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Ellen Margrethe Lǿj, head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said today the history of UN peacekeeping operations, this year will be remembered as the time UNMISS opened its bases to civilians facing a threat of physical violence. UNMISS

Round table discussion with Nane Annan on, Mobilizing Women Leaders for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) in connection with the Millennium Development Goals.  UNTV

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) demanded on Tuesday that the pirates who commandeered a commercial vessel chartered to transport food aid to 28,000 tsunami survivors in Somalia release the ship, its cargo and crew within 48 hours. UNTV

Finding clean water has never been such a simple task for Sok Em. Until a few months ago, she could only draw from a murky pond outside her village. Its water took a toll on her four children. UNICEF

A rare moment in a country on the brink. Making sure no child is forgotten, vaccinators reach out to a passing boat. Mothers happily part with their babies knowing that it will save life and limb. UNICEF

Daniel a young Haitian orphaned by Hurricane Jeanne tells his story. UNICEF

With the world's urban population expected to almost double to more than 5 billion in the next 25 years, governments around the globe will need to build almost 100,000 new housing units a day in order to keep up or else compound the enormous slum conditions that exist now, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) said in a report today. UNTV

Mr. Dennis McNamara, Special Adviser of the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator on Internal Displacement and Director of the Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division, briefing on the situation in Nepal. UNTV

With 179 cases of polio now confirmed in Yemen, the Yemen Ministry of Health has launched a nationwide immunization campaign to break the back of the epidemic and stop the virus traveling further. UNICEF

In Svay Rieng, one of Cambodia's poorest provinces, a trip to the hospital could put a poor family into lifelong debt. Many people have no money to pay for transportation and treatment -- facing a tough choice between borrowing money, going into debt ,or missing treatment altogether. UNICEF