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As the ‘Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region’ opens, UNHCR and UNDP – on behalf of the 240 international and national partners and the host governments in the region – are extremely concerned by the current low funding levels of the response to help millions of Syrian refugees and the communities hosting them.

Boys pass rubble and destroyed buildings on their way to a nearby private school offering basic lessons, in the city of Maarat al-Numaan, Idlib Governorate.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a new four-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2017-2020 designed to strengthen and support the Government of Bangladesh in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of “Zero Hunger “by 2030.

The World Food Programme (WFP), together with the Government of Zimbabwe, launched a five-year plan to build resilience, end hunger and boost nutrition in country on Apr 03.

A girl reads a textbook at a school in Yunnan Province, China.

U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on March 31, 2017 yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported on April 1, 2017.

Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compared with 80 million in 2015, according to a new global report on food crises released in Brussels on Mar 31.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres interacting with a child at the Hassan Sham camp in northern Iraq.