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Displaced Ukrainian single mother Nina poses with her five children after their return from school.

Voters in the PK5 area of the capital Bangui after casting ballots in the Central African Republic referendum from 13 to 14 December 2015 on a new draft constitution for the country.

Mohammad Nofal Yassin, a Palestinian from Syria, with his twin daughters Awham and Hanan and his son Ahmed shortly after registration in Tabakika on Chios island.

Yemenis in Sana’a search for survivors after a bombing by the Saudi-Arabia led coalition.

A volunteer life-guard helps a young girl out of the sea after the boat she used along with her family and other Afghan refugees to cross part of the Aegean from the coast of Turkey to Lesbos towards the end of 2015 crashed on a rock off the island's coast.

Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Nicholas Haysom briefs the Security Council.

Burundian refugee Larson talks with a customer at his pharmacy in Nakivale refugee settlement in Uganda.

Central African Republic refugees at the Timangolo site in Cameroon, including mothers and young children, queue for food.

"It is easy to blame Europe or Schengen for security failures in our Member States, and wave the illusion that retreating behind national borders somehow immunises against - often home-grown - terrorists", said the EP President Schulz in his opening speech before the European Council of 17-18 December dedicated to pressing issues, such as migration, counter terrorism and the British referendum. "If we want to preserve our freedom of movement, then we must act fast and decisively."

Welcoming the Security Council's unanimous adoption of a blueprint for peace in Syria, a senior United Nations official has called on all sides to immediately stop using sexual violence as a tactic in the fighting tearing the country apart.