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Respect for different faiths ‘bedrock’ and ‘prerequisite’ of world peace, UN General Assembly told

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Religious leaders.

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OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre’s Mediation Support Team hosts brainstorming session on Dialogue in Ukraine

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OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine Vaidotas Verba and Torbjørn BjorvatnSenior, Project Manager, Agder Research, Kristiansand, Norway - OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre’s Mediation Support Team brainstorming session on Dialogue in Ukraine, Vienna, 26 April 2016.

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Panzeri on Libya: "The sooner we act the better it will be for all of us”

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Pier Antonio Panzeri

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UNICEF: Give children better protection under revised EU asylum procedures

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Children outside refugee tents, 8 March 2016, in Idomeni, Greece.

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No corner of Aleppo is being spared, Security Council told, as UN officials urge end to ‘carnage’ in Syria

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Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman addresses the Security Council meeting on Syria.

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Budget woes ‘costly distraction,’ Ban says, urging reliable funding for UN Palestine refugee agency

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UNRWA delivers humanitarian aid to civilians in Yalda, including those displaced from Yarmouk camp in Syria.

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Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch through Brasilia

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Syrian refugee Hanan Dacka takes part in the 2016 Olympic Games torch relay in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 3rd, 2016.

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Security Council demands protection for hospitals and health workers in conflict zones

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nurse taking care of an infant child in an incubator at the Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sana’a. Hospitals and clinics in Yemen have been paralyzed by the war: they have either been attacked, run out of medical supplies and fuel or the medical staff have been forced to flee.

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Horrified shipwreck survivors watched as hundreds drowned

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From left to right: Abdulrahman, aged three, sits on the laps of his father Yasin, 24. They are among 41 survivors of a boat that sank in the Mediterranean in mid-April causing the death of hundreds on board.

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Cate Blanchett appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

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Cate Blanchett meets young Syrian refugees at Mazboud Community Center in Lebanon, in this May 2015 file photograph.