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UNHCR staff wait at the port of Augusta in Sicily to disembark refugees found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea in May 2016.

China can play a key role in steering development efforts to help resolve refugee crises, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, as he concluded his first official visit to Beijing on June 8th.

Community members transport humanitarian supplies delivered in Mayendit town, South Sudan. An inter-agency mobile team was deployed to support the resumption of life-saving services by static partners.

A researcher tests tomatoes at the IAEA’s Food and Environmental Laboratory in Seibersdorf, Austria.

On 18 May 2017 in Al-Tabqa city in the Syrian Arab Republic, Hasan, 12 (red shirt) and his friends walk past a destroyed car. He and his family have been uprooted twice due to violence, forcing him to drop out of school .

On 12 May 2017 at the Sab'een Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen, children suffering from severe diarrhoea or cholera receive treatment.

Migrants at a detention centre in the city of Zawiya, Libya.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$ 4 million from China, which will support food assistance for more than 100,000 people in need.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$5 million from the Government of the People’s Republic of China to provide food assistance to 160,000 people affected by acute hunger in South Sudan, including 30,000 children under the age of five on Jun 06.

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses Security Council meeting on Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Preventive Diplomacy and Transboundary waters. To his right is President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia.