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A street lined with rubble and destroyed buildings in the Old City area of Homs, Syria.

UN envoy sets 25 January as target date to begin intra-Syrian peace talks

26 December 2015
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Special Representative and head of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) Parfait Onanga-Anyanga (red tie) and members of the diplomatic corps visiting a storage site for voting materials at Bangui airport on 23 December 2015.

Central African Republic polls now scheduled for 30 December, UN reports

24 December 2015
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Voters in the PK5 area of the capital Bangui after casting ballots in the Central African Republic referendum from 13 to 14 December 2015 on a new draft constitution for the country.

Central African Republic: ICC Prosecutor warns against election-related violence, atrocity crimes

23 December 2015
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A migrant worker on his bicycle in Tianjin, China.

Some 150 million migrants now participating in global workforce – new UN labour agency report

16 December 2015
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Destroyed buildings line a street – which is flooded with algae-covered, debris-filled water – in the Old City area of Homs, the capital of Homs Governorate, Syria.

Ceasefire in Homs has 'great value' in showing a nationwide truce in Syria is possible – UN envoy

11 December 2015
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Special Representative Martin Kobler briefs the press after a two-day meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue in Tunis, Tunisia.

Libyan parties set 16 December as date to sign political agreement – UN envoy

11 December 2015
Peace and Security
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Dr. David Nabarro, Special Envoy on Ebola, at a press conference in New York in November 2015.

"We’ve learnt many lessons from this outbreak and from the response" – Dr. David Nabarro, Special Envoy on Ebola

10 December 2015
Health
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Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of the City of Paris and Michael R. Bloomberg, the UN Secretary-Generals Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, co-host the Climate Summit for Local Leaders on the margins of the UN climate change conference. 4 December 2015.

COP21: in Paris, mayors and celebrities join UN launch of report on boosting investment towards climate smart cities

4 December 2015
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Thirty per cent of all deaths from foodborne diseases are in children under the age of 5 years, despite the fact that they make up only nine per cent of the global population.

Children under five account for one third of deaths from foodborne diseases – new UN report

3 December 2015
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ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao addresses the 13th World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS 2015) in Hiroshima, Japan.

Some 3.2 billion people now online, but number still falls short of Internet target – UN report

30 November 2015
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