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The Nigerien army patrols the Sahara desert targetting militant groups including ISIL and Boko Haram.

ISIL continues to pose a ‘serious challenge’ worldwide – UN counter-terror chief

23 August 2018
Peace and Security
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An injured girl is being treated at Althawra Hospital in Hudaydah, Yeman. She was injured along with her brothers and her uncle, while the family was trying to relocate farther from the fighting that same day in Aljah area, Bait Alfaqih district. (2018).

Senior UN children’s advocate says they ‘should never be targeted by violence’

17 August 2018
Peace and Security
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A family displaced by fighting in the village of Shora, 25 kilometres south of Mosul, Iraq, walk towards an army checkpoint on the outskirts of Qayyarah. Photo: UNHCR/Ivor Prickett

UN chief urges governments to shield more civilians from violence in conflict

22 May 2018
Peace and Security
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General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák (centre) chairs high-level meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. He is flanked by Secretary-General Guterres (left) and Catherine Pollard, USG for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Management.

World leaders gather at UN to renew commitment to build and sustain peace

24 April 2018
Peace and Security
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A mother, displaced with her family, feeds her 18-month-old daughter at a shelter in a village rural Damascus. (file)

Hunger continues to intensify in conflict zones, UN agencies report to Security Council

29 January 2018
Humanitarian Aid
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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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António Guterres, Secretary-General-designate, speaks to journalists at the General Assembly stakeout following his appointment by acclamation to serve as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.

INTERVIEW: 'A surge in the diplomacy for peace would be my priority' – UN Secretary-General-designate

19 October 2016
UN Affairs
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presents his annual report on the work of the Organization at the opening of the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-first session.

Opening Assembly debate, Ban calls on world leaders ‘act now,’ work together for a better future

20 September 2016
SDGs
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At a port in Greece, a young boy and his family join other refugees and migrants trying to board a bus that will transport them to the centre of Athens. UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis

2015 in pictures: a review of some of the year’s major developments

23 December 2015
SDGs
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Lisa Buttenheim, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).

“It’s so valuable to have women on the ground, whether as a civilian or in a uniformed position” – Lisa Buttenheim

28 October 2015
Women
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