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World Humanitarian Day
19 August

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Residents of Rutshuru Territory of North Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have fled fighting between the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group, and taken refuge in Kanyaruchinya camp on the outskirts of Goma. UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

a doctor listening to a boy's heartbeat people standing near a tent a baby in bed crying people standing in a queue a boy near a dry lake children eating rice A victim of fighting in Sudan receives treatment at a hospital equipped with supplies from UNICEF, WFP and World Vision. A woman holding her malnourished baby queues for food at the Badbado camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Somalia. A member of the Argentinean battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) carries a baby to a UN helicopter to be evacuated to Port au Prince for medical treatment. A young victim of Haiti’s earthquake receives treatment at an impromptu hospital established by the Jordanian battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Somali men carry a severely malnourished child to the headquarters of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for emergency medical treatment. A Somali woman hands her severely malnourished child to a medical officer of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) An officer of the Public Aid Organization (PAO), working under the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), talks to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Baharke, Iraq. Children line up at the water distribution centre in El Srief (North Darfur) where the nearest water point is 15 kilometers away. Victims of the earthquake that hit Pakistan on 8 October 2005, wait to receive treatment and health supplies at a mobile clinic of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Pakistan. rescue team recovers an earthquake survivor child amputee in her hospital bed in Haiti Wyclef Jean, Matt Damon and Frank McKenna aid worker holds girl injured in earthquake John Holmes speaks to residents of camp mother comforts her child as he receives vaccinations child receives vaccination in DRC aid worker distributes blankets to survivors of cyclone Nargis victims of the earthquake in Pakistan lay on beds volunteer holding a child with AIDS aid worker distributing free condoms girl washes her face at a new camp site for displaced Haitians sudanese displaced people receive food rations WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran in Sudan Villagers unload food aid in Kenya aid workers carry children through flood in Ethiopia children eating from one bowl in Niger Somali girls eating school meal water distribution in Darfur woman pouring water nomadic woman giving child water to drink. family at cholera treatment centre vocational training class CAR malnourished child Niger child playing at therapeutic feeding centre
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