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Twenty-five years ago, at the  (ICPD), the world agreed that sexual and reproductive health is a human right, that no mother should die while giving life, and that gender-based violence and discrimination have no place in our world. From 12-14 November, governments, advocates, health organizations and others will gather at the Nairobi Summit on , to mobilize the political will and financial commitments to advance the goals of the ICPD and secure the rights and dignity of all.

A UNIFIL peacekeeper from Spain on a regular patrol in the vicinity of Al Wazzani, south-eastern Lebanon as the sun sets in the horizon. Since 1948, more than a million women and men have served as UN peacekeepers.

The United Nations came into being in 1945, following the devastation of the Second World War, with one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security.