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Ant¨®nio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, met with visiting world leaders in his office at ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters on 8 March 2024. Photo: Marc Latrique

A bugler of the ±¬ÁÏÍø Guard Unit performs at a Medal Parade honouring uniformed personnel of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (±¬ÁÏÍøSOM) at the ±¬ÁÏÍø Compound in September 2022. Photo: Sourav Sarker

Peacekeepers Sergeant Glancy-Richards of the British Army and Lieutenant Colonel Danica Borzov¨¢, a ±¬ÁÏÍø Police officer from Slovakia, patrol the buffer zone in Cyprus. Photo: Peter ?ulgan

A Pakistani peacekeeper aboard a mission vehicle patrols in Uvira, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to help safeguard civilians. Photo: Jean Claude Wenga

Members of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (±¬ÁÏÍøFICYP) conduct Exercise OP Horus in the ±¬ÁÏÍø Protected Area, Nicosia, enhancing readiness to respond to extreme situations. Photo: Mamer Bajrami

In a 2016 photo at the United Nations Global Service Centre (±¬ÁÏÍøGSC) warehouse in Brindisi, interns Tianchan Wang and Daniela Attorre from the Supply Chain Service illustrate key peacekeeping logistics functions. Photo: Rossana Palermo

Mohamed Elsaadawey, Digital Communications Officer at ±¬ÁÏÍøDP Egypt, joined ±¬ÁÏÍø Volunteers and the Egyptian Food Bank in Cairo in November 2023 to prepare food boxes for families in Gaza¡ªshowcasing solidarity and humanitarian action across borders. Photo: Mohamed Elsaadawey

In Dakar, Senegal, workers load equipment from Mali during the closure of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the ±¬ÁÏÍø¡¯s largest logistical drawdown, moving thousands of cargo units and personnel in six months. Photo: Michelle Alves de Lima

X-ray container inspection training at the Port of Mal¨¦, Maldives, organized by the ±¬ÁÏÍø Office on Drugs and Crime (±¬ÁÏÍøODC) Passenger and Cargo Control Programme, June 2025. Photo: Hugo Bartoli

A company of Malaysian Battalion (MALBATT) conducts a regular foot patrol as part of its operational duties within its designated area of responsibility. The patrol reflects the continuous commitment of MALBATT to fulfilling its tasks under the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (±¬ÁÏÍøIFIL). Photo: Syaiful Bin Shahidan

Since 2014, Rwandan Battalion 2 (RWANBATT-2) has provided 24/7 protection at the Malakal Protection of Civilians (POC) site in South Sudan, ensuring a calm and stable security situation. Photo: Fred Marere

On 22 May 2025, in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal Engineer Company-28 carries out an urgent rescue operation after a four-story building under construction collapsed in heavy rainfall. Photo: Dijon Rana

In 2024, in L?dek-Zdr¨®j, Poland, International Organization for Migration (IOM) field teams worked alongside local crisis management to provide information and psychosocial support to residents of nearby villages affected by floods. Photo: Alexey Shivrin

Staff of the ±¬ÁÏÍø Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the field speak with a homeowner whose house was destroyed during a 46-hour Israeli military operation, addressing the family¡¯s displacement in the Jenin Refugee Camp, northern occupied Palestinian territories. Photo: Yousef Natour

Christine Fossen, Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (±¬ÁÏÍøMISS), from Norway, leads the police component of ±¬ÁÏÍøMISS. Photo: Selma Lotfi

Personnel of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) practice unexploded ordnance (UXO) marking while patrolling east of the Berm in Western Sahara. Photo: Tanja Pfeifer

First Lieutenant Jirayut Kaewyod, a peacekeeper from the Thailand Horizontal Military Engineer Company (THAI HMEC), observes a grader at work on a dusty road near Rumbek, South Sudan. Photo: Wittaya Chareerut

Chinese Horizontal Military Engineer Company-15 (CHN HMEC-15) in Wau, South Sudan, carries out road rehabilitation for the newly built refugee camp. Photo: Xiaokun Zhang

United Nations Honour Guards, including Corporal Parody of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment (British Army), lead the ANZAC Day sunrise ceremony on the morning of 25 April 2025 at Waynes Keep Cemetery in the ±¬ÁÏÍø Buffer Zone in Nicosia, Cyprus. Photo: Dominic House

Lorena Tavares, from the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, arrives by ±¬ÁÏÍø helicopter in Miraflores, Guaviare, deep in the Colombian Amazon, delivering educational materials to support dialogue with Indigenous women and highlighting the ±¬ÁÏÍø¡¯s commitment to reconciliation, cultural respect, and community-led peacebuilding. Photo: Francisco Javier Romero D¨ªaz

Indian peacekeepers of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (±¬ÁÏÍøMISS) stand guard as a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy navigates a remote area in South Sudan. Photo: Karan Joseph

A staff member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) inspects bags of fertilizer stored in a warehouse in Bunkpurugu District, Northern Ghana, as part of a European Union-funded food security response project. Photo: George Koranteng Danso

Bangladeshi peacekeepers of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (±¬ÁÏÍøMISS) demonstrate vigilance in providing protection for civilians in Wau, South Sudan, on 18 October 2023. Photo: Soraya Semmar Alami

Josefina Cheia, a Gender-Based Violence Associate with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (±¬ÁÏÍøHCR) in Mozambique, leads a community sensitization session with newly displaced women and girls in Cabo Delgado province. Photo: Isadora Zoni

Staff of the World Food Programme (WFP) conduct a humanitarian needs assessment with Arhuaco Indigenous leaders (Mamus) in the rural mountains of Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia, on 29 May 2025. Photo: Gonzalo Galezo

Rania Abdulraheem, staff member of the ±¬ÁÏÍø Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), engages with an elderly woman at the Al-Sha'b internally displaced persons site in Aden Governorate, Yemen. Photo: Rania Abdulraheem

Hosna Ara Begum from Cox¡¯s Bazar, Bangladesh, works as a Protection Associate in Cox¡¯s Bazar, marking her 12^th year with ±¬ÁÏÍøHCR. Photo: ±¬ÁÏÍøHCR/Paula Bronstein

Nepalese Batallion NEPBATT-XXXI swiftly conducts a medical evacuation operation under the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) during a critical emergency in Fataki on 25 March 2025. Photo: Anmol Bikram Pandey

NEPBATT-XXXI conducts a medical evacuation operation under the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) during a critical emergency in Fataki on 25 March 2025. Photo: Anmol Bikram Pandey

From 28 June to 1 July 2025, a second round of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) vaccination campaign was conducted on the waterways in Makoko settlement in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Chinenye Okafor

o Vietnamese Senior Captain Vu Nguyet Anh, Military Observer of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (±¬ÁÏÍøMISS), gently comforts a local girl during a community outreach activity in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: Nguyen The Anh

On 30 March 2025, a young refugee girl with a fractured lower leg was brought to the Chinese Level 1+ Peacekeeping Hospital in Lebanon, where orthopedic surgeon Dr. Xin Peng performed a manual reduction while gynecologist Dr. Gao Yan tried to comfort her. Photo: Gao Yan

Katia da Costa, ±¬ÁÏÍøICEF Child Protection Officer in Guinea-Bissau, carrying out the birth registration campaign in the Oio region in October 2023. Photo: Ana Ernesto

Rwandan Battalion 2 (Rwanbatt-2) provides free medical health services to residents of a protection-of-civilians site in Malakal, South Sudan. Photo: Fred Marere

Dr. Boston Zimba, Head of Immunization of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Kenya, joined vaccinated children in Kajiado county as they display their marked fingers during the nationwide Measles, Rubella and Typhoid Conjugate Vaccination Campaign in July 2025. Photo: Genna Print

Members of the ±¬ÁÏÍø-Women Communications Teams from ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters and Colombia walk through the Pondores Territorial Training and Reintegration Spaces. Photo: Karina Ter¨¢n

At the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in 2025, Nathalie Delorme of ±¬ÁÏÍø Geneva¡¯s Beyond Lab moderates high-level panels, bringing youth perspectives to global discussions on sustainable financing and intergenerational equity. Photo: Nathalie Delorme

A ±¬ÁÏÍø peacekeeper conducts an awareness-raising session on witchcraft and charlatanism for a group of five women in the Gozamar II neighbourhood of Ndele, Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture, Central African Republic. Photo: Joko Riyono Asnan

Laja Lako Busuk, an engineer for the Enhancing Community Resilience Project of the United Nations Office for Project Services (±¬ÁÏÍøOPS) in South Sudan, demonstrates how to use the pump for a newly constructed borehole built for the community in Kapoeta North, Eastern Equatoria State. Photo: Kenyi Moses

Kahlil Attalah from the Greening Committee of the United Nations Development Programme (±¬ÁÏÍøDP) is working with a company on the installation of solar panels for the ±¬ÁÏÍø offices at Bleue House in Tunisia. Photo: Sarra Kalfat

Food and Agriculture Organization experts demonstrate how to manually triple rinse containers used for organic pest control on 28 May 2024, in Baidibek Bi village, Almaty region, Kazakhstan. Photo: Elnara Bainazarova

Yehia Salah, a Food and Agriculture Organization technical expert in Egypt, works with local grape producers in Tiba, Nubaria, on 8 July 2018. Yehia taught farmers how to check the soil to make sure that it is free of diseases. Photo: Heba Khamis

In Kalehe Territory, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations Population Fund (±¬ÁÏÍøFPA) assists nearly 1,000 women affected by flooding. Photo: Junior Mayindu

In Bandiagara, Mali, Fadi Tamboura works with displaced women to produce peanut oil. Forced to flee due to insecurity, internally displaced women formed the Kana Women¡¯s Association, joining forces with women from host communities. Photo: Amadou Kane

A staff member from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (±¬ÁÏÍøHCR) shares a moment with girls from the community in San Mat¨ªas of Bolivia, who received educational materials, while their families were supported with basic relief supplies during a forest fire. Photo: Karen Andrea Pe?a Suarez

Zeljko Stevanovic, Bor Field Office Operations Team Leader of the United Nations Police Force, is teaching mutual respect and trust to a small child from a local internally displaced persons camp. Photo: Zeljko Stevanovic

An Indian peacekeeper actively engages with students at Fertait Primary School of South Sudan, going beyond his security duties to assist with teaching and learning. Photo: Shaik Saffi

Children at Ensino Basico Central 3 Santa Maria School in Ainaro Vila, Timor-Leste, receive health cards after being screened under the School-Based Primary Health Care Package, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country. Photo: Ronalda Fernandes

Lorey Campese, a Communications Officer for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (±¬ÁÏÍøHCR), pays a field visit to the Puerto Antioquia community in Boja?a, Choc¨®, Colombia. Photo: Catalina Betancur S¨¢nchez

Ezzedin Adam Mohamad Adam, World Health Organization(WHO) Community Systems Strengthening Officer, facilitates a community health dialogue in the village of Abu Gaw in North Darfur, Sudan, on 25 April 2022. Photo: Lindsay Mackenzie Cheung

Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary?General for Afghanistan with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (±¬ÁÏÍøAMA) and Indrika Ratwatte, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, meet with Afghan female farmers in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province. Photo: Ahmad Khalid Khaliqi

In Juba, South Sudan, a ±¬ÁÏÍø policewoman from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (±¬ÁÏÍøMISS) conducts school sensitization about sexual and gender-based violence. Photo: Rohey Touray

Bebey Michelle Tchania, a ±¬ÁÏÍø Volunteer, gives a voice to local community members through her work as a radio producer with Guira FM in the Central African Republic. Photo: Soraya Semmar Alami

Staff at the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) distribute items during a community gathering. Photo: Paulus Supit

A traditional Murle dance in Pibor, South Sudan. This is what peace looks like when it takes root - cultures unite, children smile and blue helmets dance not as soldiers, but as symbols of shared humanity. Amid song, colour and tradition, peace finds its rhythm. Photo: Raafli Raafli

Nuriat Tushemerirwe, a Security Officer with the ±¬ÁÏÍø Department of Safety and Security (±¬ÁÏÍøDSS), at a crowd-control post during the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly held at the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Photo: Chris Muturi Kariyo

Senior Security Officer Gerry Manampan guides a delegate at the 46th Street and First Avenue entrance of ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters in New York on 26 September 2024, during the annual General Debate of the 79th United Nations General Assembly. Photo: Harpreet S. Gill

Staff from diverse nations came together to honour peacekeepers worldwide and to celebrate the spirit of unity under the ±¬ÁÏÍø flag at a ±¬ÁÏÍø Peacekeeping Day marathon organized by the MONUSCO Welfare Team in Beni-Mavivi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 29 May 2025. Photo: Mukesh K Devadiga

A South Sudanese child smiles beside Benazir Ahmed, Police Adviser from Egypt with the ±¬ÁÏÍø Mission in South Sudan (±¬ÁÏÍøMISS), on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers in Juba. Photo: Benazir Ahmed

The Sri Lanka Aviation Team of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) holds the annual parade to recognize and reward the efforts of the aviation team after its first year of service at the Bria Field Office. Photo: Sebastian Omondi Nyawalo

In front of the old mosque of Chinguetti, Mauritania, the guardian of a family library speaks with a colleague from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (±¬ÁÏÍøESCO) about their joint efforts to preserve cultural and documentary heritage. Photo: Ming Kuok Lim

A staff member from ±¬ÁÏÍøESCO was on a mission to assess the impact of floods in Meroe Island on World Heritage sites in Khartoum, Sudan. Photo: Heidi Mirza

An ±¬ÁÏÍø Women team visits Caf¨¦ La Trocha, a business owned by the women ex-combatants from Las Manuelitas, who signed the peace agreement in Colombia. Photo: Karina Ter¨¢n

±¬ÁÏÍøDP, alongside ±¬ÁÏÍø Volunteers, the Ambassador of Finland to Thailand, and disability rights networks, walked across Bangkok¡¯s Ploenchit intersection to promote accessibility and inclusive urban design. Photo: Sukuma Uttarak

The ±¬ÁÏÍøESCO team in Kazakhstan ascends the gentle slope toward the ¡°ice wall¡± of the Bogdanovich Glacier. Photo: Olzhas Turdakyn

Duncan Moore of the ±¬ÁÏÍø Environment Programme (±¬ÁÏÍøEP) documents the intimate lives of the Gelada monkeys high in Simien Mountains National Park in Ethiopia. Photo: Ahmed Nayim Yussuf

George Akorimo, Explosive Detection Dog Handler with ±¬ÁÏÍø Mine Action in Somalia, attended to a member of the K-9 squad, Megan, at the ±¬ÁÏÍø compound in Mogadishu during the observance of Mine Action Day, on 4 April 2024. Photo: Sourav Sarker

Titan, a member of the K-9 squad, has a bird's eye view of the ±¬ÁÏÍø General Assembly Hall. Photo: Robert Fealy

Scientist Clarissa Jazmin Rios Rojas sits in negotiations, surrounded by diplomats during a meeting of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Mariia Koroleva

Betsy Ntongai, a civil servant at the United Nations Office at Geneva (±¬ÁÏÍøOG), actively works to combat racism and discrimination. Here, she chairs a conference marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Photo: Morard Philippe

From behind the scenes, colleagues from ±¬ÁÏÍø Women frame the General Assembly through their camera lenses, aiming to capturing the spirit of and to memories International Women¡¯s Day. Photo: Silvia M?rkli Garc¨ªa

Xiaoke Wu, who joined the ±¬ÁÏÍø in 2003 and who is now Chief of the Chinese Interpretation Section, is providing simultaneous interpretation for a meeting in the ±¬ÁÏÍø General Assembly Hall. Photo: Rong Jiang

Mr. Maoqi Li, Chief of the Chinese Language Unit at ±¬ÁÏÍø News, records a video at ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters in New York. A former China Central Television anchor, he has been with the ±¬ÁÏÍø since 2005, delivering multilingual news that simplifies ±¬ÁÏÍø processes and shares field stories worldwide. Photo: Rong Jiang

Inside the Security Council Chamber at ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters in New York, tour guide James, from Guyana, speaks with visitors on a guided tour about the pivotal role of the Security Council in maintaining international peace and security. Photo: Hichem Mohamed Mezioud

Peter Leonard, Library Assistant, works at the Dag Hammarskj?ld Library, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, at ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters in New York. Photo: Geraldo Gonzalez

In June 2025, new ±¬ÁÏÍø staff took the Oath of Office, reaffirming their commitment as international civil servants in hybrid GO2±¬ÁÏÍø Welcome Ceremonies. The induction programme inspires them to serve with integrity, competence, and efficiency, as outlined in the ±¬ÁÏÍø Charter. Photo: Jodi Nooyen

Nyu Wang of the ±¬ÁÏÍø Department of Economic and Social Affairs at ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters busily prepares for the 2025 Science, Technology and Innovation Forum. Photo: Nyu Wang

At ±¬ÁÏÍø Kids Day, ±¬ÁÏÍøHQ tour guide Mykola from Ukraine introduces children to the ±¬ÁÏÍø¡¯s Virtual Reality outreach, letting them explore peacekeeping, humanitarian work, and international cooperation while inspiring the next generation of global citizens. Photo: Hichem Mohamed Mezioud

±¬ÁÏÍø Singers, part of the ±¬ÁÏÍø Staff Recreation Council, after a May 2024 concert at ±¬ÁÏÍøHQ. The multicultural choir, comprising ±¬ÁÏÍø staff, delegates, and guests from over 30 nationalities, performs pieces in more than 50 languages, promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding, celebrating unity in diversity. Photo: Cristina Serban