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Secretary-General Ban (right) receives an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Cambridge for his humanitarian work, support for women’s rights and achievements in pursuit of global peace and security.

In the Central African Republic (CAR), a nurse vaccinates a baby in a village along the Oubangui River, which divides CAR from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

A boy from Afghanistan receives warm gloves at ta UNICEF distribution point in the Winter Reception Transit Center in Slavonski Brod, Croatia.

MEPs discussed situation of refugees entering Europe and the future of Schengen

Working in tandem with the Syrian Arab Red Cross (SARC), UNHCR has delivered crucial humanitarian aid to a rural town near Damascus that has been cut off by fighting for three years, stranding thousands of residents in dire conditions without clean water or fuel for warmth.

An internally displaced Congolese girl peels vegetables while taking care of her sister in Northern Kivu, DRC.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon holds press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with Senior Advisors summing up activities as part of 26th African Union Summit.

A woman draws water from a collection tank in the ground, in Melbana Village, Mio District, in Ethiopia’s drought-affected Borena Zone. The collection tank has just been filled by a tanker truck delivering emergency water supplies.

Whereas on the public side of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the well-heeled Establishment held forth as usual on an eclectic array of topics, and private conversations behind-the-scenes were dominated chiefly by panic over the escalating financial crash of the trans/Atlantic sector, Chinese President Xi Jinping did something much more important: With a spectacular trip to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran, he laid the basis for the integration of Southwest Asia into the New Silk Road, and thereby created the prerequisite for ending the conflict between Shi’a and Sunni in the region. With the perspective for reconstruction and development offered by China, the concrete opportunity suddenly arises to overcome the refugee crisis by rebuilding the migrants’ devastated home countries.