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Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 2 December highlighted the challenges people with disabilities face despite progress made since the adoption of a global treaty to promote their rights a decade ago.

The Irish Government announced a contribution of EUR 1.5 million to support emergency operations by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Mozambique, where 1.4 million people are unable to meet their food needs due to an El Niño-induced drought on Dec 02.

A total of 108,750 poor rural households in four regions of Ethiopia are expected to benefit from a financial agreement signed between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Ethiopia to boost small-scale irrigation schemes on Dec 02.

Internally displaced children, victims of conflict in Colombia.

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A nine year-old child sits in one of the neighbourhoods in the old city of Aleppo, Syria, holding his jerry can, looking for drinking water.

Humanitarian partners have responded rapidly and are working around the clock to assist people in Wau, South Sudan.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Nicaragua have signed a financial agreement to boost sustainable agricultural production in the Dry Corridor, the area of the country most affected by droughts and climate change.

Over a hundred thousand families in conflict-hit northeast Nigeria have been reached so-far with food and nutrition support in a US$20 million (£16.1m) multi-year joint project funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

On 8 March 2016, a boy lifts the plastic sheeting off his makeshift tent to look out.