Peace and Security

On 21 November, children and families who have just fled Mosul arrive in Khazir Displacement Camp, Ninewa Governorate.
UNICEF/Anmar

PHOTO FEATURE: Mosul – 100 days on, and the UN’s humanitarian response

24 January 2017
Middle East

Armed conflict in Iraq has caused the displacement of more than three million people since June 2014 – one million of those displaced may be as a direct result of the Iraqi military's efforts to liberate Mosul and surrounding areas from the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh), according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary-General's Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority from 2007 to 2015, on a visit to Gaza in November 2012.
UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan

INTERVIEW: Robert Serry on the ‘Endless Quest’ for Middle East peace, reflections from no man’s land

10 January 2017
Middle East

The United Nation’s former point person for Middle East negotiations has said that Israelis and Palestinians need at least the prospects of a two-state solution, and urged the international community to create conditions for more effective discussions in the future.

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
Global

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.