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The government of Japan has announced a contribution of USD 7 million to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and World Food Programme (WFP) to support the Afghan Refugees and host communities in Pakistan.

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic deaths of more than 20 girls in the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción shelter in Guatemala as a result of a fire in which many others were injured. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and to the people of Guatemala.

Left to right: Nancee Bright (Office of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict), Lisa Buttenheim (Department of Field Support), Maria Luiza Viotti, Chef de Cabinet, and Christian Saunders (Department of Management), brief the media on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse.

Students of Computer Sciences at Khowaja Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan. Photo: Visual News Associates/World Bank; Rural Women's Cooperative in Guinea. Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade; Women entrepreneurs, workers and small business owners, Lebanon.

Tropical smallholder farmers do not always use protective gear while handling pesticides.

A girl is administered a dose of oral poliovirus vaccine in Sana’a, Yemen, Monday 9 November 2015.

Leaders from the three UN Rome-based agencies marked International Women’s Day by reinforcing their commitments to step up efforts to invest in the capacities of rural women as key agents of change in building a world without hunger on Mar 08.

Women wait with their children to be examined and given supplementary food if needed in a mobile clinic run by UNICEF during a Rapid Response Mission (RRM) in the village of Rubkuai, Unity State, South Sudan, 16 February 16 2017.

Pakistani migrants in Kos, Greece, showing a map he received with information about the closure of Hungary border and suggesting to go through Croatia instead.

Women displaced by drought waiting to meet Secretary-General António Guterres during his visit to Baidoa, Somalia, where the focus was on famine and cholera.