Photo:Asylum-seekers from Syria, including children, arrive on the shores of the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece.
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Photo:Displaced by the floods, a woman and her child walk along a road in southern Nepal.
Photo:Displaced children and adults are seen after fleeing from ISIL-controlled areas in rural Raqqa, Syria, to Ain Issa, the main staging point for displaced families, some 50 Km north of Raqqa city.
Photo:Some 17,000 people who fled to a UN protection of Civilians site in Wau, South Sudan following recent violence, have access to water, and are putting up basic structures to shield from the hot sun.
Photo:Electrical power transmission lines in Gaza City.
24 August 2017
With Gaza entering its fourth month of a serious energy crisis, the United Nations today released a further $2.5 million from a pooled humanitarian fund to cover urgent needs in the Palestinian enclave.
Photo:Rohingya refugees, displaced by violence in Myanmar, at a camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh.
24 August 2017
The United Nations today welcomed the release of the final report of an independent advisory body looking into the situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
23 August 2017
Photo:A person walks amid destroyed buildings and rubble in Tabqa city, Raqqa governorate, Syria.
Photo:UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
22 August 2017
Today, the top United Nations human rights official welcomed the repeal of laws in Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan that allow rapists to avoid criminal prosecution by marrying their victims.
Photo:A Yazidi Kurd from Sinjar who was abducted by ISISL, pictured here in Mamilyan Camp for internally displaced persons in Akre, Iraq.