Photo:In December 2015, a mother loads preserved food supplies in a truck as the family prepares to move out of Nashabieh village to a neighbouring safer town within besieged East Ghouta, Syria. Almost 400,000 people are trapped in besieged locations.
Politics
26 October 2017
Photo:Migrants form queues to be counted by their smuggler prior to being transported by boat from Obock, northern Djibouti, to Yemen.
Photo:Secretary-General António Guterres (left) holds a joint press briefing with President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic.
Photo:Three sisters, ranging in age from two to five years old, and their friends are at a camp in Galkayo, Somalia, waiting to be vaccinated. Along with education support, UNICEF is also supporting polio and measles vaccine programmes in the camp.
Photo:In Uruguay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (centre) alongside Commissioners from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, launches the Joint Action Mechanism on protection of human rights defenders in the Americas.
Photo:Destruction left behind in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica.
Photo:A person walks amid destroyed buildings and rubble in Tabqa city, Raqqa governorate, Syria.
25 October 2017
The United Nations health agency is stepping up the delivery of medicines and medical supplies to thousands of people in newly accessible areas of Raqqa.
24 October 2017
Photo:A woman collects hygiene kits for her family in Cox’s Bazar temporary settlement camps.