraine which, in particular, has already lead to heavy casualties among civilians in Donetsk and in Mariupol, PACE President Anne Brasseur reiterated her call on all sides to stop the fighting and respect the Minsk Cease-fire Agreement and Protocol.

Gernot Erler, the German government coordinator for Russia, ended an otherwise standard speech last week, which was otherwise devoted to papering over tensions in Berlin over continuing sanctions and conflict with Russia, with a stark warning that funds from the West should not flow into financing Kiev’s military attack on eastern Ukraine.