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Conflicts, drought drive hunger despite strong global food supply – UN agriculture agency

7 December 2017
SDGs
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Internally displaced women and children at a World Food Programme (EFP) center in Mogadishu, Somalia. Thousands of people poured into the Somali capital in mid-2017 in search for food and water at the severe drought takes hold in remote rural regions. Photo by Giles Clarke for Getty/OCHA

UN relief wing appeals for record $22.5 billion in aid for 2018

1 December 2017
Humanitarian Aid
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A delegate casts his country’s ballot during the General Assembly’s election of 15 members of the UN Human Rights Council for three-year terms beginning on 1 January 2018.

General Assembly elects new members to UN Human Rights Council

16 October 2017
Human Rights
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Nobel Laureate and UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai sits down for an interview with UN News during the high-level session of the General Assembly.

INTERVIEW: In fighting for girls’ education, UN advocate Malala Yousafzai finds her purpose

5 October 2017
Culture and Education
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Secretary-General António Guterres presents his annual report on the work of the Organization ahead of the opening of the General Assembly’s seventy-second general debate.

Repair ‘world in pieces’ and create ‘world at peace,’ UN chief Guterres urges global leaders

19 September 2017
SDGs
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The Secretary-General meets South Sudanese refugees during a visit to Imvepi settlement in northern Uganda in June 2017.

INTERVIEW: UN must lead ‘surge in diplomacy’ for peace, Guterres says ahead of 72nd General Assembly

8 September 2017
UN Affairs
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Health workers vaccinate a child in a medical centre in Al-Radwanieh village, rural Aleppo.

Health services, especially vaccines, must ‘reach the unreached,’ stress UN agencies

17 July 2017
Health
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Author Per J. Andersson (left), Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia (center) and Charlotte von Schedvin at a book launch event at in celebration of International Day of Happiness at the United Nations in New York.

PODCAST: Biking from India to Sweden for love – a tale of happiness

13 April 2017
Culture and Education
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Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous speaks to journalists in Bamako, Mali, during his visit.

INTERVIEW: Fast-response ‘vanguard brigade’ of peacekeepers now a reality

4 April 2017
Peace and Security
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In Afghanistan, bakeries prepare a special type of cookie, called “Kulcha-e Nowrozi,” which is only baked for Nowruz. Other special dishes include “Haft Mewa,” a fruit salad made from seven different dried fruits, and “Samanak” made by women in a special ceremony that includes singing.

Nowruz a reminder that heritage helps make resilient, sustainable societies – UN cultural agency

21 March 2017
Culture and Education
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