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A binding emergency mechanism to relocate an initial total of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU member states was backed by civil liberties MEPs on Thursday. An upcoming permanent scheme, on which Parliament will decide jointly with the Council, must be based "on a more substantial contribution to solidarity and responsibility-sharing among member states", MEPs say.

Through a national school feeding program in Oudomxay province, Lao PDR, students get at least a third of their daily energy and nutrition needs. Seen here, a student enjoys her vegetables.

Refugees from Burundi in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The number of children and teenagers murdered in Brazil has more than doubled in 20 years, according to a new UNICEF report marking 25 years since the introduction of the Child and Adolescent Statute.

Djibouti, 13July 2015, Eddie Izzard with Jawaher, 7, and her brother Ziad,10, at Caritas Educaction Centre, in Obock.

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.

A mosque in Afghanistan.

Delegates at the opening of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, in Addis Ababa.

On 20 February 2015, volunteers unload bottled water in Debaltsevo, Donetsk Oblast

Exhausted survivors of the Gulf of Aden crossing wait for help on a beach in Yemen.