A detailed view at the start of the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. #UNSC

UN Photo/Manuel Elías

Foreign Minister of Malta and President of #UNSC for April Ian Borg briefs reporters ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including Palestinian question.

UN Photo/Mark Garten

'The world is forgetting about the people of Sudan. [...] At this critical moment, in addition to global support for aid, we need a concerted global push for a ceasefire in Sudan followed by a comprehensive peace process.' 
- António Guterres

UN Photo/Mark Garten

The 21-foot bronze sculpture “Single Form,” made by Barbara Hepworth, was given to the United Nations in 1964 in memory of the late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

Today is #WorldArtDay

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UN Staff Members and Delegates watch the partial #solareclipse from the garden at United Nations Headquarters.

UN Photo/Mark Garten

Today is International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda

A view of three young men in the Nyamirambo area, a car-free zone in Kigali.

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Today is International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda

Children run at the Imbuga City Walk, a car-free zone in Kigali's central business district.

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Today is the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda

A view of the city of Kigali and the Gisozi neighborhood.

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UN Photo/Manuel Elías

Today is the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda

A group of children pose for a photo in Mbyo reconciliation village.

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UN Photo/Manuel Elías

Today is International Day of #Sport for Development and #Peace on theme 'Sport for the Promotion of Peaceful and Inclusive Societies”. Sports can play a key role in bringing people together.

Children play football in Mbyo Village in Rwanda.

UN Photo/Manuel Elías

'In its speed, scale and inhumane ferocity, the war in Gaza is the deadliest of conflicts […] 6 months on, we are at the brink: of mass starvation; of regional conflagration; of a total loss of faith in global
standards and norms.”
- Secretary-General António Guterres

When he was 15 years old, Ismael Ibrahim Omar discovered a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) while working in the fields in his village in Sudan. It detonated and took his right hand.

#MineAction , UNMAS

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Today is International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in #MineAction

A German shepherd dog of the Swedish Battalion with United Nations Emergency Force shows its ability to sniff mines at a Mine Training Course near Cairo, Egypt (1974).
#ThrowbackThursdays , UNMAS

Secretary-General António Guterres visits a UNRWA school for girls in the Wihdat Camp for Palestine refugees in Amman, Jordan.

UN Photo/Mark Garten

Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Palestinian civilians from Gaza and their families at the General Hospital in El Arish, Egypt, speaking with children who had been injured during the ongoing conflict in #Gaza .

UN Photo/Mark Garten

Yolanda Renee King, youth activist and granddaughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, addresses the United Nations General Assembly on the International Day to #RememberSlavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Today is #WorldWaterDay
Water can create peace or spark conflict. When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal, or no access, tensions can rise between communities and countries.
#WaterForPeace

UN Photo/Mark Garten

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, commemorating the 1960 Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.

Photo of mourners carrying coffins of those killed by South African police #OnThisDay in 1985 at Langa Township in South Africa.

Secretary-General António Guterres shares a laugh with Gerardo Peñalver Portal, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations.

#HappinessDay
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Today is International Day of Happiness!
Happy societies are healthier, more productive, and more peaceful.

Students at the Herman Gmeiner School in SOS Children’s Village in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2012.

UN Photo/Staton Winter