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UN Secretary-General António Guterres meets Iraq's Prime Minister in Baghdad.

Guterres stresses UN commitment to Iraq during first visit in 6 years

The Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, is in Iraq for the first time in six years, expressing support for the country’s people, the new Government and its ambitious reform agenda.

Seagrass meadows - expanses of green, grass-like shoots and flowers - are a hugely effective nature-based solution to climate change.

First-ever World Seagrass Day focuses on conservation

The Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed meets students at the Pays-Bas school in Niamey, Niger.

In Niger, UN deputy chief highlights power of partnership to forge schools for the future

A group of men meet at a centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, which promotes HIV self-testing.

Repealing laws targeting people living with HIV/AIDS saves lives

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UN human rights chief calls on all nations to abolish death penalty

UN officials call for Security Council’s support for post-quake Syria

Afghanistan still a grave humanitarian crisis, senior aid official says

Solidarity, leadership and commitment needed to reach 2030 development goals: Mohammed

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Ambassadors Yoka Brandt of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (left) and Jonibek Ismoil Hikmat of the Republic of Tajikistan at UN Headquarters in New York. Their countries are co-hosts of the 2023 UN Water Conference.

INTERVIEW: Turn the tide on water crisis with game-changing commitments, urge co-hosts of UN conference

Security Council Meets on Maintenance of Peace and Security of Ukraine

PODCAST: Top UN official in Ukraine reflects on a year of war and suffering

Beth Bechdol is Deputy Director-General at the UN's Food and Agriculture, (FAO).

One year since Russian invasion, concerns grow over global food affordability

Laila Baker UNFPA Arab States Regional Director, visits Aleppo, Syria following the catastrophic earthquake

Syrian women demand peace, as hope crumbles along with quake-struck buildings

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February 24, 2023 marks a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine: ‘Calling it a crisis seems so insignificant compared to everyday reality on the ground’: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

Humanitarian Aid The people of Ukraine remain resilient a year since Russia’s 24 February 2022 invasion but “humanitarian aid is as necessary as ever,” according to the UN’s most senior official in the country.

A rescue dog searches for survivors of the earthquake in Antakya, Hatay, Türkiye.

‘No words’ to explain people’s suffering in Türkiye: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

IOM’s Johannes Fromholt helps to unload relief items in Kurakhove in central Ukraine.

First Person: The towns in Ukraine which no longer exist

Young children in conflict-affected Bol, Chad study science at school.

Dreams in crisis: Children send world leaders postcards from the edge

Carnival is one of the cultural highlights of the year in Trinidad.

Caribbean carnival performers take stage to fight COVID disinformation

Photo Stories

Members of the MONUC’s South African parachute battalion disembark from a military vehicle for patrol duties around the village of Ntamugenga.

Photo Story: South African peacekeepers display courage and compassion wherever they serve

South Africa first provided peacekeepers to the United Nations in 1999 when it joined the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). It has been a consistent contributor ever since. Today, South Africa provides 1,189 military and police personnel to UN Peacekeeping making it the 15th largest contributor among all UN Member States. More than 1,100 still serve in the DR Congo with MONUSCO, the successor mission to MONUC.

Photo story: A watershed moment - transformation the key word at UNGA77

Staff work behind the scenes in the UNTV control room during the General Assembly’s annual general debate and associated high-level meetings.

2022 in Photos: Struggle, recovery and hope

Displaced children living in a camp in Djugu, which was visited by Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, during his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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High-school student Nanako Wachi, inventor of a novel wheelchair that easily moves over steps, with a WIPO Award received for her invention. (file)

Patent filings hit a record high in 2022, UN agency reveals

Economic Development International demand for patents hit a record high last year, as innovators in China, the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Germany, sought to protect their inventions, said the UN agency that polices the process worldwide, on Tuesday.

A mother and her 10 children moved to a refugee camp in Kenya in March 2022 after drought ravaged her crops and livestock back in Somalia.

Refugee agency appeals for $137 million to help displaced in Horn of Africa

Humanitarian Aid Lifesaving aid is needed urgently to help millions of people enduring one of the longest and most severe droughts on record in the Horn of Africa, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday, as the region enters its sixth consecutive rainy season with no rain.

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