Photo:In East Ghouta, Syria, rural Damascus, a child's plush toy lies in the rubble of a destroyed building (file photo).
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Photo: The Pan American Health Organization-World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), UNICEF and Haiti’s Ministry of Health launched in Archaie the first phase of a cholera vaccination campaign targeting 400,000 persons in 2016.
Photo:In the wake of the February 2016 hostilities in Malakal, South Sudan, UN and humanitarian partners have rapidly mobilized additional supplies to respond to the new needs generated by the violence.
Photo: Gatkuoth, 15-years-old (not his real name), was recently released from an armed group in South Sudan. He was recruited when he was just thirteen. UNICEF estimate that there are still 16,000 children associated with armed groups in the country.
Photo:Under-Secretary-General Stephen O'Brien pays a visit to a camp in Saint Saveur, Central African Republic.
Photo: A little girl stands outside her makeshift tent in Aleppo, Syria, where 2 million people face a potentially catastrophic situation.
August 17, 2016
I had the privilege of joining over a 1,000 Catholic religious sisters last week at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Assembly in Atlanta, Ga. – the annual meeting of the heads of women’s religious orders around the country.
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.
Photo:Syrian children attend class in a school in the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, October 20, 2015. The school taught Syrian girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon, but lacked electricity, heating, and running water.