World | WPN World People News

Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura (right), speaking with Security Council President for August, Joy Ogwu, at the Council’s special briefing on security sector reform.

Five-year old Melina is staying with her mother, Marzia, at the new temporary accommodation site in Eleonas, Athens.

Under-Secretary-General for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O’Brien (centre) with local authorities and media on 9 August 2015 in front of the Governorate of Amran, Yemen, that got destroyed in an airstrike.

UNHCR staff member Paul Kenya registers refugees from Burundi as they board a bus to take them to the new Mahama refugee camp in the Bugesera Reception Centre in Rwanda in May.

UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova

Last night, 13 educators and four of their children paid a most terrible price in the continuing conflict in Yemen – killed in an airstrike on a teachers’ office in Amran, just north of Sana’a. Twenty people, including one child, were injured. The latest casualties inflicted by all sides.

Archaeological site of Palmyra in Syria.

Specialized local operators carrying coffin of one victim of marine accident off the coast of Libya.

Dozens of refugees arrived in Greece by sea last month, mainly from countries experiencing war and conflict.

Faisal, 18 months old is treated for severe acute malnutrition at Sabeen hospital in Yemen’s capital Sana’a.