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In At Tur, near Al Maqassad hospital in East Jerusalem, one of several roadblocks, placed by Israeli forces in October 2015 in Palestinian neighbourhoods, as the wave of violence across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel continued.

The world remains a deeply unfair place for the poorest and most disadvantaged children despite major advances since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, according to a UNICEF report released on November 20.

MEPs called on Wednesday for more focus on migration and security and more flexibility in the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), after foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and neighbourhood policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn presented their proposals for a new ENP to the foreign affairs committee.

WHO has so far delivered 960,000 liters of safe water to the population of Al-Mothafar, Sala and Al-Qahera district of Taiz City, Yemen.

Children risk bearing the brunt of an escalation in violence in Burundi, UNICEF warned on November 18, noting that the crisis has already left 17 children dead and many more injured.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier during the meeting with the foreign affairs committee

Asylum-seekers stay in temporary accommodation in one of three huge hangars at Berlin Tempelhof Airport.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić in the processing centre at Presevo where refugees are registered.

Nora HouguenadeH.E. Mr François Hollande, President of France, participates in the Organization's Leaders' Forum - UNESCO, 17 November 2015.

The death of 224 passengers on a downed Russian jet was an abhorrent act of mass killing. Russia’s Federal Security Service said on November 17, 2015, that the October 31 crash of a Russian jet over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, was the result of a bomb placed on board. The crash was the worst in the history of Russian civilian aviation.