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Hundreds of voters in line outside the Sayed Jamaludin Afghan polling center in Ayno Mena, Kandahar for the Afghanistan parliametary elections. 27 October 2018.

Afghanistan: UN mission welcomes new polling dates following election delays

31 December 2018
Peace and Security
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A Zinnia plant pillow floats in zero-gravity, on board the International Space Station. The football pitch sized space platform was built through combined efforts European countries, represented by the European Space Agency; the US Space Agency, NASA; Japanese space agency, JAXA; Canadian space agency, CSA; and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.

THE COMMITTEES: From the colonies to the space race - past, present, future converge in Fourth Committee

28 December 2018
UN Affairs
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6 year old Rohingya refugee, Yasin, rests after arriving at a registration center for newly arrived Rohingya Refugees in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on 6 February 2018. His father says that they fled to Bangladesh after soldiers in Myanmar came to their house and beat his son when he was unable to tell them of his whereabouts.

Children suffering ‘atrocities’ as number of countries in conflict hits new peak: UNICEF

28 December 2018
Human Rights
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In this file photograph, taken ahead of the 2014 elections in Guinea-Bissau, civic education officials visit communities and explain voting procedures to local populations.

Guinea-Bissau needs ‘genuinely free and fair elections’ to break cycle of instability

27 December 2018
Peace and Security
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A wide view of the Security Council. (File photo)

UN Security Council urges continuous dialogue, transparency in DR Congo

22 December 2018
Peace and Security
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The Global Compact for Migration was adopted in the UNGA Vote: Favor 152 Against 5 Abstention 12

General Assembly officially adopts roadmap for migrants to improve safety, ease suffering

19 December 2018
Migrants and Refugees
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A NASA satellite image shows a vast alluvial fan blossoming across the landscape between the Kunlun and Altun mountain ranges that form the southern border of the Taklamakan Desert in China.

UN space-based tool opens new horizons to track land-use on Earth’s surface

12 December 2018
Economic Development
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An elderly patient receives rehabilitation care in Japan (file)

UN pushes for universal health care on International Day

12 December 2018
Health
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An Earth Council Flash Mob at COP24 in Poland to remind all negotiators and leaders that everything is moving too slow and that we have to take action now.

COP24 negotiations: Why reaching agreement on climate action is so complex

11 December 2018
Climate and Environment
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A passenger jet sits on a stand at an airport terminal.

On flight to sustainable development, ‘leave no country behind’, urges aviation agency

7 December 2018
SDGs
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