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A Venezuelan music teacher and choir director leads a group composed of mostly refugees and migrants from Venezuela, but including Chileans and others from Colombia, Peru and Cuba. IOM

For the first time, part of the original manuscript of Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace was unveiled amid tight security today in Geneva, where it is to take pride of place in an exhibition helping to mark 100 years of cooperation between nations. UNTV CH

To mark the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified legal agreement to protect child rights, UNICEF hosted an event at the General Assembly featuring the #IMAGINE Project – one of the world’s largest-ever combined music recordings, to one of the world’s most loved songs, John Lennon’s Imagine. UNIFEED - UNTV

World-renowned concert pianist and UN Messenger of Peace Lang Lang along with 16-time Grammy Award-winner Sting are set to perform this evening at a concert organized in observance of  United Nations Day (24 Oct). UNIFEED-UNTV/RECENT

Surrounded by a roaring crowd of an estimated 60,000 people, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was joined  by a star-studded roster of the world's leading performers as he helped kick-off the third annual Global Citizen Festival – a celebration of global unity and a reaffirmation of the will to address the planet's most pressing issues. UNTV

The new UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, Victoria Beckham, said "Babies should not be born with HIV." Beckham, who recently traveled to South Africa, said "everybody deserves the right to health. It shouldn’t be dependent on where you live or where you were born." UNIFEED - UNTV

With 500,000 euros provided by the European Union, UNESCO will coordinate the reconstruction of destroyed mausoleums, the rehabilitation of mosques and private libraries in Timbuktu, northern Mali, as well as ancient manuscript conservation projects. Fourteen out of 16 designated world heritage sites in Timbuktu were destroyed by armed groups in 2012. UNIFEED-UNTV /FILE

UNHCR has invited young refugees to paint their messages on a tent for the world to see. This tent, along with three others painted across the country, will be pitched as part of an exhibition marking World Refugee Day. UNHCR

The ILO kicked off the World Day Against Child Labour with the ‘Red Card to Child Labour Campaign’. A song called 'Til Everyone Can See’, was composed for the campaign by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and violinist Ann Marie Simpson and   features singer Pharrell Williams, Oscar winner Hans Zimmer and R&B artist LIZ. ILO

As part of the United Nations-driven process to craft a new sustainable development agenda, a spectacular line up of global artists hit the stage at the world body's New York Headquarters, adding their voices and talents to the unprecedented global conversation under way to build a sustainable future. UNIFEED - UNTV