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Razor wire surrounds Debrecen centre for asylum-seekers in eastern Hungary. Parts of the centre are “open” but the facility also contains a unit for detaining asylum-seekers considered at risk of absconding. (file)

After bodies found in truck near Austrian border, Ban urges expansion of safe, legal channels of migration

28 August 2015

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A group of Afghans arrive on the island of Lesbos after travelling in an inflatable raft from Turkey to Greece. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants used the dangerous sea route across the Mediterranean in 2015.

More than 300,000 make perilous Mediterranean crossing in 2015 – UN refugee agency

28 August 2015

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Influx of refugees from FYR Macedonia to Serbia includes exhausted mothers with children resting in any kind of shade they can spot.

UN sets up ‘child-friendly’ space at migrant rest area near former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border

26 August 2015

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Dozens of refugees arrived in Greece by sea in July 2015, mainly from countries experiencing war and conflict.

UN agencies respond to refugee influx in Western Balkans

25 August 2015

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A policeman in Kabul, Afghanistan, which remains the most dangerous country for aid workers globally.

UN mission in Afghanistan condemns deadly suicide attack in Kabul

23 August 2015

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Young men and women at a college in Afghanistan.

Radio series encourages young Afghans to participate in politics

21 August 2015

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Several thousand asylum-seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, Ethiopia, Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan are living in makeshift camps or in the streets in Calais, France.

UN refugee agency welcomes joint declaration by France and United Kingdom on situation in Calais

20 August 2015

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Aid distribution for displaced persons in Khost province, Afghanistan.

Record civilian casualties and widening conflict stretch humanitarian capacities in Afghanistan – UN

18 August 2015

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Dozens of refugees arrived in Greece by sea in July 2015, mainly from countries experiencing war and conflict.

Amid ‘dramatic’ increase in refugees, UN urges Greece and wider Europe to boost humanitarian response

18 August 2015

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (5th right) with participants at the Special Event for World Humanitarian Day.

‘Each one of us can make a difference,’ Ban declares as UN marks World Humanitarian Day

18 August 2015

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