World
As 'most disaster-prone region,' Asia-Pacific needs risk-sensitive development, UN reports

Urban-search-and-rescue members of USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) at work in Nepal.
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UN: Syria talks to begin next week, as humanitarian aid reaches more besieged areas

Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (centre), flanked by his Special Advisor, Jan Egeland (left) and Yacoub El Hillo, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria briefing the press in Geneva.
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UNHCR expresses concern over EU-Turkey plan

Refugees wait to board buses after crossing the border from Syria into Turkey after fleeing fighting around the city of Kobani in September 2014
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Ban marks UN’s 20th year in Bonn, stresses need for ‘shared responsibility’ on migration

Refugees and migrants wait in line to be registered as asylum-seekers in Berlin, Germany.
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Yemen conflict leaves 2.4 million forcibly displaced

A UNHCR aid convoy passes through a government checkpoint at it enters the centre of Taizz, Yemen.
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Schulz: “For the benefit of refugees we need to cooperate with Turkey”

European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu
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Iraq: senior UN official condemns Hilla bombing, deplores continuing loss of life

Special Representative Ján Kubiš.
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Hopes fade for new Syrian friends camped at Greek border

A group of seven Syrian refugee families, once strangers, arrived on the Greek islands together and are still together
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Number of Burundian refugees tops 250,000 since April

Rwanda. Burundian refugees prepare a meal at the Bugesera Reception Centre, Rwanda in this file picture taken in 2015.
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Ban highlights Algeria's 'great progress' while raising alarm on situation in Libya

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plants a tree of peace alongside Minister Ramtane Lamamra. 6 March, 2016.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi

Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability

Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions

Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future

Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020

