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Drought forces a family in Somalia to sell teenage daughter into marriage: Heartbreaking photo report
Family forced into impossible situations as an an arc of hunger and violence stretches across Africa into the Middle East.
In pictures: The daily lives of the thousands of families who have had to flee their homes in Mosul
Award-winning photojournalist Carl Court visited the Hamam al-Alil refugee camp as the fight to liberate Mosul from Isis enters its sixth month.
In pictures: Four-day-old baby girl rescued from dinghy adrift in the Mediterranean Sea
Crew members abroad the 'Golfo Azzurro', the rescue vessel of the Spanish aid organisation Proactiva Open Arms, spotted two overcrowded rubber boats floating at sea in the early hours of Saturday (1 April)
Powerful photos of people being rescued at sea in the Mediterranean
Award-winning photojournalist David Ramos joined the crew of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms vessel Golfo Azzuro during a search and rescue mission off the coast of Libya.
Xenophobia-fearing asylum seekers risk brutal winter conditions to cross from US into Canada
Two men lost all their fingers to frostbite after a 10-hour trek across fields of waist-high snow in sub-zero temperatures.
Malaysian ship delivers aid to Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar
The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted groups in the world. Neither Bangladesh nor Myanmar recognises them as citizens.
The plight of the Rohingya: Caught between ethnic cleansing and banishment
The UN says Myanmar's security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims. Now Bangladesh plans to ship them off to a remote uninhabitable island.
South Sudan refugee exodus to Uganda raises spectre of Rwanda genocide
Award-winning photographer Paula Bronstein documents the biggest refugee movement in Central Africa since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
World's most dangerous border crossing: Photos of dramatic rescues in Mediterranean sea
The coast guard ship Diciotti and the Topaz, a ship run by humanitarian group Migrant Offshore Aid Station, are part of the effort.
Migrants stranded in derelict warehouse as Hungary reinforces Serbia border fence
Hungary is building a second 'intelligent' fence equipped with heat and motion sensors and night-vision cameras along its border with Serbia.
Aerial photos of the Calais Jungle camp before and after demolition
Bulldozers have flattened the ramshackle huts and tents that had been home to about 6,000 people.
Riot police swoop on migrant camp near Stalingrad metro station in Paris
Officials say the numbers living and sleeping rough in the area have swollen by about a third since the evacuation of the Jungle.
Calais Jungle camp is gone, leaving poignant traces of its hopeful residents
Nearly 6,000 migrants have been bused around France, leaving behind the possessions accumulated during their time in the camp.
Workers use sledgehammers to demolish Calais Jungle migrant camp
'Jungle' had been home to more than 6,000 people, most of them hoping to reach Britain.
Refugees begin leaving Calais Jungle camp after night of protests
The authorities are carrying out a complex operation, unprecedented in Europe, to shut down the makeshift camp.
Dismantling Calais Jungle and relocating migrants 'won't work' say French charities
'Reception and orientation centres' where refugees can apply for aslum will open but charities forecast they will try to get to the UK instead.
Over 10,000 refugees and migrants rescued in 48 hours, trying to reach European shores
Smugglers took advantage of calm waters to launch vessels crowded with refugees who pay them in the hope of reaching Europe.
Calais Jungle to be shut down 'with method and determination' by end of 2016
At least 10,000 refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are currently living in the Calais camp.
Shipwrecked refugees detained in Egypt after boat capsizes in Med leaving 43 dead
Those on board were Egyptian, Eritrean, Sudanese and Somalian, although it was not clear where the boat was travelling to.
Fire destroys Lesbos refugee camp leaving thousands stranded
Residents could be seen wandering through the ashes and remains of tents, trailers and containers in which they once lived.
Beautiful photos of a Somali wedding in a Mogadishu refugee camp
"Life is about who you marry, not the type of home you live in."
Calais: Hundreds block major highway in protest against 'Jungle' camp
Tensions among locals have increased after the population of the camp rose to at least 7,000 people.
Half a million children around Lake Chad face severe acute malnutrition
A drought and a seven-year insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram is a disastrous pairing.
Dramatic photos show EU migrant crisis scenes in the Balkans in 2015 and 2016
Compare and contrast scenes of the Balkan migrant crisis over the past two years.
African migrants hoping to reach US wait in makeshift camp at the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border
Refugee camp is located in Penas Blancas on the official border crossing into Costa Rica.
World Refugee Day 2016: 60 powerful photos of desperate families trying to reach safety
Every day, thousands of families are forced to flee war and violence, leaving everything behind – except their hopes and dreams for a safer future.
Refugee crisis: Migrants risk dangerous Mediterranean sea crossing after Turkey-Greece route is closed
The European Union deal with Turkey has affected the flow of people who have been able to reach Greece.
Idomeni: Refugees at Greek camp moved to state-supervised facilities
Government officials report that 1,110 people had left the camp.
Greece: Daily life inside Malakasa refugee camp
As conditions in refugee camps worsen, the relocation target of 20,000 asylum seekers has been virtually ignored.
Refugee crisis: Daily lives of unaccompanied children in Calais Jungle hoping to reach Britain
There are 294 unaccompanied children living in the Calais refugee camp, with further 129 unaccounted for.