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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...