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25-Dec-2020

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

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

Humanitarian Aid
The Sustainable Development Goals projected onto UN Headquarters, New York.

PODCAST SPECIAL: Nations United, hosted by Julia Roberts

The Lid is On

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

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

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

Health
A lightning storm as seen from Istria, Croatia.

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

Climate and Environment
Jamila Mahdi, Human Rights Officer at UNAMI, Kurdistan Iraq.

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

Interviews

GA75 Finale Wrap

Two friends support LGBT rights on Gay Pride Day in New York City (2018).

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

Human Rights
The low-lying island nation, Tuvalu, in the Pacific Ocean is particularly susceptible to higher sea levels caused by climate change.

Solidarity through song: Tongan musician hails Pacific Unite Concert

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.

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

Humanitarian Aid
Goods donated after disaster in Vanuatu.

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

Interviews
In 2019, Ethiopia experienced the fifth-worst food crisis of all the countries on earth.

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

Humanitarian Aid
President elect of the 75th Session of the General Assembly, H.E. Volkan Bozkir.

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

UN Affairs
Keran Wang, Chief of Space Applications Section, ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division of ESCAP

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

Interviews

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

Women
Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan, seventy-sixth President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

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

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.

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

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

UN peacekeepers stand with Lebanese in aftermath of Beirut blast

Interviews