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Three members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the speaker of the New York City Council were arrested Tuesday during a protest calling for action to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the United States when they were children.

British police have arrested a third suspect in last week's bombing on a London Underground train that injured more than 30 people.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure protection for refugees and asylum-seekers after a shocking shooting incident in Kamanyola on September 15 in which at least 39 people were killed and another 94 injured.

The Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, strongly condemns the deadly attacks targeting innocent civilians in Konduga, Banki and Ngala areas of Borno State in conflict-struck north-east Nigeria.

United Nations aid and development chiefs, government officials, and business leaders pledged to expand cooperation in preparing for and responding to crises through new networks that engage the private sector, on September 19.

Anna-Katharina Deininger, the Special Representative on Youth and Security of the Austrian OSCE Charimanship, speaking during an event on youth engagement held on the margins of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 18 September 2017, Warsaw.

Host communities and relief agencies are struggling to cope with the enormous demand for food, shelter and other assistance in Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have fled to in the past three weeks.

A girl displaced with her family by Boko Haram insurgents from their home on an island in Lake Chad, in Melea village, Lake Region, Chad, Wednesday 19 April 2017.

Secretary-General António Guterres and US President Donald Trump (right) during the high-level meeting on reform of the United Nations.

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, after traveling for five hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal.