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Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, briefs the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security.

Top UN official urgently calls for de-escalating nuclear tensions over Belarus

Urgent efforts must be made to de-escalate the situation following Russia’s announcement last weekend that it plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, the UN disarmament chief warned the Security Council on Friday.

A person walks through a camp in Hatay, Türkiye, for people displaced by the February earthquake.

Türkiye, Syria quake response continues, food security threat rising

A child walks in Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria. (file)

‘Bring them home’: UN experts call for repatriating detained Syria children

A job fair promoting employment equity in New Delhi in March 2023.

UNAIDS launches campaign to advocate for rights of transgender children

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Greater protection needed for Palestinians amid rising violence, annexation threat

Women in peacekeeping: UN Fund calls for new ideas and investment

Zero Waste Day: UN calls for a war on garbage

Guatemala: Türk alarmed by reprisals against anti-corruption officials

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Seeds from IAEA and FAO laboratories were sent to space in November 2022.

Cosmic crops poised for harvest on Earth

A colourized photograph of the family of Tokuso Hamai, taken before the Second World War.

Rebooting memories of life before the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima

A young girl cooks in a rural village in Ethiopia, where the land has been affected by recurrent droughts.

UN Water Conference: ‘we need a renewed sense of action’

Poet Pacifique Akilimali of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigerian peace activist and poet Maryam Abu Hassan.

Young poets lend their talents to promote peace, marking the 75th anniversary of UN peacekeeping

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Fadlun Arrayyan Bonde (Ega), community ranger at Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park.

First Person: The Indonesian power ranger

Women Conservation jobs are scarce in the leafy village of Toraut, Indonesia, so when 27-year-old Fadlun Arrayan Bonde returned from university, she answered a call for women to help to patrol the neighbouring national park. She ended up forging a dynamic new career path to protect nature while transforming her community.

Mina Guli (centre with white cap) at UN Headquarters in New York, at the end of her 200th marathon campaign, raising awareness about the need for clean water and sanitation for all.

Running 200 marathons towards a global water solution

Pupils at Independence Avenue 1&2 Junior High School in Accra, Ghana, hold origami hummingbirds, as part of the World Water Day 2023 campaign.

Origami hummingbirds to make a splash at UN Water Conference

Young girls walk home from school in São Tomé and Príncipe.

INTERVIEW: São Tomé and Príncipe readies for graduation day

Former practitioners of female genital mutilation in The Gambia

INTERVIEW: ‘Every other young girl you see in The Gambia has undergone female genital mutilation’

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Displaced children living in a camp in Djugu, which was visited by Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, during his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

2022 in Photos: Struggle, recovery and hope

In 2022, the UN and the world were partially recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic: the Security Council and General Assembly met in person, and senior officials travelled. The UN’s photographers were with them to capture the scene.

Photo Story: South African peacekeepers display courage and compassion wherever they serve

Members of the MONUC’s South African parachute battalion disembark from a military vehicle for patrol duties around the village of Ntamugenga.

Photo story: A watershed moment - transformation the key word at UNGA77

Staff work behind the scenes in the UNTV control room during the General Assembly’s annual general debate and associated high-level meetings.

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Children play on a jetty on Fale Island in the Pacific Ocean archipelago of Tokelau.

General Assembly votes to seek World Court’s opinion, in quest for ‘bolder’ climate action

Climate and Environment The UN General Assembly will seek the opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on countries’ obligations to address climate change, following the adoption by consensus of a resolution on Wednesday.

Afghanistan: OHCHR alarm over arrests of activists speaking up for women and girls

Human Rights The de facto Taliban authorities in Afghanistan must immediately release activists detained for advocating for girls’ and women’s rights, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Wednesday, expressing alarm over ongoing arrests.

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