Whether we are scrolling through our digital newsfeeds, watching TV or reading newspapers, we are bound to hear or read about the United Nations Security Council. Heated discussions in the Council chamber or, more recently, in open videoconferences, as well as historic resolutions on important developments affecting peace and security around the world, often make headlines.

Global antibiotic resistance is a growing threat in which disease-causing bacteria develop the ability to resist the drugs designed to kill them.

La décolonisation est l'une des réalisations notables des Nations Unies.   

Quand les Nations Unies ont été fondées, quelques 750 millions de personnes, presqu’un tiers de la population mondiale, vivaient sous le joug d’une puissance coloniale. Aujourd’hui, moins de deux millions vivent dans 17 territoires non autonomes.

Decolonization is one of the notable achievements of the United Nations. When the United Nations was founded, some 750 million people, nearly a third of the world's population, lived under colonial rule. Today, fewer than 2 million people in 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories. Watch short film: United Nations and Decolonization: Past to Present. 

ARMS, in the Department of Operational Support (DOS), supports researchers from all over the world who come to New York to pour over documents chronicling 75 years of UN history, including its many peacekeeping and political missions.

On 20 October, the UN will unveil the 75 best photos from the photo competition #TheWorldWeWant in an online exhibit to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. 

2020 marks 75 years since the founding of the United Nations. Though we have faced many unprecedented challenges with COVID-19 this year, the pandemic has reminded us why we need to keep working together as a global community.

The United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) has developed a coin to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.

To highlight the important role of women in peacemaking, and to mark the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security (WPS), the Gender, Peace, and Security Unit (GPS) in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs has launched a new web page dedicated to inclusive and gender responsive mediation. The page is part of the UN Peacemaker website, DPPA’s online mediation support tool.

On 29 September 2020, the Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, Atul Khare, and the head of the European Union Delegation to the UN, Ambassador Olof Skoog, signed an agreement to strengthen operational cooperation in international peace operations and crisis management. Watch Video