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Secretary-General @antonioguterres arrives for a meeting with the United Nations Country Team in Yerevan, Armenia.
UN Photo/Hrant Sahakyan
Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
"Let us mobilize the political will and investments needed to ensure everyone has a safe home, and the opportunity to build a life of dignity, free from poverty."
- @antonioguterres
New York City, 1985
UN Photo
Secretary-General @antonioguterres attends the 17th meeting of the Conference of Parties on the Convention on Biological Diversity.
#COP17Armenia
UN Photo/Hrant Sahakyan
Today is #WorldFoodDay !
Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.
Here Somali refugee children share a meal inside a tent in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia (2011)
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Today is World Mental Health Day - a day to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen @OSE_Yemen, briefs the UN Security Council on the situation in Yemen. At second from left is Inger Ashing, Chief Executive Officer of @save_children.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Peace requires justice
Navi Pillay is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2026 “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”
Here, in Geneva in 2009.
#NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize
UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré
Today is World Post Day
The postal network remains a powerful and enduring instrument of human connection
Hand-cancelling stamps at the local Post Office in Kigali, Rwanda, July 1962
UN Photo/BZ
"On World Post Day, we celebrate a system that does so much more than deliver the mail. With over 660,000 offices and 4.6 million staff, the post connects communities and provides essential services that strive to leave no one behind." - @antonioguterres
Stamp from 1971
Today is World Cotton Day
Cotton is a culture, a way of life, and a tradition with its roots at the heart of human civilization
Girls harvesting cotton at a cotton development project in Nepalgunj, Nepal (1978)
UN Photo/Ray Witlin
Today is International Day of Non-Violence
"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another" - Mahatma Gandhi
A view of Little Amal next to the “Non-Violence” sculpture at UNHQ in 2022
UN Photo/Mark Garten
Today is International Coffee Day!
Coffee connects people across borders and generations.
Coffee beans from Cooperative Café Timor, in Dili, Timor-Leste
UN Photo/Martine Perret
A participant at UN Headquarters on the fourth day of the general debate of the General Assembly’s eighty-first session.
#UNGA
UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist
A view of a rainbow over Long Island City in the evening on the fourth day of the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s eighty-first session.
#UNGA, #NewYorkCity
UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist
A view of the gavel on the podium in the UN General Assembly Hall during the 81st General Assembly Debate.
#UNGA
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Walton Alfonso Webson, Vice-President of the 81st session of #UNGA and Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the UN, walks down from the podium after chairing the meeting on the fifth day of the general debate.
UN Photo/Laura Jarriel
A delegate stretches his legs in the General Assembly Hall on the fourth day of the general debate of the General Assembly’s 81st session.
#UNGA
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
