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While finding water is a daily struggle for most family, food is equally difficult to source. As thousands of people lost their homes and their sources of income, they also became unable to properly feed their children.

António Guterres, Secretary-General-designate of the United Nations, takes the oath of office for his five-year term, which begins on 1 January 2017. The oath was administered by Peter Thomson, President of the 71st session of the General Assembly.

Newly displaced civilians stop at a check point in Qayyara, south of Mosul on 31 October 2016.

Two boys are cheered by their friends during a long-jump competition at UNRRA-run El Shatt camp for Yugoslav refugees, near the north-eastern port city of Suez. 18 months before, they were snipers shooting at invading German soldiers in the Bosnian region.

Wide view of the Security Council Chamber.

António Guterres of Portugal.

On 1 December, displaced children pick up boxes of winter clothing at a UNICEF-supported distribution on Sinjar Mountain in Ninewa Governorate, Iraq.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), alongside other humanitarian agencies in Aleppo, is delivering a comprehensive response to meet the needs of the newly displaced from the Eastern part of Aleppo.

Parliament´s rapporteur for the proposal, Agustín Díaz de Mera (EPP, ES), noted that “the changes agreed provide flexibility for the rapid activation of the suspension mechanism”. He also underlined that the deal “will facilitate the immediate consideration of the two visa liberalization proposals for Georgia and Ukraine.”

On 10 October 2016 in Jérémie, Haiti, a toddler rests near collapsed homes on top of a hill.