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Nonviolent Peaceforce has been facilitating reunification of families separated by conflict in South Sudan. Here a family is reunited in a Protection of Civilians (POC) site in Juba after over two years apart.

113 UK service personnel have been granted state honours by UK Queen in the annual birthday honours list.

An U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber, deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., takes off March 27, 2016, in the U.S. Pacific Command area of operations.

The final public consultations on the content of the new National Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of the UN SCR 1325 – Women, Peace and Security (2016-2020) was held on 10 June 2016 in Belgrade at the premises of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.

MEPs debated plans for investment in Africa to help migrants find work in their home country during June's plenary session in Strasbourg this week. They looked too at ways to integrate migrants into the EU's labour market without disadvantaging local workers. MEPs also approved the mandate for an inquiry committee into the Panama papers and reviewed the EU's €315 billion investment plan. In addition Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev pleaded for more EU integration in a speech to plenary.

“Everyone must question their humanity when babies have to be taken out of incubators because of attacks on hospitals.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters at UN Headquarters in New York.

Nigerian refugee Boussam installs a pole to start building a shelter in Sayam Forage camp, in Niger’s Diffa region.