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On 15 August 2016, Tyra Caal, 2 years old plays while her mother Glenda Caal sits with her son, Michael Junior Caal, four months old, at home near near Punta Gorda.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets with UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie.

Young women in Colombia forced into sexual exploitation.

Over the past 6 years of the war in Syria, access to health services for the civilian population in the country has seriously deteriorated.

The Launch of the Equal Pay Platform of Champions at the UN General Hall on 13 March 2016.

On the sixth anniversary of Syria’s conflict, we must remember those who are suffering most from this calamity – the 4.9 million refugees, the 6.3 million people displaced internally and the millions more inside Syria living in daily fear of this war and the inhumanity it has created.

Professor Amivi Kafui Tete-Benissan (left) teaches cell biology and biochemistry at the University of Lomé, in the capital of Togo.

On 5 August 2016 in Aleppo city in the Syrian Arab Republic, displaced families from Reyadeh and 1070 neighbourhoods take shelter at the Teshreen Kindergarten in western Aleppo city.

This is a major milestone in preparations at the naval base where £100m has been invested by UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).