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Walid Mechrhale, 14, stands outside the Alkadia youth centre, in the city of Turin, Piedmont Region, Italy.

Peter Thomson (left), President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly. At his side is Movses Abelian, Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.

Through local partners, WFP is providing monthly food assistance to families in need. The food provided includes rice, lentils, beans, bulgur wheat, wheat flour, cooking oil, salt and sugar.

Secretary-General António Guterres is visiting Afghanistan to show solidarity with the Afghan people.

In the wake of Cyclone Mora, flood waters flattened many homes in this village in Kalutara, Sri Lanka.

Resettled Syrian refugee Muhammed and his brother Yousef look out of the window of their home in Gänserndorf, Austria, November 2015.

The FC Barcelona Foundation and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on June 13th, announced a major joint campaign to rally support for refugee children. The #SignAndPass campaign, launched with the support of key players of the football club, marks a new and important step forward in cooperation between the two organizations.

Congolese women and children arrive at a border point in Chissanda, Lunda Norte, Angola after fleeing militia attacks in Kasai Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 2017.

Unless new funding quickly arrives, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) may be forced to suspend its voucher food assistance in July for nearly 150,000 people in Gaza and the West Bank, the majority of whom are women and children.

A fifteen-year-old child works to weld a frame in Sana’a, Yemen.