The United Nations flag is lowered to half-mast at UN Headquarters to honour colleagues killed in Gaza.Refugees with their hand-crafted musical instruments in a refugee camp in Borkeza.Police First Sergeant Renita Rismayanti of Indonesia at the ceremony before receiving the UN Woman Police Officer of the Year award, established to recognize the exceptional contributions of women police officers to UN peace operations. Police First Sergeant Rismayanti serves as a Crime Database Officer with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). For over two decades, the Police Division in the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions of the Department of Peace Operations has developed several initiatives to increase the participation of women across the full spectrum of United Nations policing functions as part of its efforts to enhance operational effectiveness and mandate delivery. The United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year Award is one such initiative.A view of Alessandra Galloni (left), Editor-in-Chief of Reuters, interviewing Secretary-General António Guterres.Secretary-General António Guterres (fourth from right) meets with staff of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Secretary-General is visiting Chile and Antarctica to see the deadly impact of the climate crisis. While in Antarctica the Secretary-General is expected to stop to see the Collins and Nelson Glaciers, and he will also stop at the Kopaitic Island, which is home to penguins and other species which are being impacted by climate change. The Secretary-General will be accompanied to Antarctica by Gabriel Boric Font, President of the Republic of Chile.Secretary-General António Guterres (centre right) meets with local communities in order to hear directly from them about the impact of the climate crisis during his visit to the Everest region in Nepal. At third from left in the back is Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations.Members of the Security Council observes a moment of silence for Israeli civilians and Foreign Nationals who lost their lives on 7 October in Israel, and all Palestinian civilians who lost their lives in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as UN Staff Members and Journalists who lost their lives in the Gaza Strip ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.The General Assembly holds election of five members of International Court of Justice (ICJ). The following five judges are elected (by secret ballot) to the ICJ for a term of office of nine years, beginning on 6 February, 2024: Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu (Romania) Hilary Charlesworth (Australia) Sarah Hull Cleveland (US) Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco (Mexico) Dire Tladi (South Africa). International Court of Justice judges are elected through parallel procedures at the General Assembly and the Security Council, independently of one another. To be elected, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of votes both in the General Assembly and in the Security Council. In the Security Council, eight votes out of fifteen constitute an absolute majority. In the General Assembly 97 votes out of 193 constitute an absolute majority.Security Council holds election of five members of International Court of Justice (ICJ). A Conference Officer shows the empty ballot box during the meeting. The Security Council elected the following judges at International Court of Justice: Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu (Romania) Hilary Charlesworth (Australia) Sarah Hull Cleveland (US) Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco (Mexico) Dire Tladi (South Africa). International Court of Justice judges are elected through parallel procedures at the General Assembly and the Security Council, independently of one another. To be elected, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of votes both in the General Assembly and in the Security Council. In the Security Council, eight votes out of fifteen constitute an absolute majority. In the General Assembly 97 votes out of 193 constitute an absolute majority.Arabic Interpreter at work during the fourth session of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of nuclear weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction.Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) meets with Bernard Sanders (left) and Peter Welch, United States Senators from Vermont.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (centre left), Director-General of the World Health Organization, greets Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya.Drought is ravaging the continent of Africa. And famine is a harsh reality for millions of people living there. Emergency food and water supplies are a first necessity. But for the long-term many complex problems – political as well as environmental – have to be solved. People of the Karal Region travelling with all their belongings in search of needed water. [Exact date unknown]A view of the interactive photographic exhibition ‘Peace Begins with Her’ featuring portraits of women peacebuilders and peacekeepers to pay tribute to the contribution of women to peace outside of United Nations Headquarters. Fifty large portraits of women peacekeepers and peacebuilders as part of an Inside Out Photobooth Action is serving as a reminder of the urgent need to do more to ensure the inclusion of women in ending conflict and building sustainable peace. The Inside Out project was founded by artist JR in 2011. It aims to help communities stand up for what they believe in and spark global change locally.Sing for Hope performs during the observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November).Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security.The humanitarian commitment of the international community was emphatically reaffirmed at a two-day meeting convened in Geneva in July by UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The 65 nations attending the meeting made substantial commitments of funds and offers of permanent asylum to help solve the immediate and long-term needs of the hundreds of thousands of Indochinese refugees and displaced persons in South-East Asia. The international relief effort is being coordinated by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Cambodian children at the Ban Mai Rut refugee camp near Klong Yai, Thailand. There are about 5,200 refugees in this camp which has a permanent wooden structure and several new ones made of Bamboo poles and thatched roofs and walls. [July 1979]The Security Council adopts resolution 2712 (2023) calling for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable, consistent with international humanitarian law, the full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access for United Nations humanitarian agencies and their implementing partners, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other impartial humanitarian organizations, to facilitate the continuous, sufficient and unhindered provision of essential goods and services important to the well-being of civilians, especially children, throughout the Gaza Strip, including water, electricity, fuel, food, and medical supplies, as well as emergency repairs to essential infrastructure, and to enable urgent rescue and recovery efforts, including for missing children in damaged and destroyed buildings, and including the medical evacuation of sick or injured children and their care givers. The resolution also demands that all parties comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, notably with regard to the protection of civilians, especially children. The resolution was adopted with 12 votes in favour, none against and three abstentions (Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States). A view of Council members voting in favour of the resolution.Secretary-General António Guterres (centre right) watches as Dilma Rousseff (on screen), President of the New Development Bank, addresses the Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security, sustaining peace through common development.Viola Cheptoo and Albert Korir (not pictured), both from Kenya, visit UN Headquarters a day after completing the New York City Marathon. Viola Cheptoo finished 6th among women in the 5th November race. She has dedicated her marathon runs to her late friend, world champion Agnes Tirop, who was found stabbed to death at her home in Kenya in October 2021. Since her death, Cheptoo and a collective of Kenyan women runners have come together to advocate against gender-based violence through their organization Tirop’s Angels.Men winnowing rice in southern India.

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