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Player in football tournament for displaced people in Ma'rib, Yemen

Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps

Every summer in Ma’rib, Yemen, a place marked by loss and uncertainty, a football tournament offers a rare kind of hope. For hundreds of displaced youth living across more than a dozen sites, it’s a chance to unite, to belong, and to dream.

Guterres welcomes India-Pakistan ceasefire

Bicycle lanes outside UN Headquarters in New York City.

‘We can do better’ for pedestrian and cyclist safety worldwide

Oumalis Abdraman and her six-month-old baby arrived from Western Darfur in Koulbus where they were WFP treated for malnutrition.

More than 50 million in West and Central Africa at risk of hunger

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Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use aid as ‘bait’

World News in Brief: ‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for Congolese refugees and Angola cholera relief

UN warns copper shortage risks slowing global energy and technology shift

UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding

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Jîn Dawod receiving the 2024 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award as the European Winner.

Healing in exile: One refugee’s mission to boost mental health

Fatima Al-Za’anin, a displaced Palestinian girl from Beit Hanoun (Gaza), speaks about her drawings in an art exhibition organized by UNRWA in Gaza City as part of its mental health and psychosocial support services.

Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza

Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE, Founder 5Rights Foundation, speaks during the STI Forum Action Day on Advancing the Global Digital Compact.

Regulating AI to protect children online

in Ukraine, a child is held by her mother while being vaccinated against polio at a medical centre in Uzhgorod.

Ukraine: Immunisation challenges continue amid conflict, WHO says

Hibakujumoku tree planting ceremony to honour Hiroshima, Nagasaki victims

One Month After Myanmar Earthquakes: Humanitarian Assistance Still Needed

UNESCO celebrates International Jazz Day: 7 minutes with Marcus Miller

Critical issues surrounding the Inuit in the Arctic

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Trinidad & Tobago is investing in AI with the expectation that it can accelerate development.

‘Alarming’ slowdown in human development - could AI provide answers?

Economic Development The progress of human development – as measured by people’s freedoms and well-being – has remained sluggish since the major shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. A UN study released on Tuesday finds that used in the right way, artificial intelligence could be a powerful tool to improve millions of lives.

Palestinian journalist, Sami Shehada lost his leg in an attack in Gaza.

Reporters in Gaza bear witness and suffer tragic consequences

At the emergency relief item distribution, UNFPA staff introduces the content of the dignity kits and provides information on gender-based violence for earthquake- affected women and girls in Mandalay, Myanmar.

First Person: Myanmar aid workers brave conflict and harsh conditions to bring aid to earthquake victims

Indigenous Peoples should be at the forefront of climate action, drawing on generations of environmental stewardship and deep connection to the land.

Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns

Shackles used to bind slaves on display at the Transatlantic Slave Trade exhibition at UN Headquarters in New York. (file)

How Haiti paid for its freedom – twice over

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People living in areas recently liberated by Ukrainian forces receive aid.

Ukraine: Keeping the lights on during the darkest times

The 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia has had an indelible effect on the civilian population, displacing millions, straining the economy and inflicting physical and mental trauma. During these dark years, the UN has stayed alongside the Ukrainian people, providing aid, necessities and healthcare, and restoring energy supplies.

UN peacekeeping’s long history of support to DR Congo

UN peacekeepers patrol the eastern DR Congo.

‘Massive response’ needed following Gaza conflict’s ‘horrific toll’ on children

Hot meals are distributed to children in Khan Younis, Gaza.

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A child displaced by violence in city of Mirebalais, Haiti, draws a picture of their new home.

Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death ‘from the inside’ and out

Humanitarian Aid Shattered by her husband’s death during the rising tide of gang violence in Haiti last year, Christiana and her six children fled 223 kilometres from their hometown to the city of Mirebalais, where her six-year-old daughter, Leineda, began treatment for malnutrition.

Lillian and her four children at their home in Cartago, Costa Rica who fled Nicaragua six years ago.

Costa Rica’s refugee lifeline at breaking point amid funding crisis

Migrants and Refugees Costa Rica’s long-standing commitment to protecting refugees is under threat as severe funding cuts cripple support for surging numbers of Nicaraguan asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday.

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