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Carabinieri officers on duty in Italy.

A precious food distribution in South Sudan. UNHCR and WFP fear that too many people may be cut off from assistance if conflict continues in the country.

A woman wearing a niqab speaks with the media in Paris on April 11, 2011.

Israel’s military operations in the West Bank following the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers have amounted to collective punishment. The military operations included unlawful use of force, arbitrary arrests, and illegal home demolitions. During raids on Palestinian towns, refugee camps, and villages, Israeli forces have shot and killed at least five Palestinians and arrested and detained at least 150 more without charge.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, and the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, Podgorica, 2 July 2014.

Former child soldiers draw in a UNICEF-assisted transit centre in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Siblings take shelter in a school in Duhok Governorate, Iraq, after fleeing recent fighting.

People fleeing intense fighting in Mosul, the third largest city in Iraq, crossing into the Erbil governerate.

President Barack Obama is seeking $2 billion in emergency funds to curb the influx of women and children fleeing Central America and illegally entering the United States.