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Secretary-General António Guterres (fifth right) poses for a group photo with participants of the UN Holocaust Memorial Ceremony, on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Warning against rising intolerance, UN remembers Holocaust and condemns anti-Semitism

27 January 2017
Human Rights

Decrying the anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust, the international community today remembered millions of people who suffered in the genocide and honoured the survivors who continue to educate future generations about the ills that hatred and discrimination can bring.

Jewish people seeking visas in front of the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Photo/ NPO Chiune Sugihara Visas For Life

FEATURE: Story of Japan’s 'Schindler' offers lessons for tackling contemporary xenophobia

27 January 2017
Human Rights

During World War II, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat posted as an acting consul in Lithuania, disobeyed instructions from his own Government and issued visas for Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.

Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the Statistics Division in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and his staff.
UN Photo/Runa A.

FEATURE: Number crunchers in the spotlight ahead of UN World Data Forum

13 January 2017
SDGs

The first-ever United Nations World Data Forum is set to kick off in Cape Town, South Africa, on 15 January 2017, with the aim of increasing political and resource support for statistical capacity building worldwide.

A rocket with the Soil Moisture Active Passive observatory onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 2 in California, United States.
NASA/Bill Ingalls

INTERVIEW: Space technology can help create a better world – Simonetta Di Pippo, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs

13 January 2017
SDGs

The heads of national space agencies, government officials and representatives from the space community worldwide are being challenged to get more women into the aerospace industry.

António Guterres (centre) makes his first address to the Security Council as Secretary-General, on the issue of conflict prevention and sustaining peace. At right is Margot Wallström of Sweden, President of the Council for the month of January.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

At Security Council, UN chief Guterres makes case for new efforts to build and sustain peace

10 January 2017
Peace and Security

Delivering his first formal briefing to the Security Council, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres underlined the need for new, strengthened efforts to build and sustain peace ranging from prevention, conflict resolution and peacekeeping to peacebuilding and sustainable development.

If current trends continue, severe bleaching will occur every year on 99 per cent of the world's coral reefs within this century.
UNEP/Jerker Tamelander

Climate change will lead to annual coral bleaching, UN-supported study predicts

5 January 2017
Climate and Environment

If current trends continue and the world fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, nearly all of the world's coral reefs will suffer severe bleaching – the gravest threat to one of the Earth's most important ecosystems – on annual basis, the United Nations environment agency today reported.