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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.

The UK has been ranked as the second most innovative country in the world on 17 September 2015. The Global Innovation Index (GII) has placed the UK above the USA, Singapore and Germany for the third year running, recognising the UK’s standing in the field of innovation.

Tens of thousands of Afghans have swelled the ranks of those seeking refuge in Europe this year. Second only to Syrians, Afghans represent the next largest group – 13 percent – of those making the journey so far in 2015.

A street lined with rubble and destroyed buildings in the Old City area of Homs, Syria.

A Syrian woman cries in relief as she embraces her three young children after a very rough crossing of the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.

Refugees wait to take a bus in Hungary right after crossing the border from Serbia in order to go to the pre-registration center. Thousands of refugees fleeing war and persecution, mostly in Syria, cross this border every day.