IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

25-Dec-2020

Highlights and top stories from our coverage over the past year

Jamaican reggae artist and musician Ziggy Marley pledges his support for 'Say Yes for Children' while visiting UN Headquarters, in July 2001.
© UNICEF/Nicole Toutounji

Reggae classic ‘One Love’ re-issued to help children upended by COVID crisis

9 July 2020
Humanitarian Aid
The Sustainable Development Goals projected onto UN Headquarters, New York.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

PODCAST SPECIAL: Nations United, hosted by Julia Roberts

21 September 2020
The Lid is On
A UN World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter delivers much-needed supplies to people in Udier, South Sudan.
UNICEF/Peter Martell

UN World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, as hunger mounts

9 October 2020
Peace and Security
Marie-Roseline Darnycka Bélizaire, an epidemiologiist with the World Health Organisation team tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, travels by helicopter to Butembo in the east of the country in January 2019.

PHOTO STORY: Humanitarian heroes on front line of COVID pandemic

UN News' May Yaacoub interviews UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
UN News/Ben Dotsei Malor

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Shortsighted and 'stupid mistake' not to support affordable COVID vaccine for all, says Guterres

15 September 2020
Health
A lightning storm as seen from Istria, Croatia.
WMO/Boris Baran

Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres, smashing records

25 June 2020
Climate and Environment
Jamila Mahdi, Human Rights Officer at UNAMI, Kurdistan Iraq.
Kawa Ibrahim

From child bride to UN human rights officer: one Iraqi woman’s journey

9 January 2020
Interviews

GA75 Finale Wrap

Two friends support LGBT rights on Gay Pride Day in New York City (2018).
UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi

Use of religious beliefs to justify rights violations must be outlawed says UN expert

2 March 2020
Human Rights
The low-lying island nation, Tuvalu, in the Pacific Ocean is particularly susceptible to higher sea levels caused by climate change.
UNDP Tuvalu/Aurélia Rusek

Solidarity through song: Tongan musician hails Pacific Unite Concert

13 August 2020
Interviews
Peacekeepers from Senegal serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) patrol sensitive areas in central Mali.

PHOTO STORY: 11 ways the UN makes the world a better place

A displaced family in Marib, Yemen, carries a winter aid package back to their shelter.
IOM

Yemen: ‘Hanging on by a thread’, UN chief requests funding to meet staggering humanitarian crisis

2 June 2020
Humanitarian Aid
Goods donated after disaster in Vanuatu.
Vanuatu National Disaster Management Office

‘Don’t let your kindness go to waste’, urges WFP

20 November 2020
Interviews
In 2019, Ethiopia experienced the fifth-worst food crisis of all the countries on earth.
FAO/IFAD/WFP/Michael Tewelde

As famines of ‘biblical proportion’ loom, Security Council urged to ‘act fast’

21 April 2020
Humanitarian Aid
President elect of the 75th Session of the General Assembly, H.E. Volkan Bozkir.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

INTERVIEW: The top diplomat shepherding the General Assembly through its 75th year

14 September 2020
UN Affairs
Keran Wang, Chief of Space Applications Section, ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division of ESCAP
ESCAP/Suwat Chancharoensuk

Space technology: Nations of Asia-Pacific combine forces in race for the stars

18 November 2020
Interviews
Woman holds her youngest daughter at the Wisdom Center in Juba's Gurei area in South Sudan after being beaten by her husband.
© UNICEF/Albert Gonzalez Farran

UN chief calls for domestic violence ‘ceasefire’ amid ‘horrifying global surge’

6 April 2020
Women
Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan, seventy-sixth President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
UN Photo/Mark Garten

INTERVIEW: Economic and Social Council ‘vital to promote global peace and global cooperation’

1 December 2020
Economic Development
The ocean covers 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, is the planet's largest biosphere, and home to up to 80 percent of all life in the world.
UN News/Ana Carmo

With a sick ocean, science is essential to create ‘motivation for action’

8 June 2020
Interviews
UN peacekeepers from France discuss their role in the rescue effort following an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
UNIFIL

UN peacekeepers stand with Lebanese in aftermath of Beirut blast

5 August 2020
Interviews