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In Uruguay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (centre) alongside Commissioners from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, launches the Joint Action Mechanism on protection of human rights defenders in the Americas.
OHCHR South America

UN-Americas action plan seeks to strengthen protection of human rights defenders in region

26 October 2017
The United Nations human rights office and its counterpart in the Americas have launched a new and deeper cooperation plan to address one of the most pressing problems in that region – the protection of human rights defenders.
Graphic from the Saudi Communication and Media Center explaining that women are allowed to drive.
Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UN Gender Focus: Saudi Arabian women, human trafficking, and youth and development

28 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

UN chief: Saudi Arabian women’s right to drive “an important first step”

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The Peace Through Adult Literacy programme operates with the support from various organizations including the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
UN Photo/Harandane Dicko

Global problems need global solutions, UN officials tell ministers at development forum

17 July 2017
Opening the high-level segment of the annual forum designed to discuss implementation of the anti-poverty agenda, top United Nations officials today stressed the importance of multilateralism to address global problems.
A boy walks on a sand bank surrounding a refugee camp in M’bera, Mauritania.
UNICEF/Dragaj

UN and Africa: focus on West and Central Africa, tourism and Côte d’Ivoire

6 July 2017
UN and Africa

Over 7 million children crossing borders in West and Central Africa: UN

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This 9-year-old, the son of a pastor at the village church, was injured by unexploded ordnance two years ago in Ann Ka Law village, Kayin state in Myanmar.
UNICEF/Brown

Despite progress, life for children in Myanmar's remote areas remains a struggle, UNICEF warns

23 May 2017
The benefits of Myanmar's economic growth, reform and reconciliation efforts have not yet reached children in the country's remote, conflict-affected areas, leaving an estimated 2.2 million children in need of better humanitarian assistance, a United Nations report has revealed.
UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.
UNEP

General Assembly confirms appointment of Achim Steiner as new UN development chief

19 April 2017
The United Nations General Assembly today confirmed the appointment of Germany’s Achim Steiner as the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
Children reading a panegyric during a festival in Timbuktu, Mali.
UN Photo/Marco Dormino

Poetry gives us hope to scale and climb 'cloudy summits of our time' – UN cultural agency

21 March 2017
Poetry gives us hope, the United Nations cultural agency today said, lauding verse's ability to shake us from everyday life and remind us of the surrounding beauty and the resilience of the shared human spirit.