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Emergency aid being offloaded from a UNHCR vessel at the Hodeidah Port, Yemen.

Eighteen people, including two children under 5 years of age, have died from cholera in the most recent outbreak to hit South Sudan. The first cholera case was reported on 27 May in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba. Since then, 170 suspected cases have been reported inside the site and in villages across Central Equatoria State.

Author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Khaled Hosseini meeting Muzoon 'The Malala of Syrian Refugees' in Jordan on the occasion of World Refugee Day on Saturday, June 20.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, visits a Syrian refugee family in Turkey's Midyat camp on World Refugee Day.

Mary McGowan Davis, Chairperson, Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict, at press conference in Geneva.

UNICEF Tanzania and partners are working hard to provide lifesaving medicines, medical supplies, cholera beds, buckets, blankets and vaccines as refugees from Burundi continue to arrive in high numbers.

A WFP food distribution point in Yemen.

Hundreds of refugees and migrants aboard a fishing boat moments before being rescued by the Italian Navy in June 2014.

Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino León briefs reporters in Skhirat, Morocco.

Global Trends 2014