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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (right) meets with officials at Röszke Transit Zone in Hungary. Röszke is one of two “transit zones” in Hungary, where asylum-seekers are confined while awaiting the outcome of their applications.

At the end of a two-day mission to Nigeria, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, said that the Government and humanitarians had made important progress in delivering life-saving relief to millions of people in north-east Nigeria. However, the complex Lake Chad Basin crisis will require sustained international support over the coming years.

A national table top exercise focusing on preparedness and protection of non-nuclear critical energy infrastructure against IT-based terrorist attacks concluded on 13 September 2017 in Bratislava.

People arriving are in urgent need of life-saving assistance , including food, water and sanitation, health and protection.

Miroslav Lajčák (centre), President of the 72nd session of the General Assembly, gavels open the session’s first meeting. He is flanked by Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Catherine Pollard, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.

On 8 March 2016, a boy is carried by a family member walking between makeshift tents along the train tracks in Idomeni, Greece.

Three United Nations agencies leading the response to a dire hunger and nutrition crisis in South Sudan welcomed a US$50 million donation from the World Bank to address food insecurity and malnutrition in the country on Sep 12.

Distribution of High-Energy Biscuits in Haiti started on 10 September.

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a temporary order allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees while the court considers challenges to the travel ban.

The Brazilian government has opened an investigation into the deaths of 10 members of an uncontacted indigenous tribe, allegedly at the hands of gold miners.