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What does it take to be a United Nations worker in some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous locations? How are health workers, humanitarians and peacekeepers racing to protect the mo...
Bintou Keita knows instinctively that some moments call for a more human response than words alone can offer. Once, at a ceremony to mark th...
A medical doctor by training, Dr. Felipe Paullier is a passionate advocate for young people. Two years ago, aged just 32, his life took a ne...
After enlisting at 18, Cheryl Pearce battled rigid gender barriers to rise through the military ranks. Now the UN's Acting Military Adviser...
Jean-Martin Bauer was just a teenager when a visit to his uncle's Haitian rice farm planted the seed of his life-long passion for food secur...
Former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock is a new face at the United Nations. Sworn in as President of the General Assembly in Septe...
Filippo Grandi has devoted more than three decades to easing the suffering of refugees: "My pride after all these years is that the center o...
Every day at noon, Stéphane Dujarric steps on stage to field questions about the United Nations from international journalists. As spokesman...
A life-long humanitarian, Matthias Schmale has borne witness to a number of seismic moments in world history. Currently United Nations Resid...
How does one out of five sisters from rural Nigeria grow up to be UN Deputy Secretary-General? Blessed with tenacity, determination and grit...
Whenever a new cancer patient entered her office in the U.S., Dr. May Abdel-Wahab knew she could help by palliating their pain and working t...
Every day, Peter Hawkins wakes up filled with determination to make a difference. As the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Representat...
Vivian van de Perre's calling is to help nations transition from conflict to peace. Now the deputy head of peacekeeping in the Democratic Re...
Yacoub El Hillo spent more than thirty years serving refugees and displaced people in some of the world's worst conflict zones. But when cat...
With her background in human rights law, Georgette Gagnon was once said to represent the conscience of war. Currently serving as the Secreta...
As a young white activist in South Africa, Nicholas Haysom risked detention to oppose the apartheid regime, later working alongside Nelson M...
Rather than follow in the footsteps of his late father, a Nobel-prize winning writer, Gonzalo Vargas Llosa opted instead to serve humanity....
Our troubled world can be a source of great joy, and great suffering. United Nations staff witness both, day in day out, as they serve human...
Having grown up in war-torn rural Zimbabwe, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda overcame extreme hardship to pursue a career at the highest levels of th...
Catherine Russell never forgets the children she meets. As Executive Director of UNICEF, she bears witness to the stories of tens of million...
Carmen Corbin dreamt of serving with the United Nations from an early age. Now head of transnational organized crime, illicit trafficking an...
Celeste Saulo has always been fascinated by the weather. Now Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), she is seeing...
Having overcome a childhood marked by violence, abuse and neglect, Benjamin Perks has always drawn strength from an innate sense of optimism...
UN official Laura Dolci was feeding her baby son when she heard the devastating news that her husband Jean-Sélim Kanaan had been killed in a...
As a doctor, Dr. Hans Kluge helped save lives in some of the toughest places on Earth. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Dire...
Arif Husain has spent the past decade raising his voice on behalf of those struggling to get enough to eat. Now Chief Economist at the World...
Conflict, famine, humanitarian disasters, climate change. Our world and its peoples are facing huge challenges. Wherever and whenever crisis...
Acclaimed actor, filmmaker and three-time Academy Award nominee Edward Norton has long been raising his voice on behalf of the planet and it...
Muhannad Hadi knew that humanitarian work was his calling from an early age. Now UN Deputy Special Coordinator and humanitarian coordinator...
Growing up as a refugee in Burundi, Juliette Murekeyisoni dedicated herself to helping others from an early age. In her recent role as UNHCR...
Matthew Hollingworth has worked in conflict zones around the world, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria. Previously in charge of the World...
Growing up on a farm, Beth Bechdol never dreamed of following in her agricultural family's footsteps. Now Deputy Director-General of the UN'...
Born in Brazil to German parents, Achim Steiner knows first hand the power of cultural exchange to drive international cooperation. Now head...
Volker Türk has the greatest respect for those able to hold onto hope when all appears to be lost. As United Nations High Commissioner for H...
Amy Pope has always championed humane and orderly migration as an opportunity for societies, not a problem. Now the first female Director Ge...
Big or small, Joyce Msuya has always found ways to give back. Now Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency...
Doreen Bogdan-Martin's fascinating career handed her a front row seat for the digital revolution . Now Secretary-General of the Internationa...
Appointed to a senior UN role aged just 26, Jayathma Wickramanayake's career trajectory testifies to the power of education. Now senior poli...
A former child refugee, Mohamed Yahya knows the life-long pain of yearning for a lost home. That's why some of his most emotional experience...
Philippe Lazzarini holds one of the most challenging positions in the whole of the United Nations. As head of the United Nations Relief and...
Conflict, humanitarian disasters, climate change. Our world and its people are facing huge challenges. Wherever and whenever crisis hits, th...
Karolina Lindholm Billing was posted to Ukraine less than a year before the full-scale Russian invasion. As the UNHCR Representative in the...
Cindy McCain has many pressing reasons to lie awake at night. As Head of the World Food Programme, it is her job to make sure the millions o...
Christian Ritscher 's work brings him into contact with some of humanity's worst outrages. As head of the United Nations investigative team...
A committed public servant, Gordon Brown has a strong sense of social responsibility. Now United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education,...
Dr. Alice Jill Edwards spends many of her days listening to the testimonies of torture victims. Now the UN's Special Rapporteur on torture a...
A former judge, Catherine Marchi-Uhel has spent a lifetime pursuing justice. Now, leading the quest for accountability for atrocities and wa...
Lewis Pugh was never afraid to take the plunge. Now ocean advocate for the United Nations Environment Programme, the record-breaking cold-wa...
Erasmia Roumana's job requires extraordinary strength. Working in Greece as a protection associate with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, she in...
Stephen Jackson fell hard for Africa three decades ago, and never looked back. Now the UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya, he channels his pas...
Reena Ghelani knows all too well the jarring silence of a crowded malnutrition ward. Now United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Famine...