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Kamal Adwan Hospital faced intense Israeli military operations on 25 October, and is among the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza.

Middle East crisis: Live updates as General Assembly meets on UNRWA and more

Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini made an impassioned plea to protect the UN agency for Palestine refugees at the General Assembly's meeting on UNRWA's fate days after Israel informed the world body of new laws to ban it as bombings and displacement continued on Wednesday across Gaza and Lebanon, with UN officials pleading for a ceasefire and conditions worsening for civilians. UN News app users can follow our coverage here.

Syrian and Lebanese families, who fled the escalating violence in Lebanon, arrive in Syria.

Displacement crisis reaches 123 million, amid ongoing conflicts

Women’s Roundtable at UN-Habitat’s WUF12 in Cairo, Egypt.

A city safe for women is safe for all: Women’s voices lead at World Urban Forum in Cairo

UNRWA staff continue to work in Gaza where possible.

How has the war in Gaza affected UNRWA’s ability to support Palestinians?

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UNESCO urges more action to combat violence and bullying at school

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World Urban Forum: The search for solutions to the global housing crisis moves to Cairo

COP16 reached the first ever agreement recognising people of African descent and Indigenous Peoples as key drivers in conserving nature.

COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted

A woman flees the Al Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City to the south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli laws blocking UNRWA – devastating humanitarian impact for Palestinians?

A hummingbird hovers over an orange flower.

Balancing biodiversity at global UN summit in Colombia

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People in the Gaza Strip collect relief supplies delivered by boat in 1957. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built

Humanitarian Aid Education, health care, humanitarian and social services, camps for displaced people, including in times of armed conflict. These are just some of the services that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been providing Palestinians since the agency began operating in 1950.

The Guajiro bean has fed Wayúu Indigenous Peoples of South America for centuries.

Drought or flooding? No match for this climate-friendly bean

A woman greets members of the Technical Committee of the peace, security and cooperation framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region during a field visit to the Mugunga camp for internally displacement people near Goma.

Explainer: How to advance women’s roles in peace and security

The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake

UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld arrived in Leopoldville on 13 September 1961, upon invitation of Premier Cyrille Adoula, to discuss support to the Republic of the Congo. At his side is Premier Adoula.

Mystery still surrounds death of revered UN chief Hammarskjöld, 63 years after tragic plane crash

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The remains of a wristwatch found in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, records the moment of the atomic bomb explosion at 8:15am local time on 6 August 1945. (file)

Atomic bombs: The second the world changed

By Ariana Lindquist, Ann Sophie Persson and Eileen Travers

The Nobel Peace Prize was just awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bomb attacks launched by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Since then, the UN and groups like Nihon Hidankyo have helped to forge a path towards a nuclear-weapon-free world.

Faces of Gaza, one year on

The town of Khan Younis, like many areas of the Gaza Strip, has been decimated by the war.

Thousands descend on UN for busiest week of the year

Secretary-General António Guterres (on screen) addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session.

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Peacekeepers serving with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) clear debris from a recent bombing between Meiss el Jabal and Tebnin.

Middle East crisis: Live updates for 5 November

Peace and Security Conditions worsened amid rising death tolls and destruction in Gaza and Lebanon, but UN agencies reported some good news: the final phase of a Gazan polio vaccine campaign reached nearly 90 per cent of children in the north, and Palestinian and Lebanese youngsters are returning to learning in makeshift classrooms. Join us Wednesday for live updates, including the General Assembly's meeting on UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, which new Israeli laws pledge to ban in 90 days. UN News app users can follow here.

On a wall inside one of the halls embracing the 12th session of the World Urban Forum, participants, mainly young ones, stop by to answer a straightforward question: “What would you like to see in your city?”

‘Tons of Ideas!’: World Urban Forum in Cairo hears calls for youth-led solutions to urban challenges

SDGs Young people gathered in Cairo for the World Urban Forum led calls on Tuesday for action to ease the housing crisis impacting billions globally, and to boost local action – especially youth-led urban development movements – to secure resilient and environmentally just cities.

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