Experience what it is like to be a 'Blue Helmet' by following one United Nations peacekeeper as she receives training in her home country of Ghana and then deploys to Lebanon as part of a multinational force.

Writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer Gloria Steinem denounces violence against women in a speech at UN Headquarters.

Utilizing material from the UN Audiovisual Library, this production showcases a major force in the feminist movement taking her message to the global stage.

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin, and the class of medical prescription opioids which millions rely on for pain medication worldwide.

While the 2022 harvest was largely exempted from the decree, the Taliban have strictly enforced the ban this year, aggressively eradicating poppy plantations and leaving farmers with limited economic opportunities.

Yokasta Valle is a five-time World Boxing Champion in both in both the International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Organization—but the fight she is most passionate about takes place beyond the ropes where she uses the power of her punch to knock out hate.

Brazilian activist, Valdecir  Nascimento spent her life fighting for women’s rights in her country.

“I want Black women of today to have the power and possibility to decide”, the Executive coordinator of  Odara  Institute  told  UN News during the second session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent from 30 May to 2 June 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Amid the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a UN safe area was established in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1993. But in July 1995, the town was overrun by Bosnian-Serb forces and over 8,000 Bosniak boys and men were killed within a week.

Australian businesswoman and athlete Mina Guli ran 200 marathons across the world in the space of a single year to draw attention to the urgency of our global water crisis.

Her 200th and final marathon took her to the steps of United Nations Headquarters in New York, where she met with world leaders as they gathered for the first UN Water Conference in 50 years to accelerate action on the crisis.

Mariam Leigh is a small-scale farmer in the Central River Region in The Gambia. Like many smallholders, she struggled to make ends meet, not being able to afford agricultural equipment nor fertilizer for her farming. Mariam joined Maruo Farms, a local rice production company founded by Musa Darboe, a Gambian entrepreneur returning from the USA.

See the only dolphin to ever fly through the air over roads and highways. And find out the way to REALLY save dolphins, not just one at a time but across the planet! As the United Nations marks the International Decade for Ocean Science, learn the secrets of a

Portuguese marine biologist and the local fisherwomen she enlists as Guardians of the Sea.

Their campaign to protect the seagrass meadows is making a big difference in the fight against climate change.

In November 2022, the world population eclipsed 8 billion people. For many of us, it represented a milestone that the human family should celebrate — a sign that people are living longer, healthier lives and enjoying more rights and greater choices than ever before.

The relationship between reproductive autonomy and healthier lives is an uncontested truth: as women are empowered to make choices about their bodies and lives, they and their families thrive — and their societies thrive as well.