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Students participate in class while listening to teacher at the Sujat Nagar urban slum school in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Wu Hongbo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, second from left, addresses members of the media at the UN World Data Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, on 15 January.

The visiting UN Security Council delegation tours Protection of Civilian sites 1 and 3 and discusses the current situation and the way forward for the peace process in September 2016.

About one in five people in the United States who bought a gun in any setting in the past two years did so without a background check, new research finds.

The survey of more than 1,600 gun owners nationwide also found that half of guns bought privately in the past two years were obtained without a background check. The rate was higher in states without laws governing such purchases -- 57 percent vs. 26 percent in states with laws in place.

In a region where school enrolment rates are very low, and early marriages a major cause of dropout among young girls, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has set up school canteens to help reduce malnutrition rates and to keep children in school. For better results, the organization has partnered with a women’s group that specializes in milk processing.

The Government of Japan has contributed US$500,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to empower rural women and benefit more than 2,500 households in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Secretary-General António Guterres with Nicos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus (left) and Mustafa Akinci, Leader of the Turkish Cypriot Community (right) in Geneva.

Women displaced from the Jebel Marra area in Darfur standing next to their temporary shelter in Tawilla, North Darfur.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a €1 million contribution from Belgium to support 180,000 of the most vulnerable non-refugee Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank on Jan 11.

Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo (CENCO) leads mediation at the signing on 31 December 2016 of a political agreement on the holding of elections in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).