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Two-year-old Aya fled ongoing violence in Syria to Lebanon with her 22-year-old mother.

A wide view of the Security Council in session.

WHO and partners responding to an oubreak of measles in West Darfur in April 2015.

People in a market in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

This family fled north-east Nigeria across the border to Diffa, Niger, in fear of attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Refugees sit in the sun at a collection point in Röszke near the Hungarian-Serbian border while waiting to be transported to a registration centre.

Parliament backed temporary emergency rules to relocate an initial total of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU member states over two years in a vote on Wednesday. In the migration debate on Wednesday, most MEPs welcomed the Commission's new proposals outlined by Juncker in his state of the Union speech, stressing that more contributions to solidarity will be needed.

A boy stands outside a building damaged during fighting in Aleppo City, Syria.

A health worker, measures the mid-upper-arm of a young boy to assess his nutrition status prior to his admission to the UNICEF-supported Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital in Juba, South Sudan.

Syrian children play in the streets of Aleppo, home to well over a million internally displaced people, in November 2014.