19 Sep 2016
A summit to address the biggest refugee crisis since World War II opens at the United Nations on Monday, overshadowed by the ongoing war in Syria and faltering US-Russian efforts to halt the fighting.
Politics
Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre left) meets with Irina Bokova (centre right), Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and members of his Scientific Advisory Board, to receive the final report of the Board.
Photo:A family of refugees from Syria pose beside a shelter at Azraq camp in Jordan.
Photo:In Diffa, Niger, a family uprooted from Malam Fatouri, Nigeria, by Boko Haram shelter at a site for displaced civilians on 18 August 2016.
Photo:Peter Thomson (foreground), President-elect of the seventy-first session the General Assembly, takes the oath of office during the concluding meeting of the preceding session, becoming the first Assembly President to do so.
Photo:The situation in eastern Ukraine remains volatile and continues to have a severe impact on human rights.
Photo:On 13 September 2016 in the western part of Aleppo city, Syria, UNICEF representatives speak with displaced mothers and children living in make-shift tents and shelters in the neighbourhood of Majabel.
Photo: On 24 August 2016, two children walk arm in arm down a war damaged street in Aleppo, Syria.
Photo: A woman who is seeking asylum walks through the Cara reception center in Mineo, Sicily, on May 18, 2016. The camp, formerly a U.S. military barracks, holds approximately 3,000 people.
Photo:A boy stands in a classroom at his school after it was hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa July 20, 2015.