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In Landmannalaugar, Iceland (pictured) clean air is important for the health and day-to-day lives of people.

Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change

The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution.

Men work at an apartment building in Poltava, a city in central Ukraine, that was damaged in an attack.

UNICEF renews school protection call in Ukraine amid ‘deadly reality’ of attacks

The glacier graveyard is located close to the Icelandic capital Reykjavik.

Climate change: ‘Graveyard of glaciers’ lays bare existential threat of melting ice

A young woman walks through Kadugli town, South Kordofan state of Sudan, where sexual abuse is 'rampant', rights investigators said.

Sudan war: Rights probe demands wider arms embargo to end ‘rampant’ abuse

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Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza

UN leads search for synergy on climate and development

Mpox: Equitable vaccine access crucial for Global South

Millions impacted by ‘catastrophic and massive floods’ in Bangladesh

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A view of the Eduardo Kobra mural at UN Headquarters.

Planning ahead: 5 things to know about the UN’s landmark Summit of the Future

Enough is Enough: End Nuclear Testing Once and For All

UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with Jose Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste in Dili.

In Timor-Leste, Guterres celebrates past unity and looks to the future

Foreign Minister Musa Timothy Kabba (right) of Sierra Leone and Director-General at Geneva Tatiana Valovaya during an informal visit of UN Security Council members to the Palais des Nations.

The Geneva Conventions: ‘Rules of war’ saved me, says former child soldier

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UNRWA works every day to provide critical services across the Gaza Strip, including flour distribution to support the Gazan population.

Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza

Humanitarian Aid From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in war-torn Gaza.

Ferial, a grandmother took her two granddaughters to Deir El Balah health center to get polio vaccination.

Between fear and hope, Gazans line up in their thousands to protect their children from polio

People in Timor-Leste observe voting during the August 1999 referendum.

In battle for development ‘you can count on us’, Guterres tells Timor-Leste, marking 25 years of self-determination

Children in the Pacific Ocean island of Tuvalu play at a coastal area protected by sandbags.

What is sea level rise and why does it matter to our future?

Families embrace as they agree to end a decades-long feud.

Tears and embraces as murderous 30-year family feud comes to an end in the Philippines

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Voters in Timor Leste celebrate their right to vote in the 30 August 1999 referendum on self-rule.

Timor-Leste’s 25-year-long path to freedom and democracy

The Southeast Asian country, Timor-Leste is celebrating 25 years since a referendum which freed its people from occupation by Indonesia.

Over 98 per cent of people who were registered to vote cast their ballots in the historic referendum.

Searching for safety in Gaza

Many Gazans who fled to Rafah are now on the move again.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

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The number of people experiencing extreme hunger has surged in 2024. Pictured here, a displaced family in Sudan.

Catastrophic hunger doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan worst hit

Humanitarian Aid The number of people experiencing catastrophic hunger has surged more than twofold in 2024, due largely to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, according to new figures released by the UN on Thursday.

Sigrid Kaag, Senior Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction in Gaza, administers a dose of the polio vaccine to a child in Gaza.

Gaza: Polio vaccination campaign moves to southern areas

Health The second phase of a two-round campaign to vaccinate over half a million young children in Gaza against polio began in Khan Younis on Thursday, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

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