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Tuareg refugees ride camels to the desert area of Initkan, Niger, where they received UNHCR assistance, April 2013.

The West Bank barrier, along with checkpoints, roadblocks and permit system, has created a closure regime that has had a dire effect on all aspects of life for Palestine refugees.

In camps for the displaced, UNICEF is providing food, basic health services, water and hygiene items to support the most vulnerable children and families.

Secretary-General António Guterres.

Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Head of UNAMA, briefs the Security Council.

Germany has contributed €25.5 million (US$28.5 million) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to assist more than 710,000 hungry people in the four-nation Lake Chad Basin region that is battling a Boko Haram insurgency.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is constructing a Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) in the Gilgit Baltistan (GB) –the northern area of Pakistan, thanks to funding from the Government of Canada. This will be the seventh HRF built in Pakistan as part of a strategic network of storage facilities to help the Government and humanitarian community better prepare for and respond to disasters.

August 17, 2007. Resma, 9, illuminates the platform below her neighbour's tin roof where she and her family took refuge during the storm, in the village of Amua in Barisal District. The area was one of the hardest hit by Cyclone Sidr.

A nine-year-old child and his younger, eight-year-old, brother sit in their room, drawing and colouring. They are living live with foster parents in Lipova commune, Bacau county, Romania.

An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan.