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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.

COVID-19: The virus that shut down the world

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.

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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Photo story: UN spotlights learning crisis ahead of key summit

A young girl writes on a blackboard at a UNICEF-supported school in central Tigray, Ethiopia.

Young girls sit together and study outside a UNICEF-supported school in central Tigray, Ethiopia.

Girls in the Jean Vcolmomb school in Bangui, Central African Republic.

While over half of Niger’s children aged seven to 16 are not in school, this boy is studying with his tablet in Radi school, in the village of Safi, in the South of Niger.

Crisis-affected children and adolescents in Lebanon face educational challenges.

A UNICEF-supported teacher provides children with psychosocial support sessions at an integrated learning centre in east rural Aleppo, Syria.

Survivors of Afghanistan's devastating earthquake in June 2022 attend class at a UNICEF-supported education centre in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.

Thirty-three thousand children with disabilities attend special schools in Cuba, including Cristian (third left) who has an intellectual disability and attends an elementary school in Moa, Holguín.

Richard Guimaraes Canayo studies at the Educativa Alfonso Ugarte-B secondary school in Ucayali district of Masisea, Peru.

Photo story: No country untouched by human trafficking

Munni was married at age 14, but after her husband left when she became pregnant, the Bangladeshi girl was sold to a brothel by a man who offered to find her a job.

Displaced girls like 11-year-old Anastasia, seen here leaving the Sighetu Marmației border crossing on a bus in northern Romania, are at particular risk.

In Gabon’s Government-owned centre for children in difficulty and at risk, UNICEF supports the youngest victims of trafficking and illegal migration.

From child marriage to human trafficking, 18-year-old UNICEF-Reporter Rifa uses a computer tablet to raise awareness of the dangers that girls face, in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, in Bangladesh.

While walking home from school in Yoro, Honduras, the 13-year-old girl in the middle was grabbed, thrown into a van, beaten, raped and released one hour later.

UNICEF works in Niger to care for children on the move and at risk from traffickers, offering family tracing and reunification services, temporary care, and psychosocial support.

Life after Conflict: Home, land, and identity

Ushangi sits at home in a village near Khurvalti, in Georgia.

Three young women displaced by the 2008 conflict in the Republic of Georgia stand outside a psychosocial support centre in an IDP settlement in Shavshvebi.

Elene, who lives in an IDP settlement in Karaleti, Georgia, looks at a photograph of her former home in South Ossetia.

Nanuli works in the fields behind her home in Karaleti, Georgia.

Elguja tends to his farm animals in his makeshift barn in an IDP settlement in Karaleti, Georgia.

Abel watches his granddaughter, Barbara, inside their home in the Tserovani displacement settlement in the Republic of Georgia. Barbara was born in displacement.

Children play games outside a community centre in Shavshvebi. The centre provides support services and activities for displaced children in Georgia.

Kindergarten students make chorchella, a traditional Georgian snack of grape paste and walnuts, during an autumn celebration in an IDP settlement in Tsilkani, Georgia.

Life after Conflict – Leadership and support

Okello (centre), a community leader in northern Uganda.

Aicha, the head of Nessemon, a widows’ advocacy group in Côte d’Ivoire, sits with her granddaughter inside their home.

Lia, founder of a war museum dedicated to the 2008 war in Georgia.

Mr. Basile teaches his students the lesson of tolerance and non-violence at a school in Bangui, Central African Republic...

Madona, founder of an organization supporting IDP women in Georgia.

Chantal, coordinator of the Planète Femmes NGO in the Central African Republic.

Okello (centre), a community leader in northern Uganda, is trained to de-escalate conflict.

Life after Conflict – Reparations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ruta and Rebecca in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Baudouin, a carpenter who was displaced in the conflict.

Dorika, a survivor of rape in conflict North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Erik was injured during a conflict in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Maria, a survivor of violence in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Obed, from Ituria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, lost everything he owned because of conflict.

A former child soldier from Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Life after Conflict – Family and connection

Marceline supported by her friend in Central African Republic.

Marceline lives alone in a rented home in Damala quarter near the Bangui airport, Central African Republic.

Gervais and his family have lived in Boy Rabe, Central African Republic all their lives.

Gervais continues to work as a carpenter in his neighbourhood, making chairs, window and door frames for the people in his neighbourhood.

Elodie was 17 years old in 2002 when on her way to her aunt's home in Duekue when the city became under attack by armed militias.

Elodie's family at the doorstep of their home in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Charles Telengou is a taxi-motor driver and student, originally from Ndjo 210 km from Bangui, Central African Republic.

As seen here, Charles works as a taxi-motor driver till late in the night in Bangui, Central African Republic, to support his family.

Elise's neighbourhood was under siege when two men in military fatigues brutalized and raped her.

Photo Story: Protecting Fiji’s Coral Coast

Coral reef rope nursery in Korolevu-i-Wai District, Fiji.

Victor Bonito (left) at Rope nursery in Korolevu-i-Wai District, Fiji.

Coral nursery, Fiji.

Junior at Rope nursery in Korolevu-i-Wai District, Fiji.

Thriving coral in Fiji.

Women of Namada village, Maria Silovate (left) and Luisa Adi Caginatoba Kinisimere.

Orisi (right) and his 5-year old son, Semesa Francis Seniucidromo.

Orisi Seniucudromo walking on the coast near Namada village.

Photo Story: Asian countries collaborate to fight illegal wildlife trade

Indian elephants crossing, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India.

Bengal tiger on the move, Tadoba National Park, India.

The construction of livestock corrals helps protect livestock and mitigates HWC.

Primary forest, Danum valley, Borneo, Malaysia.

Illegal wildlife operation by the Directorate of Forest Protections staff, Directorate General of Law Enforcement on Environment and Forestry, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

Baby and mother orangutan, Taman National Park, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Illegal Wildlife Trade, Wildlife crime investigation training workshop.

Forest ranger Patrol in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia.

Photo Story: The Ukrainian Doctors Who Never Gave Up

Doctor Maksym.

The battered Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has become a leitmotif of the war: the city hospital was constantly under fire.

Each mobile clinic is comprised of one doctor, one nurse and a psychologist. Mobile clinic primary health services include consultations, screening and referral for diseases (including COVID-19), and other services.

Most of the patients are women, children, and elderly people often suffering from chronic illnesses. The initiative is a lifeline for those displaced.

The psychologists working with IOM’s implementing partner conduct individual and group counselling, alongside mental health awareness sessions.

One day Olena found space on an evacuation train, but even then, she and her children nearly lost their lives when an attack targeted a railway station as they passed through.

Olena now works alongside Maksym in an IOM mobile clinic in the town of Belz bordering Poland in western Ukraine.

Medical professionals like Maksym and Olena have risked their lives to help individuals whose health has been threatened by the war.