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The opening ceremony of the 20th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is held today at UN Headquarters. The theme of the session is "Peace, justice and strong institutions: the role of indigenous peoples in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 16". Volkan Bozkir, President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the opening of the forum.A sample of Dogon art on the Bandiagara Escarpment in Teli, in the central region of Mali. The Escarpment was entered in the UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage List in 1989.Reflections seen in the Secretariat building and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library building at UN Headquarters.An inflatable sculpture by British artist Alan Parkinson has opened at the United Nations office at Geneva (UNOG). The walk-through 'Luminarium' sculpture is designed to challenge diplomats, UN officials, school children and communities to think more creatively about how to make the work of the Human Rights Council better understood and applied around the world. A visitor walks through the art installation.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.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 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.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.The United Nations joins landmarks around the world as it turns off lights at its New York Headquarters, in observance of "Earth Hour".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.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.Secretary-General António Guterres holds a joint press conference with Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), to present the report on the State of the Global Climate in 2020.Trees in a forrest in New York State after a rain storm.Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), opens the 54th session of Commission on Population and Development (CPD54). The theme of CPD54 is "Population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development".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.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 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.Secretary-General António Guterres holds a virtual climate conversation with youth activists Paloma Costa from Brazil (left on screen) and Marie Christina Kolo from Madagascar.Two young boys carrying water walk down a road next to a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near the town of Jowhar, Somalia.Partial view of the sculpture ""Sphere within a Sphere"" by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, located at the Visitors' Entrance to the UN Headquarters complex in New York. The work was presented as a gift to the United Nations by Italy in 1996.

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