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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.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.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.This woman is one of many who lost all their livelihood when cyclones Idai and Kenneth hit Mozambique only a few weeks apart in March and April 2019. According to the United Nations’ estimates, cyclone Idai affected 1.85 million people in the provinces of Inhambane, Manica, Tete, Zambézia and Sofala, in Mozambique. In the city of Beira, 90% of all the infrastructure was damaged. This photograph is part of a series of images made in the days leading up to the arrival of Secretary-General António Guterres in Mozambique. Mr. Guterres visited the country to take stock of the recovery efforts in the areas impacted by the cyclones. More than 600 people perished during Idai alone; the effects of the two cyclones combined left approximately 2.2 million people in need of assistance. The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have since been on the ground supporting the Government’s efforts - assisting through contributing to the coordination of international support, distributing food, drinking water and medicine, and providing shelter to those displaced."Literacy House is a voluntary organization dedicated to the eradication of illiteracy and the promotion of adult education in India. Since its creation in Lucknow in 1953, it has blossomed into a whole village with classrooms, hotels, and open-air amphitheater and a house of prayer for all peoples. In addition to literacy classes in rural and urban areas, Literacy House conducts classes for men and women in family planning and health education, for example. Its programmes help complement Government efforts in such fields. Two young mothers learning to write in a literacy class conducted by Literacy House at a village near Lucknow, in India. 1979. [Exact date unknown]"Secretary-General António Guterres gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at Adlai Stevenson High School in the Bronx, New York.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".The General Assembly holds a high-level panel discussion to brief on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic. Volkan Bozkir, President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the meeting.Details from the decoration at a special event to celebrate the International Day of Nowruz. The event was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.Linda Thomas-Greenfield, new Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, speaks to reporters after meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres.Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on ten years of ongoing conflict in Syria.Trees in a forrest in New York State after a rain storm.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.A view of the 2021 Global Engagement Summit celebrating United States of America's re-entry into the Paris Agreement. Secretary-General António Guterres attends the event.Young Kenyan women decked in tribal dress on the opening day of the Women's Conference.Volkan Bozkir, President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, receives the COVID-19 vaccine at the Javits Center in New York City.A wide view of the ninth plenary meeting of the Fifth Committee of the 75th session of the General Assembly. Carlos Daniel Amorín Tenconi (at dais and on screens), Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations, chairs the meeting.Opening of the exhibit ""From Africa to the New World: Slavery in New York"". The exhibit educates visitors about the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the role that the arts played in the struggle of enslaved people towards freedom and justice. Through preserved writings, portrait drawings, engravings and other forms of art, the exhibit reveals a chapter of the Transatlantic Slave Trade that unfolded in New York City, and its unique circumstances. The exhibition was organized in connection with the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March 2019). This year the day's theme is ""Remember Slavery: The Power of the Arts for Justice"".Secretary-General António Guterres visited Fiji as part of a trip to the South Pacific to spotlight the issue of climate change ahead of the Climate Action Summit that he is convening in September in New York. In addition to Fiji, the trip took him to New Zealand, Vanuatu and Tuvalu. In each country, the Secretary-General met with government leaders, civil society representatives and youth groups, to hear from those already impacted by climate change and who are also successfully engaging in meaningful climate action. A view of the bay of Suva, Fiji.A view of the venue for the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice is held in Kyoto, Japan during 7-12 March 2021.

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