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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Sexual misconduct allegations in UN missions topped 100 in 2024, UN says

A U.N. report says allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation in U.N. peacekeeping and political missions topped 100 for the third time in the last 10 years in 2024.

From left, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar pose for a photo, ahead of a meeting to discuss the future of stalled peace talks over the divided island of Cyprus at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Pierre Albouy/Keystone via AP)

UN chief praises new talks on reviving the peace process for divided Cyprus

In this photo taken from video released by Ansar Allah Media Office via Al Masirah TV channel shows a wounded child being taken for treatment at a hospital in Saada, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025 following airstrikes over multiple targets in the country. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the overnight strikes killed at least 31 people, including women and children, and wounded over 100 in the capital of Sanaa and the northern province of Saada, the rebels' stronghold on the border with Saudi Arabia.( Al Masirah TV via AP)

US and Iran-backed Houthis both vow escalation after US airstrikes target rebels in Yemen

U.N. Secretary General's Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart, center, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides, left, and the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar talk as they attend the UN's end of year reception at Ledras Palace inside the U.N buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Turkish Cypriot group fears that local leader is Ankara’s man who wants to partition Cyprus

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, left, and Bangladesh's Chief Adviser and Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, stand together before they broke fast with Rohingya refugees at the Ukhiya camp in Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

UN chief describes aid cuts as ‘a crime’ during visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

UN chief slams aid cuts during visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday denounced the humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and other countries in Europe. Guterres was on a four-day visit to Bangladesh where he is assessing the plight of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees whose future remained uncertain over possible aid cuts soon. (AP Video by Al Emrun Garjon)

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Rohingya refugees collect food stuff distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) at their refugee camp at Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

UN chief in Bangladesh for a first-hand look at Rohingya camps as he pushes for aid

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at the UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

UN launches reform initiative as it nears its 80th anniversary and faces funding cuts

Passengers rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by insurgents comfort each other upon their arrival at a railway station in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani insurgents attack a train carrying hundreds of people and take hostages

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop holds a joint press conference with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Sydney, on Aug. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

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Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz, File)

Confronting backlash against women’s rights, 193 nations commit to speed action on gender equality

Tetyana Bobina and her daughter Aleksandra receive humanitarian aid provided by UN World Food Program and ADRA charity organisation for the residents of the region and internally displaced persons at the distribution center in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze

Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz, File)

Women’s rights are under attack 30 years after leaders adopted a blueprint for equality, UN says

Friends, family and soccer fans attend a public memorial ceremony for slain hostage Tsachi Idan, a fan of Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C., who was killed in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Mourners bury one of the last hostages released from Gaza as talks start for ceasefire future

People transport the body of a man who died during a gang attack in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

UN chief details his proposal to help mission in Haiti fight gangs in a letter obtained by AP

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN chief Guterres says human rights are being suffocated by autocrats and warmongers

Kenyan police, who are part of a UN-backed multinational force, pray on the tarmac after landing at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Guterres to propose UN assumes funding for mission struggling to fight gangs in Haiti

Israelis hold flags as a convoy carrying the coffins of four bodies handed over by Hamas militants in Gaza drives by a road near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Israel has identified three of the bodies as hostages and said the other was of an unknown person. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Middle East latest: Israel says child hostages identified but other released body not their mother

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza spill a red liquid, symbolizing blood, in Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, during a rally marking 500 days of captivity and demanding their release. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Middle East latest: Hamas will free 6 Israeli hostages and the bodies of 4 others

People walk past an independence square in Bukavu, eastern Congo, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)

Rwanda-backed rebels advance and Congolese forces retreat from eastern Congo’s second largest city

Displaced Palestinians make their way from central Gaza to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: Israel threatens to restart war in Gaza if Hamas doesn’t release hostages

Zawadi Sifa, right, 35, mother of seven, who has been fleeing fighting from camp to camp, carries water in her latest displaced camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2025.(AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

A family fleeing violence in eastern Congo sees little hope as rebels grab more land

Red Cross personnel load bodies of victims of the fighting between Congolese government forces and M23 rebels in a truck in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, as the U.N. health agency said 900 died in the fight. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Rwanda-backed rebels tell residents of a captured eastern Congolese city they are safe

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, right, meets with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Middle East latest: Palestinians say Trump’s proposal for Gaza violates international law

Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, 29, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025.(AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: Eight hostages are released from Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners

People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim major Congolese city, which Congo calls a ‘declaration of war’

This photo released by the International Committee of the Red Cross shows its officials helping prisoners prepare to be freed by Yemen's Houthi rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (International Committee of the Red Cross via AP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels unilaterally release 153 war detainees, Red Cross says

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN suspends all trips into Houthi-held areas of Yemen over 7 more staffers being detained

A Palestinian boy carries his belongings as he walks with his family next to the rubble of destroyed homes, after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)

Middle East latest: 4 Israeli women soldiers will be next hostages freed from Gaza

A wounded security officer looks on after being shot by armed gangs at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean Feguens Regala)

UN chief warns gangs could overrun Haiti’s capital without additional international security support

Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks during a plenary session in the Congress Hall during the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Davos 2025: Trade, tariffs, AI and UN chief Guterres dominate World Economic Forum agenda

Residents cross a river to Venezuela from Colombia's Tibu, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, following guerrilla attacks that killed dozens and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Catatumbo region. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombians flee to Venezuela as clashes between rebel groups escalate in coca-rich border region

Manual Aslim walks through the rubble of her destroyed home, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s top general resigns over Oct. 7 failures, adding to pressure on Netanyahu

Palestinians chase humanitarian aid trucks that arrived through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: Israel launches a major West Bank operation, days after Gaza ceasefire

President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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