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Dominique Rankin (Kapiteotak), Ancestral Heritage of the Anicinape First Nation, attends the launch event of the Muscat Plan of Action at @UN Headquarters.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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It is hot today!
#ThrowbackThursday to swimming in the East River in 1952 with the newly completed @UN Headquarters in the background
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Climate change is no longer a future threat: it is reshaping life across the planet. World Environment Day 2026 reminds us that we still have time to change course.
#NowForClimate
Photo of ice in Antarctica (2023)
UN Photo/Mark Garten
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Today the President of the 81st session of the #UNGA will be elected. Since 1945 only five women have been heading the UN body!
@UN_PGA
Take a look at the photo story on the 5 female presidents : bit.ly/five-female-president…
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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Andrii Melnyk, Permanent Representative of Ukraine @UKRinUN, looks at Oana-Silvia Ţoiu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, as he addresses the UN Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security earlier today.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
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Today is World Migratory Bird Day. The theme is “Every Bird Counts – Your Observations Matter!” highlighting the important role of community science for the conservation of migratory birds.
A view of a Shrike in Kenya (1990)
#WMBD2026
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"Open the Strait. Let all ships pass. Let the global
economy breathe again [...] The world is waiting "
- @antonioguterres
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Today is World Water Day on the theme "Where water flows, equality grows"
A group of women in the Terekeka village in South Sudan pose for a photo by the water pump (2021)
Credit: UN Photo/Gregório Cunha
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Today is World Water Day on the theme "Where water flows, equality grows" x.com/UN_Photo/status/203569…
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Take a look at the UN photo story "The Fight against Racism and the United Nations" ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination :
media.un.org/photo/en/photo-…
#FightRacism
Photo from Soweto, South Africa, 1982
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Islamophobia violates the principles enshrined in the UN Charter
Men walk through a field of tall grass on their way to a mosque for evening prayer in Bamyan, Afghanistan (2009).
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein
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"Let’s eradicate the scourge of Islamophobia from every country and community.”
- @antonioguterres
A view of Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan (2020).
#NoToHate
UN Photo/Mark Garten
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Today is the start of #CSW70
See the UN Photo story on Commission on the Status of Women: media.un.org/photo/en/photo-…
Margaret Bruce speaks with Maria Lavalle Urbina during the 17th #CSW in 1963
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Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls
International Women’s Day 2026 calls for action to dismantle all barriers to equal justice
#IWD2026
Women listen to a class at the Abu Shouk IDP camp in North Darfur, 2010.
UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran
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Today is International Day for #Disarmament and
Non-Proliferation Awareness
Members of rebel forces surrender their weapons in Burundi in 2005. Military groups signed up voluntarily to be disarmed under the auspices of UN peacekeepers.
UN Photo/Martine Perret
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A wide view of today's Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East and #Iran
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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Women, originally from the town of Kutum, pray together for #Ramadan in the city of El Fasher, North Darfur, in 2010.
UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran
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Jesse Jackson, @RevJJackson, US veteran civil rights activist, passed away this morning.
Here with Sonia Gandhi after addressing the UN General Assembly meeting in observance of the International Day of Non-violence in 2007.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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Today is #WorldRadioDay marking the day UN Radio was established in 1946. From war zones to outer space, radio remains essential.
Here a Nepalese singer sings contemporary folk songs for a radio programme in Kathmandu in 1962.
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#ThrowbackThursday to 1961 and two boys watching a river steamer at Puerto Berrio in #Colombia
UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata
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