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The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, has ended a three-day visit to Lebanon, Syria and Jordan where he saw WFP operations in the three countries and met with displaced Syrian families in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, Eastern Ghouta in Syria and Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye.

For as long as she could remember, Samjhana wanted to finish school and get an education. She completed secondary school and even managed to convince her father to let her go to college in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, far from her village.

UNICEF appreciates the announcement from the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of US $70 million towards monthly cash stipends to teachers across Yemen.

On 12 September 2018 in Beni, Kambale, 7 years old, attends school in the Ndindi neighborhod of Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been hit by an Ebola epidemic. There he learned that washing his hands is a good way to prevent Ebola.

A CH-147 Chinook helicopter takes off while Canadian UN peacekeepers protect themselves from dust during a medical evacuation exercise around Gao in Mali.

Representatives of 50 countries attended a global forum for school feeding practicioners to exchange views on how to improve and scale up their national programmes.

UN World Data Forum logo.

Thousands of Rohingya refugees line the roads of the Kutupalong mega refugee settlement as the UNSC visit takes place. Many hold signs welcoming the visit and saying they want justice, as well as stating their key demands for repatriation.

Rohingya refugees make their way down a footpath during a heavy monsoon downpour in Kutupalong refugee settlement, Cox's Bazar district. 2018.