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The head of the UN Refugee Agency António Guterres has warned that anti-Muslim rhetoric, including pressure for tighter border controls, could backfire and play into the hands of terror groups.

30th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly session closed Wednesday in Brussels after debating major new global challenges

UNODC and UNDP have developed a joint global campaign calling for people to ‘Break the Corruption Chain.

Security Council adopts historic resolution on youth, peace and security.

Nine-year-ole Zahara Ali cooks breakfast in a rural village in the Dubti Woreda, Afar Region, Ethiopia.

Syrian refugee parents Afeesh and Rasha hug their daughters shortly after landing on the Island of Lesvos, Greece.

WHO estimates that at least 51 hospitals have been damaged or partially destroyed over the past six months due to the ongoing conflict in Yemen.

A young boy at a UNICEF winter supplies distribution centre in Damascus, Syria.

Fifteen year old Mohammad sits in front of the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan, where he lives with his family and goes to a UNICEF supported school. He fled in 2015 when the conflict in his hometown in the Golan Heights in south-western Syria intensified.

Photo shows other South Sudanese refugees aboard a boat in Ethiopia, November 2014.