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UN Photo/Albert González Farran / Vehicles get caught in a traffic jam in the centre of Monrovia, Liberia. (January 2018) Authorities in Liberia, as well as businesses operating there, must…
Al Jazeera / Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh spent a quarter century covering life under Israeli military rule. A UN Human Rights Council-appointed probe into alleged rights violations in…
Unsplash/Neil Webb / People protest in London’s Trafalgar Square to support equality, women and human rights in Iran. Sixteen UN-appointed independent human rights experts encouraged Iranian authorities on Friday to stop…
UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau / Children wait to enter their classroom at a school in Burkina Faso. In a report issued on Tuesday, UN human rights experts outline how discrimination affects black…
UN News/Nargiz Shekinskaya / Istanbul, the largest city in Türkiye. Five UN-appointed independent human rights experts called on Tuesday for Türkiye to stop using counter-terrorism legislation to intimidate human rights defenders…
Unsplash/Simon Berger / Daily life in Cairo, Egypt. UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk on Tuesday appealed for Egypt to free a prominent blogger and activist whose life is…
Marwan Tahtah / the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter during his visit to Lebanon from 1-12 Novemeber 2021 Although the global cost-of-living crisis…
UNDRR/Chris Huby / Less than half of the Least Developed Countries and only one-third of Small Island Developing States have a multi-hazard early warning system. With climate-related disasters displacing more…
Unsplash/Tamara Menzi / Street traffic in Stockholm, Sweden. Sweden should step up efforts to fight systemic racism and focus on strategies to restore trust between police and minority groups, said…
UNICEF/Delil Souleiman / UNICEF-supported volunteers speak with a family about preventive measures to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Hassakeh, Syria. Throughout Syria’s civil war, women have risked their security…
UNICEF/Omar Sanadiki / A man sells oranges in Douma in Syria after the siege of the city was lifted in 2018. Throughout Syria’s civil war, women have risked their security…
Unsplash/Juanma Clemente-Alloza / The silhouette of the mountains in Sharm El-Sheikh, Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt This year’s UN Climate Conference takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, against a backdrop of…
UNFPA Kenya / Women attend a UNFPA-supported integrated community health outreach session on prevention and response to gender-based violence. Lokapararai village, Turkana county, Kenya. Women and girls are bearing the…
UN Photo/Mark Garten / UN Secretary-General António Guterres takes a pilot ship through the Marmara sea in Turkey to view the Brave Commander. Citing a raft of global challenges –…
UN Video/ Jessica Jiji / Eugenio Gastelum, the first-ever UN video game expert. Eugenio Gastelum has been obsessed with video games since he was a kid. And now, he’s managed…
UNEP/ Georgina Smith / A UNEP project is supporting the government of Zambia to improve water security at Mukubwe Primary School to tackle the impacts of drought. From devastating floods…
UN Photo/Evan Schneider / Csaba Kőrösi, President of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, chairs the first plenary meeting of the session. At left is Secretary-General António Guterres,…
UNICEF/Aldjim Banyo – The rivers Chari and Logone overflow in N’Djamena, after the heaviest rainy season in Chad in thirty years. Overwhelming flooding has affected at least 27.7 million children…
UN News/Nargiz Shekinskaya Istanbul, the largest city in Türkiye. Five UN-appointed independent human rights experts called on Tuesday for Türkiye to stop using counter-terrorism legislation to intimidate human rights defenders and…