2020 - Looking Back

25-Dec-2020

Highlights and top stories from our coverage over the past year

© UNICEF/Nicole Toutounji

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

9 July 2020
Humanitarian Aid
UN Photo/Cia Pak

PODCAST SPECIAL: Nations United, hosted by Julia Roberts

21 September 2020
The Lid is On
UNICEF/Peter Martell

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

9 October 2020
Peace and Security

PHOTO STORY: Humanitarian heroes on front line of COVID pandemic

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
WMO/Boris Baran

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

25 June 2020
Climate and Environment
Kawa Ibrahim

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

9 January 2020
Interviews

GA75 Finale Wrap

UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi

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

2 March 2020
Human Rights
UNDP Tuvalu/Aurélia Rusek

Solidarity through song: Tongan musician hails Pacific Unite Concert

13 August 2020
Interviews

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

IOM

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

2 June 2020
Humanitarian Aid
Vanuatu National Disaster Management Office

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

20 November 2020
Interviews
FAO/IFAD/WFP/Michael Tewelde

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

21 April 2020
Humanitarian Aid
UN Photo/Mark Garten

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

14 September 2020
UN Affairs
ESCAP/Suwat Chancharoensuk

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

18 November 2020
Interviews
© UNICEF/Albert Gonzalez Farran

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

6 April 2020
Women
UN Photo/Mark Garten

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

1 December 2020
Economic Development
UN News/Ana Carmo

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

8 June 2020
Interviews
UNIFIL

UN peacekeepers stand with Lebanese in aftermath of Beirut blast

5 August 2020
Interviews