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Sophie, 30, takes care of children in the kindergarten where she works in Budapest, Hungary. Sophie, 30, fled her native Togo in West Africa to avoid forced female genital mutilation. She was recognized as a refugee in 2004 and has twin boys, aged 10, and a daughter, seven, all born in Hungary. She says she has lost all touch with her family in Togo and would like to become a Hungarian citizen – but her application has been rejected twice.

Abdul Kade, 73, has only been in the camp a month. He fled his home in Raqaa when the fighting engulfed it. He has a six-year-old son Mustafa and to escape they had to hide for three days.

Distribution of relief items including mattresses and blankets in Al-Bureiqa to IDPs in Yemen

Members of the Cooperative Agriculture Maraicher for Boulbi, water and hoe their vegetable fields in Kieryaghin village, Burkina Faso.

UNMISS Indian Battalion conduct an operation to extract civilians who were stranded during fighting in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal, South Sudan.

Smoke fills the sky above the Yemeni capital Sana’a after a series of airstrikes (12 May).

UN High Commissioner for refugees, António Guterres, opens UNHCR's annual NGO consultations.

The conflict and humanitarian crisis in Syria are pushing an ever increasing number of children into exploitation in the labour market, and much more needs to be done to reverse the trend, according to a new report released by Save the Children and UNICEF.

Starting Wednesday, the rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the EU will be in the hands of one of the smallest, yet most experience member states. Luxembourg will have to deal with many pressing issues, including the Greek debt crisis, an increase in irregular migration and the preparation for the climate change conference in Paris in December. We asked all of the country's six MEPs what they see as the main challenges.

Burundian refugees, mostly women and children, wait on the shore of Lake Tanganyika to be transferred by boat to Kigoma and then on to Nyaragusu refugee camp.