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A two-year-old from Tyre, Lebanon, recovers from severe burns following an Israeli airstrike.

Lebanon: UN agencies call for ceasefire as war worsens dire conditions

The humanitarian situation in Lebanon has surpassed the devastation wrought by the war with Israel in 2006, UN agencies said on Saturday, publishing the latest updates from the ground amid calls for an immediate ceasefire.

A health worker administers the polio vaccine to a Palestinian child in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza. (file)

Gaza: Strike hits health centre as polio vaccine campaign resumes in ravaged north

Journalists covering a terrorist attack in Kenya.

85 per cent of journalist killings go unpunished

World Urban Forum: The search for solutions to the global housing crisis moves to Cairo

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Middle East crisis: Live updates on 1 November from the UN and the region

Sudan crisis escalates as attacks in Al Jazirah spark mass displacement

Hunger and cholera crises escalate in South Sudan, as needs surge

Deadly floods in Spain highlight need to cut greenhouse gas emissions

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A woman flees the Al Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City to the south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli laws blocking UNRWA – devastating humanitarian impact for Palestinians?

A hummingbird hovers over an orange flower.

Balancing biodiversity at global UN summit in Colombia

Sudan is now the world's largest displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people driven from their homes. Pictured here, a boy stands in an IDP camp in North Darfur.

Sudan trapped in a ‘nightmare of violence’, UN chief tells Security Council

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Farida Shaheed, at UN Headquarters in New York.

Alignment of AI in education with human rights frameworks is key

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People in the Gaza Strip collect relief supplies delivered by boat in 1957. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built

Humanitarian Aid Education, health care, humanitarian and social services, camps for displaced people, including in times of armed conflict. These are just some of the services that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been providing Palestinians since the agency began operating in 1950.

The Guajiro bean has fed Wayúu Indigenous Peoples of South America for centuries.

Drought or flooding? No match for this climate-friendly bean

A woman greets members of the Technical Committee of the peace, security and cooperation framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region during a field visit to the Mugunga camp for internally displacement people near Goma.

Explainer: How to advance women’s roles in peace and security

The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake

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

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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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UNHCR caseworkers are helping stateless residents in the Chiang Mai region of Thailand with their citizenship applications.

‘Historic development’ in Thailand as it moves to end statelessness for nearly 500,000 people

Migrants and Refugees In a landmark move towards ending statelessness, Thailand’s cabinet has approved an accelerated pathway to permanent residency and nationality for nearly half a million stateless people, marking one of the region’s most significant citizenship initiatives.

Palestinian women grieve for their relatives who were killed in Israeli bombings in Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Potentially ‘deadly’ consequences could arise from Israel’s UNRWA ban: UNICEF

Humanitarian Aid The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that Israeli legislation to shut down the main lifeline for Palestine refugees in Gaza “will be deadly” if fully implemented.

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