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Philip Hammond travelled to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, en route to Hiroshima for the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting.

Director-General of United Nations Office of Geneva (UNOG) Michael Møller addresses the conference on Preventing Violent Extremism, at the Palais des Nations.

In 1996 in Rwanda, wooden crosses mark the graves in a cemetery in the village of Nyanza in a rural area of Kigali, the capital. During the 1994 genocide, over 10,000 people were burned to death in Nyanza as they tried to escape towards Burundi.

Child refugees in Idomeni, Greece, March 2016

Displaced persons in Sortoni, North Darfur, Sudan, who fled their original homes and sought refuge near UNAMID’s Team Site following ongoing clashes between armed movements and government forces in the Jebel Marra area.

Every day lost in the implementation of Mali’s peace agreement is a day gained for extremist and terrorist groups that have bet heavily that the process will fail, the top United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council on April 5, stressing that the Government and the armed groups who signed the deal must establish a timeline to resolve all pending issues.

Esmeralda* with her daughter Sara* in Chiapas, Mexico. Along with her husband and three other children, she escaped increasing gang violence in El Salvador and obtained refugee status in Mexico. * names changed for protection reasons.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said on April 5 that the world’s powers need to pay far greater attention to boosting developing economies and creating jobs in the most fragile countries in order to give more opportunity to people in those nations and to prevent future refugee crises.