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UNRWA and its partners continue the second round of a polio vaccination campaign in southern Gaza.

Gaza at a ‘critical juncture’ as top UN officials call for a ceasefire now

The UN Secretary-General has said the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar should lead to a swift end to the year-long war in Gaza, the release of all hostages and unimpeded delivery of aid, his Deputy Spokesperson told reporters on Friday.

Matthias Schmale, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine.

Ukraine: Humanitarian Coordinator highlights determination to ‘survive and rebuild’

UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld arrived in Leopoldville on 13 September 1961, upon invitation of Premier Cyrille Adoula, to discuss support to the Republic of the Congo. At his side is Premier Adoula.

Mystery still surrounds death of revered UN chief Hammarskjöld, 63 years after tragic plane crash

A woman cleans the floor of a destroyed building in Gaza.

Freedom of expression also under fire in Gaza war, rights expert says

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A UNIFIL logistical convoy passes near Houla, Lebanon in July 2024. (file)

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Hamish Young, UNICEF Senior Emergency Coordinator for Gaza.

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Mr. Kamal Kishore, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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Mystery still surrounds death of revered UN chief Hammarskjöld, 63 years after tragic plane crash

UN Affairs One of the most enduring mysteries in United Nations history – the 1961 plane crash that killed Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and all on board as he sought to broker peace in the Congo – will linger on, with a new assessment announced on Friday suggesting that “specific and crucial” information continues to be withheld by a handful of Member States.

Children share a small amount of food provided by the UN's World Food Programme.

WORLD FOOD DAY LIVE: Finding solutions to global hunger

UNIFIL peacekeepers patrol between Ras Naqoura and Labounieh along the Blue Line in southwestern Lebanon. (file)

Explainer: How UN peacekeepers meet the challenge of escalating conflict in Lebanon

‘Indescribable’ pain following year of war in Gaza

Security Council members and delegates huddle for a discussion after emerging from closed consultations following a meeting on the situation in the Middle East in December 2023. (file)

Explainer: The journey of a UN Security Council resolution

Photo Stories

The remains of a wristwatch found in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, records the moment of the atomic bomb explosion at 8:15am local time on 6 August 1945. (file)

Atomic bombs: The second the world changed

By Ariana Lindquist, Ann Sophie Persson and Eileen Travers

The Nobel Peace Prize was just awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bomb attacks launched by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Since then, the UN and groups like Nihon Hidankyo have helped to forge a path towards a nuclear-weapon-free world.

Faces of Gaza, one year on

The town of Khan Younis, like many areas of the Gaza Strip, has been decimated by the war.

Thousands descend on UN for busiest week of the year

Secretary-General António Guterres (on screen) addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session.

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More than 1.8 million people in Gaza face extreme levels of food insecurity, with families left with little to eat. (file)

Over 1.8 million in Gaza face extreme hunger

Peace and Security More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed and livelihoods decimated during the ongoing Israeli military offensive, a UN-backed food security assessment released on Thursday has revealed.

A family displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, lives in a tent on the roof of a former government building.

Nearly half the world’s 1.1 billion poor live in conflict settings

SDGs More than a billion people worldwide live in acute poverty and 40 per cent are in countries exposed to violent conflict, according to a UN-backed study published on Thursday.

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