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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.

Refugees from Central African Republic, Merveille, aged nine and Octavie, seven, were given a chance to start over in Canada with their family in 2016.

At the end of a three-day visit to Niger, the new United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, on September 11, commended the Government of Niger for tackling the country’s complex humanitarian crisis, including leading the provision of life-saving aid to 400,000 people in the Diffa region, where one out of two people require humanitarian assistance and Boko Haram attacks remain a grave threat.