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A Military Liaison Officer of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), looks through binoculars during a ceasefire monitoring patrol in Oum Dreyga, Western Sahara (June 2010).

People living in the Melia IDP camp, Lake Chad, receiving WFP food. Most of the displaced come from the Lake Chad islands, that have been abandoned because of insecurity.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a vital injection of €1.5 million from the European Union to help meet the food needs of Malian refugees in Mauritania.

The Government of Italy has donated EUR 1 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF to assist people affected by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2017.

Orlando Bloom speaks with Eta, 12, Bosso, Niger, 19 February 2017. Two years ago Boko Haram forced into her family home and lined them up in the courtyard, looking for her father and threatening to kill everyone if they didn’t give him up. They fled.

The Review Meeting of the ROC’s 2nd Report Under the ICCPR & ICESCR was held at the Evergreen International Convention Center on Jan. 16-18, 2017

A community health worker with UNICEF partner Swiss-Kaalmo, based in Salamey Idale IDP camp in Somalia, goes door to door to spread health messages to mothers and children living in the camp.

Farmers prepare land to plant turmeric. Bheri Ganga village, Surkhet district, western Nepal.

On 5 August 2016 in Aleppo city in the Syrian Arab Republic, a child with spinal muscular atrophy who needs special medical care, now lives on the streets of western Aleppo city, after fleeing with her family from attacks and intense fighting.

On 17 February 2017 in Juba, Hellen Maneno holds her baby Emmanuel Laki, a child with severe malnutrition, at the malnutrition ward in Al Shabbab hospital in Juba, South Sudan.