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At the first Brussels conference on "Supporting the future of Syria and the region" on 4-5 April 2017, the international community and the governments of refugee hosting countries came together to reaffirm their commitments to help millions of affected civilians in Syria as well as Syrian refugees and the communities generously hosting them.

A Rohingya refugee child sits next to buckets collecting rainwater at a makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. With the arrival of rains, the challenges have multiplied for hundreds of thousands of refugees in the area.

The Government of Japan has announced a contribution of US$ 1 million to enhance the resilience of communities in Zimbabwe through a comprehensive set of life-saving health, nutrition, food security and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) interventions.

The Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Alfonso Dastis, visited the logistics base of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Las Palmas of Gran Canaria this morning. The logistics base, located in the port of Las Palmas, is a key hub for responding to humanitarian needs in West Africa.

Faiza (centre, in purple), 31, from Manono village in Tanganyika province, sits among a group of Congolese women who established a site for internally displaced persons at EP Moni primary school in Kalemie.

The Council added four persons to the list of those subject to the restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). These restrictive measures consist of a travel ban and an asset freeze. The four individuals have been involved in deceptive financial practices which are suspected of contributing to the DPRK's nuclear-related, ballistic-missile-related or other weapons of mass destruction-related programmes.

The Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Jamie McGoldrick, on April 19, called for the protection of Palestinian demonstrators and for urgent funding to meet critical humanitarian needs that have been generated by the massive rise in Palestinian casualties in Gaza since 30 March.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has joined President Donald Trump's legal team dealing with the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.

More than 150 experts from across the OSCE area and the Asian region gathered in Seoul for an inter-regional conference on preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Korea in close co-operation with the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, on April 19th.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed his country's rape epidemic Wednesday, asserting that rape should not be politicized and that recent sexual assaults have shamed the nation.