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The Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades.

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition released on Sep 15. At the same time, multiple forms of malnutrition are threatening the health of millions worldwide.

The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and UNICEF in Nigeria welcome the signing by the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, of an Action Plan to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children on Sep 15.

After a year of disruption and uncertainty, children are returning to school in the Kasai. The classroom is an important place for healing as children are able to focus on the future and think about their studies, their friends and their games.

Secretary-General António Guterres.

Some of the many children attending the United Nations Peace Bell Ceremony on the Occasion of the 36th Anniversary of the International Day of Peace.

The Council further strengthened its restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by transposing the sectoral sanctions imposed by UN Security Council resolution 2371 (2017). This resolution was adopted on 5 August 2017 in response to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s ongoing nuclear weapon and ballistic missile-development activities, in violation and flagrant disregard of previous UN Security Council resolutions.

The Programme Office in Bishkek supported a two-day roundtable discussion on implementation issues of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in the context of Kyrgyzstan’s National Action Plan (NAP) on 7 and 8 September in Kosh-Kol village, Issyk-Kul region.

On 14 September 2017, the Council prolonged the restrictive measures over actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine for a further six months, until 15 March 2018. The measures consist of asset freezes and travel bans.

On 7 September 2017, newly arrived Rohingya refugees walk ashore at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Chittagong Division in Bangladesh, after traveling for 5 hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal.