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A staff member of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was shot and killed on Wednesday during an ambush on two MSF vehicles in Central African Republic (CAR), the organization said on 19 May, condemning the attack in the strongest possible terms.

Shaima, 10, and a classmate, in front of the destroyed Shuje’iyah Girls’ School in Shuja’iyeh, eastern Gaza City, 2014.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lays a wreath at a ceremony at UN Headquarters for fallen peacekeepers.

Newly-arrived family in Tanzania’s Nduta camp. Burundi refugee Perrie fled her home with her three children in December 2015.

A huge shortfall in funds for sheltering refugees is severely undermining efforts to tackle the biggest global displacement crisis since World War II, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned on May 18.

On the road to Qatabir, Yemen, many bridges have been damaged, making life hard for everyone including distribution.

Refugee and migrant children receive recreational materials from the Hellenic Committee for UNICEF and partner Olympiacos Football Club, during a visit to the Eleonas Reception Centre in Athens, Greece.

Refugees and returnees who have fled Boko Haram violence in Borno State, Nigeria, sheltering in Niger's Guesseré village on the border.

A young boy writes in his maths book in the Tomping Protection of Civilians site, on the base of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Juba, the capital.

A young woman who had spent her teenage years with the armed group in Colombia met with UNICEF in an undisclosed location on 4 March 2016.