The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), with the Irish Defence Forces and UN Police, leads an unexploded ordnance (UXO) disposal initiative at the site of a primary school in Rajaf, South Sudan. An officer of the South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) during the disposal task.A display of national traditions is seen at the arrival to a gala dinner by UN Secretary-General António Guterres along with other Heads of States and governments hosted by Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan, during the the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held in Awaza, Turkmenistan.The UN Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC) and Colombia's Reintegration and Normalization Agency (ARN) supported the Rotary Club on a two-day medical mission to Colinas, a territorial area for training and reintegration in the Guaviare department. A team of cardiologists, urologists, optometrists, orthopedists, gynecologists, dentists and pediatricians, attended to more than 700 people over the course of the mission, including former FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army) combatants, their families, and others from nearby local communities. A Rotary Club pediatrician treats a child during the mission.View of the Turkish quarter in Skiplje. The town's population is composed of a wide variety of ethnic groups.Michael Imran Kanu (at podium), Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, alongside other Permanent Representatives of ECOWAS, briefs reporters on efforts to combat terrorism through regional leadership and multilateral cooperation.Miroslav Jenca, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas for the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, visits Colombia to encourage progress of the peace process, while reaffirming the support of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC). Mr. Jenca looks out over Bogotá.Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, briefs the Security Council during the meeting on women, peace and security.This year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August) aims to highlight the importance of honouring agreements between States, their citizens and indigenous peoples, emphasizing the principles of friendship, cooperation and peace. More than 200 indigenous and non-indigenous paddlers arrived at Pier 96 at West 57th Street in Manhattan, after having collectively travelled hundreds of miles on rivers and horseback to honour the first treaty – the Two Row Wampum – concluded between Dutch immigrants and the Haudenosaunee (a confederacy of six nations, with its seat in the Onondaga nation in New York State) in 1613. Dutch Consul General Rob de Vos (centre) welcomes paddlers and the Chief of the Onondaga Nation, Tadodaho Sid Hill (right), at Pier 96.A view of the sun rising behind Long Island City and the sculpture, "Good Defeats Evil", by Zurab Tsereteli, in the north garden area of UN Headquarters. The sculpture depicts St. George slaying the dragon. The Dragon here is made from actual parts of a Soviet SS-20 and an American Pershing II nuclear missiles, and represents the specter of nuclear war. The sculpture was presented to the UN by the Soviet Union in 1990 and commemorates the dismantling of the missiles under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed 8 December, 1987 by Presidents Ronald Reagan of the United States and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union.Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with Major-General Rufus Kupolati, the outgoing Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO).Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) inspects peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) prior to a wreath-laying ceremony to honour Moroccan and Cambodian peacekeepers killed earlier this year in the line of duty. The ceremony took place at a MINUSCA field camp in Bangassou.A view of a SDG Media Zone event, "Be the change for water". For this World Water Day, we are asking everyone to take action for water. UN Water’s Be the Change Campaign provides an opportunity for all of us to better walk the talk” when it comes to the SDGs. This Initiative guides and encourages us to live more sustainably at work and at home by changing our consumption patterns, using active transport such as cycling and buying local foods. Everyone is welcome to participate. Learn more! Speakers: Kate Medlicott, Sanitation and Waste Team Leader, WHO; Noemie Plumier, Strategic Partnership Facilitator, World Youth Parliament for Water; Daniella Bostrom Couffe, Communications Manager, UN-Water; and Moderator Nanette Braun, Conference Spokesperson.UN Security Officer Fatuma Juma performs honor guard duties at the wreath-laying ceremony held to commemorate the twenty-second anniversary of the bombing of the Canal Hotel in Baghdad.Polling staff prepare electoral materials before sunrise on Election Day, in Dili, Timor-Leste. The country is holding its second presidential elections since independence from Indonesia in 2002.Jean-Pierre Lacroix (in the background), Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, visits the German frigate Brandenburg, part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Maritime Task Force, off the coast of Naqoura, Lebanon. He is accompanied by Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz, Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. During his visit Mr. Lacroix met with senior Lebanese officials, members of the diplomatic corps accredited to Lebanon, UNIFIL leadership, and fellow peacekeepers. This was his last official meeting with outgoing Head of Mission and Force Commander Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro SáenzSecretary-General António Guterres (right) speaks with Shyla Raghav, Chief Climate Officer of TIME Magazine, after delivering a special address on Climate Action “A Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the New Energy Era”.Dian Triansyah Djani (left), Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations, and Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, briefs reporters on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the situation in Afghanistan.Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed serves food at the Dejazmach Wondirad School in Addis Ababa. The Deputy Secretary-General visited the school along with other key food systems sites in Addis Ababa ahead of attending the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4). The 2nd UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) takes place from July 27–29, 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is co-hosted by Ethiopia and Italy.Special event marking the International Day of Non-Violence, organized by the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. From left to right at the podium: Sudha Raghunathan, musician; Barry Gan, Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University; Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Minister of Finance for the People's Republic of Bangladesh; Peter Thomson, President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly; Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General, and Syed Akbaruddin, Permanent Representative of India, displaying the commemorative stamp of M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian music legend on the 50th anniversary of her performance at the UN in 1966.A display of national traditions is seen at the arrival to a gala dinner by UN Secretary-General António Guterres along with other Heads of States and governments hosted by Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan, during the the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held in Awaza, Turkmenistan.

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