UN Photo/Loey Felipe Secretary-General António Guterres (left) addresses the Security Council High-Level Debate on Collective Action to Improve UN Peacekeeping Operations.

Unrealistic demands on UN peacekeeping costing lives and credibility – Guterres

As the United Nations continues to send peacekeepers to difficult or war-torn environments like Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, those ‘blue helmets’ will need more and better coordinated support among the actors who authorize and deploy them, Secretary-General António Guterres told a Security Council debate on improving UN peacekeeping operations.

UN Photo/Loey Felipe Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the commemorative meeting on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Promote tolerance, respect diversity, UN chief urges ahead of International Day against racial discrimination

Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, UN Secretary-General António Guterres encouraged people worldwide to think about how they can better promote tolerance, inclusion and respect for diversity.

UN Photo/Manuel Elias Secretary-General António Guterres (left) makes remarks during the high-level event to launch the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development 2018–2028”.

World cannot take water for granted, say UN officials at launch of global decade for action

“By 2050, at least one in four people will live in a country where the lack of fresh water will be chronic or recurrent,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the launch of the International Decade for Action.

UN Photo/Manuel Elias Secretary-General António Guterres (left) addresses the Security Council on the situation in Syria.

Syria ‘bleeding inside and out’ as conflict enters eighth year, says UN chief

Despite a United Nations Security Council demand to institute a 30-day ceasefire across Syria, airstrikes, shelling and ground offensives have intensified in Eastern Ghouta, Secretary-General António Guterres reported, warning that the conflict is entering its eighth year with the “grimmest” reality on the ground.

UN Photo/Manuel Elias Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses participants at the observance of International Women’s Day 2018 at UN Headquarters.

International Women’s Day: The ‘time is now’ to transform global push for women’s rights into action – UN

From Latin America to Europe to Asia, on social media, on film sets, on the factory floor and in the streets, women are calling for lasting change and zero tolerance for sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination of all kinds, said Secretary-General António Guterres, declaring that achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls “is the unfinished business of our time, and the greatest human rights challenge in our world.”