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School children take part in an activity to raise awareness about peacebuilding, with support from UNICEF's Learning for Peace programme.

Peacebuilding must be rooted in ‘bedrock of inclusive, sustainable development’

While describing maintaining peace as core to the UN – it's very reason for being - Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned the Security Council on Thursday that it was a mission now “under grave threat.”

A demolished home in Beit Sira village, Ramallah, in the central West Bank.

UN envoy ‘deeply alarmed’ over deaths of nine Palestinians in West Bank raid

Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group, ‘yet another blow to human rights’ in Russia: OHCHR

Home, belonging, and the Holocaust

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UN deputy chief reminds Taliban: Islam does not ban women from education

Human rights must be defended in the fight against terrorism: UN chief

Two-thirds of Yemenis need humanitarian support and protection

Sudan: Progress in Darfur militia leader trial, but Government cooperation wanes

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Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed briefs reporters on her recent trip to Afghanistan.

UN deputy chief reminds Taliban: Islam does not ban women from education

UNiting Against Hate episode 8: Does Costa Rica have the answers?

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres views products produced from UN climate resilience projects in Paúl Valley, Cabo Verde.

In drought-stricken Cabo Verde, UN chief finds hope for creating sustainable oasis

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A new chilli plantation in Inegena, Eastern Indonesia, has helped increase the income of farmers by 50 per cent in the last growing season.

Candlenuts, chilli and chickens: Transforming Indonesia’s rural economy

Economic Development A combination of determination, a vision, and UN support is transforming the fortunes of remote villages in underdeveloped regions of Eastern Indonesia, and boosting the livelihoods and prospects of local farmers.

Make-a-Wish recipient Kale Ilac, and his family at the UN General Assembly Hall

Fulfilling the UN dreams of Kale, a teenager battling cancer

Lutana Ribeiro is the only female chief of Parque das Tribos, an indigenous neighbourhood in Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state.

‘We are not afraid’: Indigenous Brazilian women stand up to gender violence

The Jewish cemetery of Fez, a symbol of cultural harmony

The UN Legal Identity project in Honduras has a special focus on Indigenous Peoples, LGBTQI+, minority population and persons with disabilities.

Proving who you are: addressing the plight of those with no legal identity

Photo Stories

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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Men sit on the sidewalk in Pakistan waiting to be hired for work.

Global growth forecast to slow to 1.9% in 2023, warn UN economists

Economic Development Senior UN economists warned on Wednesday that intersecting crises are likely to add further damage to the global economy, with growth set to slow from three per cent in 2022 to 1.9 per cent this year.

A family living in an informal settlement in Raqqa city, northeast Syria.

Security Council: 12 years of war, leaves 70 per cent of Syrians needing aid

Peace and Security Almost twelve years into Syria’s devastating civil war, the country remains tattered and deeply divided, facing massive economic hardships, limited political progress and the world’s largest displacement crisis, with 70 per cent of the population now in need of humanitarian aid, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday.

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