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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (left) and Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit (right) signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 20 September 2017. The MoU aims to establish a global cooperation framework for an effective response to the needs of refugees in the Arab region and to facilitate better humanitarian access and emergency response.

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.

On 15 September 2017, newly arrived Rohingya refugee children make the long journey into Bangladesh carrying all of their possessions, after their village was torched in Myanmar.

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of the Commonwealth of Dominica addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.

Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.

Ambassador-at-large of Somalia, H.E. Mr. Abdirashid A. Sed also rings the Bell.

Barbara Atherly, Consul General of Guyana, rang the Bell of World Peace and Love.

FOWPAL holds the 2017 International Forum of Love and Peace, with 200 people attending, consolidating the positive energy of NGOs to solve the current world crisis.

They came in unending lines, the very old and the very young—hundreds of thousands of Middle East migrants and refugees on the Balkan Route from southern to northern Europe via Croatia in 2015.