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UN peacekeepers are currently serving on 14 missions worldwide and two top women UN Peacekeeping leaders have shared their thoughts in the Huffington Post for International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March every year. This year the occasion is calling for everyone to make pledges to end violence against women and girls.

Meet them and read their essays here:

“A Promise Is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women”
–Karin Landgren, Special representative, United Nations Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Liberia

“Empower the Women of the World’s Youngest Nation — South Sudan”
–Hilde Johnson, Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General in South Sudan

Find out more about how women contribute to peace in this video.

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Here’s a selection of photos and videos you may have missed posted on UN social media accounts from around the UN system over the past few weeks and shared with our social media team. Thank you to all who contributed!

World Food Programme (WFP) video producer Marco Frattini talks about Syrian refugees he met during a recent trip to Lebanon. Thanks to our colleagues @WFP for posting this video and more on their Twitter account.

This child at the Dadaabr refugee camp in Kenya tries to look serious as he eats his breakfast while his friends are smiling besides him. Thanks to WFP colleague Challis McDonough for posting this picture and more on her Twitter account.

A WFP convoy distributes food & non-food items to a school in South Sudan with help from peacekeepers working as part of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS). Thanks to our colleagues at UNMISS for posting this and more on their Facebook page.

The cold weather associated with Winter is especially hard for Syrian children who are in need of warm clothes, shoes and more. Thanks to UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow for posting this and more on her Twitter account. You can also watch her video field diary here.

A little girl uses a computer she received through “One Laptop per Child” programme in Uruguay. Thanks to our UN Development Programme (@UNDP) for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account.

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Karin Landgren meets Nobel Laureates Leymah Gbowee, Jody Williams and Mairead Maguire to highlight women’s role in peace reconciliation. Thanks to @UNMIL for posting this picture and more on their Twitter account.

Our Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) colleague David Gough took this photo of Syrian children outside a shelter in Dera’a. Thanks to @UNICEFmena for posting this photo and more on their Twitter account.

A farmer shows the courgette he has grown with UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) seeds, training and fertilizer in Burundi. Thanks to @FAOemergencies for posting this picture and more on their Twitter account.

World Food Programme (WFP) staff were on hand for last week’s important talks on hunger, malnutrition and poverty during the World Economic Forum in Davos. Thanks to our WFP colleague Molly Slotznick for posting this on her Twitter account. Ban Ki-moon was also on hand discussing the health of women and girls and called for unified action on crises in Syria and Mali.

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