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Dennis Francis, President of the General Assembly opens the general debate.

UN once again centre stage for world diplomacy

Leaders from around the world returned to the New York Headquarters of the United Nations for the first fully in-person high-level week at the 78th session of the General Assembly since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ukraine: Snapshots of a war

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, which is a World Heritage Historic Centre has been damaged by shelling.

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

UN peacekeepers stand guard in Ménaka in southeastern Mali.

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.

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

A member of the MONUC’s South African parachute battalion on patrol duties around the village of Ntamugenga.

South African peacekeepers take part in a military exercise in Burundi’s Bujumbura province.

South African women peacekeepers who served with the UN – African Union Mission in Darfur (UNMAMID) celebrate their national Women’s Day in Kutum, North Darfur.

Commissioner Paneras celebrates the opening of two new classrooms for a secondary school for displaced girls living at the Zam Zam camp in North Darfur.

South African medical personnel serving with MONUSCO take part in a female engagement patrol to gather information on the security situation facing the local civilian population.

South African peacekeepers serving with MONUSCO partner with local organizations to provide medical and nutritional care to orphans in North Kivu province.

Members of MONUSCO’s South African Aviation Unit stand in formation at a ceremony at which they will be awarded the UN Medal for their service to peacekeeping before they return to their family and friends back home.

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.

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening of the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 77th session.

Csaba Kőrösi (right), President of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, speaks with Secretary-General António Guterres ahead of the opening of seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly.

Journalists wait outside UN Headquarters during the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly Debate.

Angelique Kidjo, Grammy Award-winning singer and Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF, performs during the opening of the Leaders Day of the Transforming Education Summit.

Youth participants working on a group activity during a breakout session of the Transforming Education Summit.

Blue Man Group performs during the International Day of Peace youth observance held on the theme

A wide view of the General Assembly Hall as Amanda Gorman (on screens and at podium), poet and activist from the United States, addresses the SDG Moment.

The daughter of Nayib Armando Bukele, President of the Republic of El Salvador, in the General Assembly Hall, as her father addresses the debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session.

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.