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Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, briefs the Security Council.

3.6 million children in Iraq – one in five in the country - are at serious risk of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into armed groups, according to a new UNICEF report.

Wide view of the Security Council on 29 June 2016 where members took action on mandates of peacekeeping operations in Mali, Darfur, and the Golan Heights.

A busy street in Istanbul, Turkey.

Wide view of the General Assembly Hall while ballots are being collected for the election of new non-permanent members of the Security Council for two-year terms starting on 1 January 2017.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel, in Jerusalem.

Annual ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment gets underway.

The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, on 24 June expressed deep satisfaction at the signing of a bilateral ceasefire agreement by the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) ending the armed conflict that has torn the country for more than half a century.

A staff member of the Liberia National Police Anti-Drug Squad reviews the municipal dump outside Monrovia, Liberia.

UNICEF has been working with partners in Bama, Borno State, since March 2016, providing health, nutrition and water and sanitation support in a camp housing 25,000 people displaced by the conflict, including 15,000 children.