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A young boy is treated by a mobile emergency clinic team in Northern Gaza.

Retaliatory spiral in Middle East must end, says UN chief after reported strikes on Iran

Following reports of alleged Israeli strikes inside Iran near a nuclear power station early Friday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a new appeal to all parties to “stop the dangerous cycle of retaliation in the Middle East”.

People in West Darfur collect emergency food rations.

War in Sudan is ‘a crisis of epic proportions’ as atrocities abound

Rein Paulsen, Director of FAO's Office of Emergencies and Resilience, meets a farmer in Tobin, Sudan on 17 April, 2024.

Sudan: Famine risk is real, FAO warns

A teenage woman in Côte d'Ivoire holds up a solar panel which she is studying as part of a renewable energy course.

Mixed efforts to achieve energy goals highlighted at the end of Sustainability Week

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Rein Paulsen, Director of Office of Emergencies and Resilience, at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Real risk of famine in Sudan, warns senior FAO official

This automatic sound recording machine captured even the fastest spoken words in the 1940s. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: Retro cutting-edge tech at the UN

Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA at press conference in UN Geneva, Switzerland

Understanding ‘who’s vulnerable’, key to protect women in conflict

Sylvania Burton (l), President of Dominica, with Lorenzo Sanford, Chief of the Kalinago people

Indigenous Kalinago lead the way towards making Dominica ‘climate resilient’

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Every month, thousands of Sudanese people still migrate to nearby countries like South Sudan and Chad, forgotten and voiceless on an incredibly challenging journey, and nobody knows when it will end.

Rape, murder and hunger: The legacy of Sudan’s year of war

Humanitarian Aid Rape. Murder. Hunger. Corpses filling streets, making it impossible to walk. Sudan was plunged into an ongoing, devastating war one year ago on 15 April, leaving in its wake almost 15,000 dead, eight million civilians on the run, 25 million in dire need of assistance and warnings from humanitarians about famine, aid blockades and a growing list of atrocities on all sides.

A premature baby is fed in a hospital incubator.

Mother makes 200km emergency trip across rural Madagascar to save baby

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement is dedicated to fighting racism and anti-Black violence, especially in the form of police brutality.

Unravelling the legacies of slavery

Rokaya stands in front of her house in Indramayu, West Java.

From desperation to determination: Indonesian trafficking survivors demand justice

Displaced men, women, and children sheltering in a boxing arena in downtown Port-au-Prince after fleeing their homes during gang attacks in August 2023.

How is the UN supporting Haiti’s struggle to overcome violence and instability?

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On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

Six months after the full-scale invasion of Gaza, 30,000 Palestinians are dead, dozens of children have died of hunger and more than half a million Gazans face starvation. As Israel continues to bomb the occupied territory and restrict the entry of lifesaving goods, the UN is scrambling to respond.

Ukraine: War and restoring a sense of home

A single mother of three children is rebuilding her home with help from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

Gaza’s displaced children: ‘A heartbreaking story of loss and grief’

A five-year-old boy sits on his mattress in a shelter courtyard surrounded by several hundred other displaced people.

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Ambassador Robert A. Wood of the United States votes against the draft resolution on Palestine in the Security Council.

US vetoes Palestine’s request for full UN membership

UN Affairs The Security Council rejected Palestine’s request for UN membership on Thursday, with the United States casting a veto.

The General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2012 granting to Palestine the status of non-member observer State in the United Nations. (file)

Palestine’s status at the UN explained

UN Affairs What will it take for Palestine to become a full UN Member State? As the Security Council takes up the matter while the devastating war in Gaza enters its seventh month, we looked at Palestine’s current status and what it takes to become a UN Member State.

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