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More and more children are facing increasingly complex and destructive conflicts, natural disasters and other emergencies, including the Ebola epidemic, UNICEF warned as it launched its largest appeal ever of $3.1 billion to reach 62 million children at risk worldwide. Seen here are children displaced by the ongoing violence in Iraq. Photo: UNAMI
The UN marked the annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust - observed on 27 January, the date on which the German Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated in 1945 - by calling on the world to work together to stamp out all forms of bigotry, hatred and extremism.
At a summit in Ethiopia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the partnership between the African Union and the UN in tackling the Ebola outbreak as well as the many peace and security threats on the continent. Noting a number of upcoming elections in Africa, he also warned against using undemocratic constitutional changes or loopholes to cling to power. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Lack of funding is hampering humanitarian aid to Syrians affected by the ongoing conflict, says the UN, which added that needs continue to outpace response. Some 12 million people inside Syria need assistance, along with 3.8 million who have fled to neighbouring countries such as this refugee family in Jordan’s Za’atari camp. Photo:WFP/Joelle Eid
UNICEF and partners have secured the release of around 3,000 children from an armed group in South Sudan - one of the largest ever demobilizations of children. The children range in age from 11 to 17 years old and some have been fighting for up to four years and many have never attended school. Photo: UNICEF South Sudan/Marinetta Peru
The UN said the number of new Ebola cases in West Africa fell below 100 this week for the first time in seven months, and that the battle against the deadly virus has shifted from slowing transmission to ending the epidemic. Highly contaminated waste is removed (above) from a treatment unit to a disposal area where it will be burned. Photo: WHO/R. Sørensen
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