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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, briefs the Security Council.

More than four million Syrians have now fled war and persecution and become refugees in neighbouring countries, making the Syrian conflict the UN refugee agency's worst crisis for almost a quarter of a century.

Refugees in Minawao camp , Cameroon, after fleeing violence by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria.

A child gets vaccinated for polio at Al-Olufi Health Center in downtown Sanaa.

Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan at Ethiopia's Pagak entry point in Gambella in April 2015.

The UN refugee agency renewed a call on Tuesday (July 7) for parties to the conflict in Yemen to respect civilian life following a weekend rocket attack on a kindergarten in Aden which killed 12 refugees.

Sophie, 30, takes care of children in the kindergarten where she works in Budapest, Hungary. Sophie, 30, fled her native Togo in West Africa to avoid forced female genital mutilation. She was recognized as a refugee in 2004 and has twin boys, aged 10, and a daughter, seven, all born in Hungary. She says she has lost all touch with her family in Togo and would like to become a Hungarian citizen – but her application has been rejected twice.

Abdul Kade, 73, has only been in the camp a month. He fled his home in Raqaa when the fighting engulfed it. He has a six-year-old son Mustafa and to escape they had to hide for three days.

Distribution of relief items including mattresses and blankets in Al-Bureiqa to IDPs in Yemen

Members of the Cooperative Agriculture Maraicher for Boulbi, water and hoe their vegetable fields in Kieryaghin village, Burkina Faso.