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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

“The violence against children in South Sudan has reached a new level of brutality.

Special intervention brigade forces from Tanzania, part of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - MONUSCO, on duty in Sake, North Kivu (July 2013).

In Pathai, a settlement in Jonglei State, South Sudan, persons displaced by conflict await registration for food distribution.

A Syrian refugee lifts a little girl over a broken border fence into Turkish territory, near the Turkish Akcakale border crossing to Sanliurfa province.

A child sleeps outside the screening centre at Moria on Lesvos. Refugees and migrants live in tents outside the screening centre here until there is a space available to accommodate them inside.

"The number of children in Yemen who have been killed as a result of conflict over the last 10 weeks is four times that of all those confirmed to have been killed in 2014. At least 279 children have been killed and 402 injured since the escalation of violence in Yemen which began on 26 March 2015, compared with 74 and 244, respectively, that were reported in the whole of last year.

"There can be no cultural relativism where human rights are concerned," said Louis Michel (ALDE, BE) on Monday, at the start of the 29th meeting of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, in Suva, Fiji. He said human rights could not be breached in the name of cultural diversity, adding that this issue was at the heart of discussions in Europe, as well as in the ACP states.