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Girls walk along the road in a Hazara neighborhood in Afghanistan. The religious minority has been the target of frequent attacks by ISIL terrorists and others.

Stamp out hate speech, persecution based on faith: Guterres

Online hate is often a driver of violent physical attacks against religious minorities, said the UN chief on Tuesday, calling on governments, community and religious leaders, to “speak out against hate and incitement to violence.”

The installation of a solar de-flouridation unit plant by the government of Rajasthan in Sagwada is helping Jiya, and her seven-year-old daughter, who suffer from early symptoms of fluorosis.

Water Action Agenda takes shape in Stockholm flowing on from landmark conference

Israeli-Palestinian death toll highest since 2005: UN envoy

Civilians in Mosul, Iraq, following a suicide car bombing (file photo).

UN honours survivors of terrorism working for peace

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Rights expert urges India to release detained activist

Bridging troubled waters amid deluge, drought in the US

Champion woman boxer knocks out hate in Central America

Guterres condemns assault against UN peacekeepers in Cyprus

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Blessing Kasasi, aged 15, is a women's and children's rights activist.

Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

Over the past few years, thousands of families have fled violence in Nigeria and have settled in Niger.

UN will stay and deliver critical services to people of Niger, UNICEF pledges

Food aid is delivered by boat in Bor in South Sudan.

Sudan: ‘No regard for civilians’ lives’, warns senior aid worker

UNEP Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh swims in front of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour (file).

UNEP oceans advocate Lewis Pugh on epic Hudson swim to highlight importance of clean rivers

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The United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, was destroyed by a truck bomb on August 19, 2003.

First Person: ‘A piece of me also died’ in 2003 UN Canal Hotel bombing

Peace and Security The widow of a UN staff member who died in the terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq has been describing how “a piece of me also died on that tragic day.”

A female beneficiary of a UNODC alternative development project feeding her chickens in Dogabad village, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghans are ‘out of options’ and desperately need realistic alternatives to poppy cultivation

A farmer tends her crops on a peatland area in coastal West Kalimantan.

From ashes to riches: Profiting from peatland in Indonesia

Aorn receives a massage at the Khon Wai Sai centre in northern Thailand.

International Youth Day: Battling the stigmatization of teen pregnancy in Thailand

A mother, holding her two-year-old in the southwest of Côte d'Ivoire, discovered that she was seropositive during her pregnancy.

Real influencers: Faith leaders find ‘hidden’ children living with HIV

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UN peacekeepers stand guard in Ménaka in southeastern Mali.

UN ‘blue helmets’: 75 years of service and sacrifice

Over the last 75 years, more than 2 million peacekeepers have served in 71 operations across myriad complex and fragile political, security, and humanitarian landscapes. These “blue helmets” are the “beating heart of our commitment to a more peaceful world”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, marking the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, observed on 29 May.

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Patients are treated for COVID-19 at a hospital in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. (file)

2022 in Photos: Struggle, recovery and hope

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.

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A truck bomb destroyed the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad on 19 August 2003.

First Person: Iraqis ‘not abandoned’ after 2003 attack on UN Baghdad

Peace and Security A senior political affairs officer at the United Nations has described how the sacrifice of colleagues who died in the attack on the UN offices at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003, has been acknowledged by the UN’s continued presence in the country.

Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

Peace and Security With smartphones, editing apps, and innovative approaches, some UN peacekeeping operations across the world are building a “digital army” aimed at combating mis- and disinformation on social media networks and beyond.

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