Politics

Photo:Supporting Iraqi families with hens for egg production and meat.

20 June 2017
Thousands of vulnerable Iraqi and Syrian refugee families affected by conflict in northern Iraq aim to profit from new livelihood ventures of the United Nations agriculture agency.

Photo:South Sudanese refugees wait at a reception centre in Uganda for further processing before relocation to a settlement. More than one million children have been forced from their homes since violence erupted in South Sudan in December 2013.

Photo:A Muslim boy prays on the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka June 2, 2017.

Photo:An Afghan policeman stands guard at the entrance of a local school sponsored by Japan’s International Cooperation Agency in Kandahar City on May 11, 2010.

June 20, 2017

Photo:After three days on the road, South Sudanese refugees arrive at the newly constructed Gure Shembola Camp in Ethiopia.

Photo:South Sudanese refugees spend the night at a way station in Gimbi, Ethiopia while en route to the newly constructed Gure Shembola Camp.

Photo:UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Muzoon Almellehan meets students at the School of Peace at a internally displaced peoples site in the Lake Region, Chad, during her visit to the region in April 2017.

Photo:Cho Tae-yul, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations and Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, presents to the Security Council the Commission’s report on its tenth session.

Photo:European Council President Donald Tusk and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrive at the EU-China Summit in Brussels on June 2, 2017.

Photo:Deposed President Mohamed Morsy, wearing the red uniform of a prisoner sentenced to death, greets his lawyers and people from behind bars during his June 2015 court appearance with Muslim Brotherhood members on the outskirts of Cairo.