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The world’s mountain and glacier regions are facing unprecedented challenges due to climate change, imposing a crippling effect on the people and economies that rely on them, the UN’s weather agency explained on Tuesday, ahead of a summit to address the world’s rapidly-changing water systems.

A woman attends her produce post in a market in zone 3, Guatemala City, Guatemala. (August 2009)

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore speaks with children at the Umm Battah Girls School in Kadugli, the capital city of South Kordofan State, Sudan.

Protests in cities across the world in recent days show that “people are hurting and want to be heard” by political leaders who must now address a “growing deficit of trust”, said the UN chief on Friday.

A UNICEF staff member with children in flood-affected Pibor Town, South Sudan.

Syria, Al-Hasakah Governorate, 11 October 2019, women displaced by renewed fighting, travel sitting on top of a pick up truck

Hurricane Dorian as seen from the International Space Station on 2 September 2019.

In his annual message for UN Day this Thursday, Secretary-General António Guterres issued a reminder of the role the Organization should be playing, focusing on the the real problems of real people, as a “shared moral anchor” amid “stormy global seas”.

Since 2015, approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country as the Latin American nation's political, humanitarian and economic crisis drags on, creating one of the “direst” displacement crises in the world, the UN and European Union said on Wednesday, ahead of a solidarity conference next week.

After nearly two weeks of fighting in northeast Syria, the UN’s humanitarian wing has estimated that around 180,000 have been forced to leave their homes or shelters, including 80,000 children, all in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.