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The Council further strengthened its restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by transposing the sectoral sanctions imposed by UN Security Council resolution 2375 (2017). That resolution was adopted on 11 September 2017 in response to the DPRK's ongoing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles-development activities, in violation and flagrant disregard of previous UN Security Council resolutions.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on October 9, delivered a first batch of humanitarian assistance to refugees and migrants stranded in Sabratha, a city located some 80 kilometres west of Tripoli and which has been the theater of three weeks of fierce fighting.

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, holds press conference at UN Headquarters, led by Beatrice Fihn (centre), Executive Director of ICAN.

People risking sea journeys across the Bay of Bengal often set sail at night.

The Government of Japan has announced a JPY 350 million (approximately US$3.2 million) contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) that will provide six months of food assistance for to 52,000 of the most vulnerable non-refugee Palestinians living in Gaza.

At the Bellafarendi Health Center, Azaharatou Dicko gives UNICEF-supplied ready-to-use therapeutic food to her daughter, Farimata Dicko, 13 months, who suffers from severe acute malnutrition.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the National Strategic Institute for Strategic Studies (NISS) have developed an innovative online platform which can forecast food security crises before they become critical. The system, which collects and analyses massive amounts of food price data, provides early warning so that governments can take action before it is too late.

Aerial view of the devastation in Dominica following successive category five hurricanes in September 2017.

Signing Ceremony for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at UN Headquarters in New York, 20 September 2017.

On 4 November 2016 in Maiduguri, Nigeria, newly-reunited families receive care packages from UNICEF and partners in a transit center for women and children that had been held by the Nigerian military for questioning.