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MEPs have another busy week ahead of them.

Martin Schulz (right) with François Hollande

The civil liberties committee discusses on Tuesday 22 September new proposals by the European Commission to tackle the refugee crisis. Proposed measures include a permanent relocation mechanism, a common EU list of safe countries of origin and an effective return policy. Ahead of the debate, we asked Parliament’s political groups for their views on the crisis.

On September 16, despite relatively little change in U.S. poverty numbers, Bread for the World points to new U.S. Census Bureau data showing that federal safety-net programs continue to prevent millions of people from falling into poverty. The bureau announced that 14.8 percent of Americans lived in poverty in 2014, essentially unchanged from 2013.

The Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine held a three-day training course on dialogue facilitation for young people from 7 to 9 September in Kyiv.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achieved significant progress over the past 15 years, but persistent gaps in official development assistance and insufficient access to markets, affordable medicines and new technologies have highlighted the need for a rejuvenation of the global partnership for development, according to a new United Nations report launched on 18 September.

UNHCR humanitarian aid is waiting to be loaded into a Boeing 747 airplane at Marka Airport in Jordan. The airlift with core relief items was going to Erbil, Northern Iraq.

Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and EC VP Frans Timmermans.

UNICEF is in touch with the Government of Hungary's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York to discuss how refugee and migrant children can be adequately protected in line with the country’s commitments to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Rural residents in Mongolia will benefit from a $34.1 million program funded by World Bank and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) that aims to make the government funding process more transparent and more responsive to community needs.