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Adolescent girls use cellphones and tablets in the Za’atari camp for Syrian refugees.

Indigenous women in Guatemala were systematically raped and enslaved by the military in a small outpost near the Sepur Zarco community during the 36-year-long civil conflict.

Over two million people in Sudan are expected to slip into hunger in the coming months as a result of the ongoing violence in the country.

Kornelia Shikukumwa, Nupoor Sanjiv and Anuujin Amarjagal (from left to right) , UNMISS peacekeepers from Namibia, India and Mongolia , respectively, are photographed at the mission’s headquarters in Juba, South Sudan.

Fatoumatta Fatty’s commute on an old, malfunctioning wheelchair takes up to two hours during rainy season in The Gambia, but she is happy joining her co-workers at a sanitary pad production centre, where she takes pride in making products that help women overcome “period poverty” across the country.

Counterfeit drugs at a market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Displaced Sudanese children at a temporary shelter..

New ideas must open fresh pathways towards finally ending the era of colonialism and to help advance sustainable development in the world’s 17 remaining colonies, the UN chief said in a video message to the Organization’s decolonization seminar in Bali, Indonesia

The theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed on Monday, centres on moving from talk to action: build back biodiversity.

Nearly 15 months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, civilians are forced to live through an “unbearable routine”, amidst alarming levels of destruction and damage to their communities, said the deputy UN disarmament chief on Thursday.