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A widow holds her grandson in a displaced persons camp in northern Idleb Governorate, Syria.

The war on children in Syria has been one of the most brutal in recent history. Nearly 6 million Syrian children were born since the crisis began. They know nothing but war and displacement. On average, a child in Syria has been killed every 10 hours due to violence, and more than 2.5 million children have been uprooted and forced to flee to neighbouring countries in search of safety.

A disabled refugee girl from Syria in a wheelchair is helped by her sister as she and her other siblings head to school in Adana, Turkey.

In Dera’a camp in Syria, young Palestinian refugees continue to study despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Men and boys who “turn a blind eye” to violence against women, must accept that they are “accomplices to violence” according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.

a cargo flight from WFP’s newly established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium arrived in Burkina Faso carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

A Rohingya refugee family sit in the doorway of their new monsoon-ready shelter in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Children use their tablet to learn in a village on the outskirts of Kassala in Eastern Sudan.

Seven suspects accused of taking just over $132 million from VBS Mutual bank in South Africa have pleaded not guilty to dozens of fraud and theft charges.