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A victim of fighting in Sudan receives treatment at the Malakal Teaching Hospital. The hospital receives medicine and blankets from the UN Children's Fund, and food from the UN World Food Programme and World Vision.
UN Photo/Tim McKulka
A woman holding her young malnourished baby queues for food at the Badbado camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Somalia. Famine has been declared in two regions of southern Somalia – southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. The United Nations indicates that 3.7 million people across the country, that’s nearly half of the Somali population, are now in crisis and in urgent need of assistance. An estimated 2.8 million of those are in the south.
UN Photo/Stuart Price
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 the medical treatment in the aftermath of the floods caused by the tropical storm "Hanna".
UN Photo/Marco Dormino
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).
UN Photo/Sophia Paris
Somali men carry a severely malnourished child to the headquarters of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for emergency medical treatment. AMISOM is an active regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations. Somalia is affected by a severe drought that has ravaged large swaths of the Horn of Africa, leaving an estimated 11 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
UN Photo/Stuart Price
A Somali woman hands her severely malnourished child to a medical officer of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an active regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations. Somalia is affected by a severe drought that has ravaged large swaths of the Horn of Africa, leaving an estimated 11 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
UN Photo/Stuart Price
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. UNHCR through its implementing partner, PAO, provides food and non-food items, as well as legal protection and counselling for the IDPs.
UN Photo/Bikem Ekberzade
Children line up at the water distribution centre in El Srief (North Darfur) where the nearest water point is 15 kilometers away. The activity fosters Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR). The outreach activity is organized by the African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the North Sudan DDR Commission and the local NGO Friends of Peace and Development Organization (FPDO).
UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran
Patients, all 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.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider