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Secretary-General António Guterres and US President Donald Trump (right) during the high-level meeting on reform of the United Nations.

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, after traveling for five hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal.

On 17 September 2017, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Muzoon Almellehan stands for a portrait near a bus in the convoy of 27 empty school buses travels through the streets of Manhattan to shine a spotlight on 27 million out-of-school children living in conflic.

Every month, WFP aims to deliver food assistance to four million vulnerable people across all 14 governorates in Syria.

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.