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

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

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.

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.

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

A displaced woman stands in a temporary longhouse shelter in Minbya township, Rakhine State, Myanmar.

105 tonnes of ivory from over 7,000 elephants and 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn was burned in Nairobi, Kenya, on 30 April 2016, in an urgent call to action to end the poaching crisis.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left) addresses the 2016 Integration Segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Every commissioner and key investigator into the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, in which 2,977 innocent Americans were killed, has not only demanded that President Obama declassify and publicly release the 28-page chapter from the original Joint Congressional Inquiry, providing leads on the role of the Saudi government and the Saudi Royal Family in 9/11. They have also demanded the full declassification of all of the still-classified files from the Joint Inquiry and the follow-on 9/11 Commission.

Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheik Ahmed