Photo:On 4 January 2017, UNICEF started trucking water to 50 schools in the capital Damascus and surrounding areas. Fighting in and around Wadi Barada, on the outskirts of Damascus, has resulted in damages to the water network.
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Photo:Families flee their homes in Mosul, Iraq, heading for an army outpost in the Samah neighbourhood where they will be taken away from the heavy fighting engulfing the city.
Photo:This photo shows Amal who is looking at her destroyed home in Sana’a, Yemen, after it was hit by an airstrike in April 2015.
Photo:U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Sessions to become U.S. attorney general on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., January 10, 2017.
Photo:UNHCR Special Envoy Mohamed Abdi Affey (second, right) listens to a Somali refugee in Dadaab, Kenya, who has opted to return home under a voluntary repatriation programme.
Photo:Recipients of UNHCR blankets walk back to their home after an aid distribution in a liberated area of east Mosul, Iraq.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate US President Barack Obama enters the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2009.
Photo:Bamiyan, Afghanistan: children make a long journey to continue their education.
Photo:Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran Asma Jahangir.
Photo:Repairing the water network in Jabalia camp, northern Gaza.