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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.

In Thailand's Tham Hin camp, a UNHCR staff member captures the iris scan of a refugee from Myanmar for the new biometrics system.

Children play in an alley at a refugee camp near the Libyan capital Tripoli that now hosts internally displaced people from the town of Tawargha, south of Misrata.

Patrick Ky (right), executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, during the meeting with the transport committee.

A young internally displaced girl carries her sister at the marine academy near Tripoli.

A view of an IDP camp in Al-Jamea, Baghdad, where 97 families from Anbar Governorate have found temporary shelter.

The ongoing conflict in Yemen is having a devastating impact on the country’s health system, and exposing millions of children to the threat of preventable diseases, says UNICEF.