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On this year’s World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5, the UN is drawing links between the health of the planet, and human health, and highlighting the importance of protecting biodiversity, the system that supports life.

“For over 70 years, in communities around the world, UNICEF has stood up for the right that every child has to equality, health, education, opportunity, safety and dignity.

Refugees and migrants gather at the Pazarkule border crossing near Edirne, Turkey, hoping to travel into Greece.

A displaced family in Marib, Yemen, carries a winter aid package back to their shelter.

Billions of people around the world depend on the Ocean for their main source of protein.

A plane carrying 12 tonnes of humanitarian aid, aimed at providing nutritional support and improving access to safe water for thousands of families, has landed in the country to support the United Nations humanitarian response. With this shipment, the United Nations has brought more than 100 tons of humanitarian assistance to Venezuela since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to generous funding from the international community.

"We are increasingly alarmed about the situation in Yemen.

The protection of civilians is a key mandate for many United Nations peacekeeping operations including in the Central African Republic.

A family from Amran Governorate in Yemen shares lunch (file)

2020 Military Gender Advocte Awardees, Major Suman Gawani (left) of the Indian Army formerly depolyed with UNMISS, and Commander Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo, a Brazilian Naval officer working in MINUSCA.