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Doha Social Summit: Path to fairer societies begins in the classroom
© UNICEF/Nick Sells Students learn digital literacy and life skills at a school in rural Cambodia.…
‘We want to get our lives back,’ Gaza children declare
UN News A teacher engaging with students in a classroom in Deir al-Balah Co-educational Primary School, run by UNRWA.…
Defending truth-tellers, from war zones to the digital frontline
UN News Mourners carry the body of a journalist killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on August 10, 2025.…
India’s Durga Puja, where worship meets social change
© UN News/Rohit Upadhyay A Durga Puja pandal on the theme of riots, urges peace and harmonious community life.…
‘Tidal wave of emotion’ secures win for young Turkish writer in UN competition
© UPU Fifteen-year-old Reyyan Demiriz from Türkiye (centre), has taken first prize in the 54th International…
Sudan: As children continue to suffer, school remains a distant hope
© UNICEF/Mohammed Abdulmajid Girls attend a UNICEF-supported class at a camp for displaced people in Gedaref State,…
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.…