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To reap a demographic dividend, countries must empower, educate and employ their young people.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the media on allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR).

A woman and her children collect firewood and paper for baking bread in Ezbet Abd Rabbo, Gaza.

Abdur Rehman talking to a student in one of his schools in Attock.

Suffering displacement, injury and even death, children continue to bear unacceptable consequences of the recent escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza.

Somali refugees return to Somalia from Kenya – a short flight, but for many a journey of a lifetime.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (front, left) and his wife, Yoo Soon-taek (beside Mr. Ban), solemnly lay a wreath at the Hypocenter Monument at Nagasaki Peace Park, Japan during a visit in August 2010.

A group of Syrian refugees arrive on the island of Lesbos after traveling in an inflatable raft from Turkey, near Skala Sykaminias, Greece.

Residents of Sana’a, capital of Yemen, collecting water at one of the few public distribution points, as most water pumps across the city are no longer working because of the fuel shortages.

Several thousand asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, Ethiopia, Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan are living in makeshift camps or in the streets in Calais.