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Ambassador Jan Petersen, head of the referendum observation mission from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, answering media questions outside a polling station in Skopje, 30 September 2018.

The Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) has finalised allocations totalling $80 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for humanitarian response to some of the UN's least well-funded 2018 response plans across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The decision confirms provisional allocations the ERC made earlier in the year.

The “Non-Violence” (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on display at the UN Visitors’ Plaza.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, gavels to a close the General Assembly’s annual general debate.

Forced labour in Uzbekistan has always received more attention than that in neighbouring Turkmenistan. It’s time to stop Turkmenistan hiding in the shadows.

On 30 September 2018 in Indonesia, Nurul Istikhoroh (15) is evacuated by the Basarnas team at the Balaroa National Park in West Palu, Central Sulawesi, after almost 48 hours of being trapped in the rubble of their house and being submerged in water after the earthquake and tsunami that struck Sulawesi on September 28.

Few Macedonians turned out to vote in a referendum on whether to change the name of their country – a move that could pave the way for it to join NATO and the European Union.

Protecting women and girls through safe abortion.

Education as the primary factor in preventing all forms of racism and discrimination was the main focus of a high-level event organized by UNESCO at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, on September 27. Through the lens of its program to prevent anti-Semitism, UNESCO sought to mobilize Member States’ commitment in the fight against all forms of intolerance and to strengthen the organization’s overall efforts to prevent racism and discrimination.

On September 27, the European Commission proposed additional support for UNRWA to allow the agency to keep providing access to education for 500,000 Palestine refugee children, primary health care for more than 3.5 million patients and assistance to over 250,000 vulnerable Palestine refugees.