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Attacks on schools surge by ‘staggering’ 44 per cent over the past year
© UNRWA Schools in Gaza have been turned into shelters for people affected by the conflict.…
The missing half: The urgent need for more women’s representation in the media
UN News/Matt Wells Women journalists working in the press room of the 4th International Conference on Financing for…
Gaza: With a suitcase for a school bag, classrooms have become shelters
UN News Schools in Gaza have been turned into shelters for displaced people.…
Funding cuts could push 6 million more children out of school, warns UNICEF
© UNICEF/Harandane Dicko Young girls who have earned their high school diplomas at their school in a village in Mali.…
Teachers are the ‘guardians of our future’, says UN deputy chief
© ECLAC Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed delivers remarks to the World Summit on Teachers in Santiago, Chile.…
Desks become beds as Haitian school shelters people displaced by violence
© IOM/Antoine Lemonnier Anténor Firmin school in Hinche is now a shelter for people displaced by violence.…
From crisis to classroom: How the UN supports education in conflict zones
© UNRWA An UNRWA school turned shelter in Gaza lies in ruins following an airstrike.…
Stigmatised for being deaf: Zénabou’s Story
UNICEF/ Testa 2025 Zénabou, a deaf teenager in the Central African Republic, is able to go to school thanks to a…
Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins
UN News A boy and two girls playing music inside a tent in Gaza.…
End senseless killings in the West Bank: UN rights office
© UNICEF/Alaa Badarneh School children walk through partially destroyed streets in Jenin in the West Bank. (file)…
8 million teens in world’s wealthiest countries functionally illiterate: UNICEF
UNICEF/Chris Farber/UNICEF via Getty Images UNICEF’s ‘Pandemic Classroom’ installation at UN Headquarters in New York.…
Jazz takes centre stage in Chicago for 2026
Unsplash/Chris Dickens The city of Chicago.…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights among new entries to UNESCO Memory of the World Register
UN Photo Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States holds an English version of the Declaration of Human Rights poster.…
‘Every piece tells a story’: Bombs to beauty, from Gaza to Ukraine
© Courtesy of Stanislav Drokin Ukrainian designer Stanislav Drokin uses shrapnel to make fine jewellery.…
Mind your language: The battle for linguistic diversity in AI
© Unsplash/Steve Johnson The UN Security Council is considering the impact of AI on peace and security.…
‘Racism requires ignorance’: How art and culture can help end racial discrimination
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Sarah Lewis, Associate Professor at Harvard University and Founder of Vision & Justice,…
Crimes of the transatlantic slave trade ‘unacknowledged, unspoken and unaddressed’
UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz Details from the permanent memorial in acknowledgement of the tragedy and in consideration of…
Reject bigotry and discrimination, UN chief says, urging everyone to combat Islamophobia
UN Photo/Helena Mulkerns Peace doves fly on the grounds of the historic Hazrat-i-Ali mosque, in the city of…
Bahrain’s pearling legacy: Reviving a millennia-old culture
Danat/Bahrain A diver is diving for pearls in Bahrain. Pearling in the Persian Gulf shaped Bahrain’s economy for…
Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan
© UNICEF/Ahmed Mohamdeen Elfatih Wisam is among many children returning to school in Port Sudan amid the ongoing war.…