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The Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem.

A five year-old boy carries an empty water jerry in Al-hol camp in north-eastern Syria, hosting over 4,600 Iraqi refugees. Like most children there, he bears the brunt of carrying water for his family.

UNICEF international Goodwill Ambassador, Angélique Kidjo and UNICEF Benin national Goodwill Ambassador Zeynab Abib, along with seven of Benin’s greatest artists have joined forces to create a song calling on the population to say NO to child marriage.

Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed (second from the left), alongside UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten, and Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development of Nigeria, Aisha Alhassan, speaking to the press in Abuja.

The World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of €1 million (US$1.1 million) from the Government of Germany that will enable it to continue providing life-saving food assistance to Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.

Women carry emergency food supplies from a World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter that landed in Thanyang, South Sudan.

The United States has provided a critical lifeline to more than half a million vulnerable people in Niger during the hungriest time of the year, with an in-kind, US$45 million contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). This will help provide food assistance and enhance resilience-building, including in areas affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$11 million contribution from the United States that will help more than half a million people in Central African Republic (C.A.R.) combat deepening hunger, amid a new wave of unrest.

More people warned against tobacco use.

A wide view of the Security Council open debate on enhancing African capacities in the areas of peace and security.