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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.

A child, who is blind and has albinism reads Braille at a primary school for children with disabilities in the town of Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region.

Secretary-General António Guterres.

Sachin Tendulkar and UNICEF released a new video to celebrate fatherhood and highlight the importance of love, play, protection and good nutrition for the healthy development of young children’s brains on Jun 14.

July 18, 2010 Children get polio drops at the Islamia School polio booth in Bada Bazaar area of Mainpuri.

North Korea has released from prison an American college student who was sentenced to a 15-year term for attempting to steal a propaganda poster in 2016, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.

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