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Bolstering the commitment of the United Nations to work with and for the world's youth, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced several key initiatives towards that end, including the formation of an expert group on 'youth, peace and security,' and naming a new envoy on youth employment on 12 August.

We are expecting a brief hot spell early next week, but why is this happening, how long is it going to last for and how is it going to end?

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends refugee resettlement event with UNA-USA, International Rescue Committee and the Annenberg Foundation, at the Annenberg Foundation, in Los Angeles.

Migrants and asylum-seekers, mostly Syrian Kurds, sit in the yard outside a schoolhouse-turned-reception centre, known as Vrazhdebna, on the outskirts of the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

Students at a UN-backed development project site that supports vulnerable populations in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

On 2 August 2016, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien (centre), visited the protected site adjacent to the UNMISS base in Wau, South Sudan, where more than 20,000 people are seeking protection as a result of recent conflict.

Children displaced from ongoing conflict shelter under makeshift tents on Muhalak highway in the western part of Aleppo, Syria.

This photo shows Amal who is looking at her destroyed home in Sana’a, Yemen, after it was hit by an airstrike in April 2015.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a key note address at the Argentine Council of Foreign Relations in Buenos Aires.

Families displaced by ongoing fighting seek shelter in the UN Protection of Civilians site in Wau, South Sudan.