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The United Nations joins landmarks around the world as it turns off lights at its New York Headquarters, in observance of "Earth Hour".A detail from the mural painting ""Titans"" by Lumen Martin Winter, which commemorates the United Nations World Youth Assembly. The mural, which measures 8'x 18', is oil pigments on linen canvas and has been installed on the third floor of the General Assembly Building. Based on the colors of the light spectrum representing the basic colors and creeds of all nations, the painting depicts five giants representing the five continents moving the world out of darkness into light. The technique is the artist's own pointillist style-more like the dots and dashes of a television screen or the light rays of a computer than those of Seurat. Winter chose light and color as a basic element of visual form to express an inner, more prismatic concept of nature, the hope of world youth, rather than a surface view.American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Col. Michael Collins of Apollo 11, the first men to land on the moon, visited the United Nations today where they attended a ceremony in their honour at the north Plaza of the United Nations General Assembly Building. The astronauts waving from the car before departing from the United Nations site. They are left to right: Neil Armstrong, Col. Michael Collins and Col. Edwin E. Aldrin (back to camera). In the foreground is Secretary-General U Thant.Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director, addresses the opening of the sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65). The sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 15 to 26 March 2021 under the theme "Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life and the empowerment of women and girls".Secretary-General António Guterres attends the unveiling of the installation ‘Pandemic Classroom’ at United Nations Headquarters to call attention to the need for governments to prioritize the reopening of schools. Schools have been completely closed for more than 168 million children globally during almost an entire year due to COVID-19 lockdowns.The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) completed a community project bringing water to the small villages of Kabara and Tarabangou, near to the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali. The villages had always experience recurrent problems of access to drinking water for the villagers as well as their animals.Trees in a forrest in New York State after a rain storm.A view of cherry blossoms in front of the Japanese Peace Bell, a gift to the United Nations by the UN Association of Japan.The General Assembly holds an informal meeting of the plenary on the “Political Declaration on Equitable Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines”. Volkan Bozkir (Left and screens), President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the meeting.Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) conducts a night patrol together with the Internal Security Forces through the streets of Bangui and its surroundings. The objective is to protect civilians and ensure compliance with the nationwide curfew put in place by Faustin Archange Touadera, Head of State of the Central African Republic, on 7 January 2021.A view of the artwork depicting migrants at the main entrance of the venue of the Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, convened on 10 and 11 December in Marrakech, Morocco, under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly.Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, takes part in the high-level pledging event for the humanitarian situation in Yemen held today. The Governments of Sweden and Switzerland and the United Nations invite Member States to participate in the pledging event at the Ministerial level and to contribute generously to the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan, Country-Based Pooled Fund and the Central Emergency Response Fund for 2021 and beyond.A wide view of the 2021 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development as Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium and on screens) addresses the Forum. The Forum provides an inclusive platform to advance an action-oriented dialogue on the solutions on financing the COVID-19 recovery and sustainable development on the path to 2030.Co-chairs of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security are on their way to brief reporters. The co-chairs are Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN; Margo Dieye, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Nauru to the UN; and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN.Guinea is one of the major troop contributors to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), with a battalion of 868 military personnel, including 16 women. They are based in Kidal, in northern Mali, where they ensure the security of the civilian population, as well as the MINUSMA camp, and conducts landmine and improvised explosive device search on the surrounding roads. A peacekeeper conducts a search for landmines and explosive devices on a road near the UN base in Kidal.Ronaldinho (left) and Andrea Pirlo (right) during the Match of Solidarity, a joint United Nations-Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) charity event held at Stadium de La Praille in Geneva.Two young boys carrying water walk down a road next to a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near the town of Jowhar, Somalia.Reflections seen in the Secretariat building and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library building at UN Headquarters.Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights and Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in New York, addresses the 11th Session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing. The working group is considering the existing international framework of human rights of older persons and identifying possible gaps and how best to address them.A view of the High-Level Meeting with Heads of State and Government on the International Debt Architecture and Liquidity and Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond Initiative. With the world struggling to overcome the human and economic devastation from COVID-19, Secretary-General António Guterres together with Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, and Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica convenes this meeting with world leaders to urge the international community to take additional and urgent action to ensure a robust recovery from the pandemic. Secretary-General António Guterres (seated) speaks with Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed ahead of the meeting.

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