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The Regional Processing Centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, November 2014.

France's most serious nationwide work stoppage in decades frustrated weekend travelers Saturday as truckers blocked thoroughfares and vital transportation services continued to operate far below normal capacity.

UNHCR staff talk to students on the first day of term at Tal Estabel school in Aleppo, Syria, September 2019.

A woman in northern India who was on her way to a court hearing of a rape case she had filed months ago was set on fire Thursday morning by five men.

Sunset over Doro refugee camp in Maban County, South Sudan, June 2013.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (right) greets refugees on their return to Bangui, the Central African Republic.

A seven-year old boy stands in front of debris as Hurricane Irma moves off from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic.

The Tanzanian Maasai landscape has witnessed a dramatic increase in soil erosion.

Approximately 94 per cent of all unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children currently in Italy, 6,172 children under 18, are living in reception centres, often isolated and cut off from opportunities to build their future, said UNICEF on Dec 05, 2019. The agency urged authorities to increase community and family-based housing solutions across the country.

A woman selling flowers in Vietnam's tourist-laden Hanoi wears a mask to mitigate breathing in polluted air.