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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on 16 June launched a major campaign that asks the world to stand together #WithRefugees. In a stunning video message more than 60 global celebrities join with refugees and aid workers to echo the message, “we stand with refugees, please stand with us.” The petition appeals for government action on behalf of the world’s forcibly displaced.

A Taliban uncle threatened to use Sufyan, 15, in a suicide attack. He escaped to Europe and has been in Calais for 8 or 9 months, trying to cross into England.

A Congolese refugee at an emergency school in Obo, Haut-Mbomou, Central African Republic, (CAR) after fleeing attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

UNHCR High Profile Supporter Theo James meets refugees in Greece

A child wanders in the refugee camp of Assaga, near Diffa, Niger. More than 135 displacement sites have been noted along the border with Nigeria, where there has been increased acts of violence conducted by Boko Haram.

African leaders are not doing enough to stop conflicts in Africa, said two-thirds of the nearly 86,000 youth surveyed in a recent mobile-based poll conducted in nine African countries.

Twins Aimamo and Ibrahim, 16, at a beach in Trabia, Italy, on May 14, 2016. They live at Rainbow, a center for unaccompanied boys.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, address the at a joint news conference.

The European Commission (EC) and the World Bank Group (WBG) on 14 June announced their commitment to strengthen joint action on sustaining peace and increase development impact in situations affected by fragility, conflict and violence.

If Turkey goes on undermining rule of law principles and stripping Members of the Turkish Parliament of their immunities, then it should not expect to be granted an EU visa-free regime, said Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs on Tuesday in a debate with Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). They also voiced solidarity with Mr Demirtaş’ efforts to revive the Kurdish peace process talks.