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Security Council to vote on new Gaza force: Here’s what you need to know

·November 18, 2025·3 min read

The proposal building on the 20-point US plan is intended to restore security, ensure humanitarian access and begin a sustained process of reconstruction and institutional reform for the enclave following two years of devastating conflict between Israel and Hamas. A rival draft resolution submitted by Russia is also under formal consideration, but...

Four years on, here’s what total exclusion of women in Afghanistan looks like

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·August 12, 2025·3 min read

Four years after Taliban fighters retook the capital Kabul on 15 August 2021, gender equality agency UN Women is warning that the situation for women and girls in Afghanistan is increasingly untenable. And without urgent action, this untenable reality will become normalised and women and girls will be fully...

From summits to street art to schools: Here’s how we’re marking World Environment Day

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·June 8, 2025·1 min read

Around the world, civil society groups and UN teams are hosting webinars, forums, summits and other diverse celebrations. It’s a collective effort that’s drawing together different wings of the UN from Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to UN Peacekeeping. Worldwide events On Tuesday, Qatar launched a national biodiversity database,...

The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake

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·October 22, 2024·4 min read

Considered the world’s most important event to conserve biodiversity, the summit is taking place in Cali, the third largest city of the South American nation, and will host some 15,000 attendees, including a dozen heads of State, 103 ministers and over 1,000 international journalists. Aiming to promote international cooperation, agree...

Does UN Peacekeeping work? Here’s what the data says

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·December 10, 2022·6 min read

Professor Lise Howard The evidence, collected in 16 peer-reviewed studies, shows that peacekeepers – or ‘blue helmets’ as the moniker goes – significantly reduce civilian casualties, shorten conflicts, and help make peace agreements stick. In fact, the majority of UN Peacekeeping missions succeed in their primary goal, ultimately stabilizing societies...