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Almost 8 million children under 5 in 15 crisis-hit countries are at risk of death from severe wasting unless they receive immediate therapeutic food and care – with the number rising by the minute, on June 22, UNICEF warned as world leaders prepare to meet at the G7 summit.

Damage is seen in the Spera district, in Khost province after a devastating earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan in the early morning of 22 June 2022.

The remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, after the dropping of the atomic bomb, in Hiroshima, Japan. This site was later preserved as a monument.

Alina and Artem, who are both aged nine and from the northeastern city of Kharkiv in Ukraine, sit on a makeshift sofa in the underground car park which serves as a bomb shelter.

The UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed was in Kazakhstan on Thursday, where she spoke out against the “silent pandemic” of gender-based violence worldwide, saying that only collective action could end the scourge.

The Stockholm+50 Conference took place on June 2-3, 2022 at Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm, Sweden.

Almost 30 ecofeminists gathered at an event associated with the Stockholm+50 conference titled “Feminist priorities for people, planet and peace” on June 1, 2022 at the Stockholm Environmental Institute and virtually. (FOWPAL)

A 9-year-old girl stands in an underground car park in Kharkiv where she is sheltering with her parents during the conflict in Ukraine.

Young girls protest at the March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi with Rohingya refugees at the Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre at Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.