The United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) team in Ukraine supports the rotation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in April 2023. Photo: Artem Chystiak
This exhibition offers a glimpse into the daily work of United Nations personnel around the world. Featuring 80 finalist photographs selected by an international jury from over 800 submissions to the global “UN Staff at Work” contest, the images were contributed by UN staff from more than 80 countries and many different UN agencies and missions, such as FAO, MONUSCO, OCHA, UNDP, UNMISS, UNICEF, UN Women, UNESCO, WFP, WHO, and others.
Through these photos, visitors can see UN personnel in action—delivering humanitarian aid, supporting peace and security, advancing sustainable development, promoting multilateral diplomacy, and ensuring essential operations both in the field and at the Headquarters—capturing the diversity, dedication, and global impact of the UN’s work.
Organized by the UNSRC Photographic Society and co-sponsored by the United Nations Staff Union at New York Headquarters, the exhibition celebrates the UN’s 80th Anniversary and honors the people behind its mission.
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, met with visiting world leaders in his office at UN Headquarters on 8 March 2024. Photo: Marc Latrique
A bugler of the UN Guard Unit performs at a Medal Parade honouring uniformed personnel of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) at the UN Compound in September 2022. Photo: Sourav Sarker
Peacekeepers Sergeant Glancy-Richards of the British Army and Lieutenant Colonel Danica Borzová, a UN Police officer from Slovakia, patrol the buffer zone in Cyprus. Photo: Peter ?ulgan
A Pakistani peacekeeper aboard a mission vehicle patrols in Uvira, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to help safeguard civilians. Photo: Jean Claude Wenga
Members of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) conduct Exercise OP Horus in the UN Protected Area, Nicosia, enhancing readiness to respond to extreme situations. Photo: Mamer Bajrami
In a 2016 photo at the United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) warehouse in Brindisi, interns Tianchan Wang and Daniela Attorre from the Supply Chain Service illustrate key peacekeeping logistics functions. Photo: Rossana Palermo
Mohamed Elsaadawey, Digital Communications Officer at UNDP Egypt, joined UN Volunteers and the Egyptian Food Bank in Cairo in November 2023 to prepare food boxes for families in Gaza—showcasing solidarity and humanitarian action across borders. Photo: Mohamed Elsaadawey
In Dakar, Senegal, workers load equipment from Mali during the closure of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the UN’s largest logistical drawdown, moving thousands of cargo units and personnel in six months. Photo: Michelle Alves de Lima
X-ray container inspection training at the Port of Malé, Maldives, organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Passenger and Cargo Control Programme, June 2025. Photo: Hugo Bartoli
A company of Malaysian Battalion (MALBATT) conducts a regular foot patrol as part of its operational duties within its designated area of responsibility. The patrol reflects the continuous commitment of MALBATT to fulfilling its tasks under the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Photo: Syaiful Bin Shahidan
Since 2014, Rwandan Battalion 2 (RWANBATT-2) has provided 24/7 protection at the Malakal Protection of Civilians (POC) site in South Sudan, ensuring a calm and stable security situation. Photo: Fred Marere
On 22 May 2025, in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal Engineer Company-28 carries out an urgent rescue operation after a four-story building under construction collapsed in heavy rainfall. Photo: Dijon Rana
In 2024, in L?dek-Zdrój, Poland, International Organization for Migration (IOM) field teams worked alongside local crisis management to provide information and psychosocial support to residents of nearby villages affected by floods. Photo: Alexey Shivrin
Staff of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the field speak with a homeowner whose house was destroyed during a 46-hour Israeli military operation, addressing the family’s displacement in the Jenin Refugee Camp, northern occupied Palestinian territories. Photo: Yousef Natour
Christine Fossen, Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), from Norway, leads the police component of UNMISS. Photo: Selma Lotfi
Personnel of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) practice unexploded ordnance (UXO) marking while patrolling east of the Berm in Western Sahara. Photo: Tanja Pfeifer
First Lieutenant Jirayut Kaewyod, a peacekeeper from the Thailand Horizontal Military Engineer Company (THAI HMEC), observes a grader at work on a dusty road near Rumbek, South Sudan. Photo: Wittaya Chareerut
Chinese Horizontal Military Engineer Company-15 (CHN HMEC-15) in Wau, South Sudan, carries out road rehabilitation for the newly built refugee camp. Photo: Xiaokun Zhang
United Nations Honour Guards, including Corporal Parody of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment (British Army), lead the ANZAC Day sunrise ceremony on the morning of 25 April 2025 at Waynes Keep Cemetery in the UN Buffer Zone in Nicosia, Cyprus. Photo: Dominic House
Lorena Tavares, from the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, arrives by UN helicopter in Miraflores, Guaviare, deep in the Colombian Amazon, delivering educational materials to support dialogue with Indigenous women and highlighting the UN’s commitment to reconciliation, cultural respect, and community-led peacebuilding. Photo: Francisco Javier Romero Díaz
Indian peacekeepers of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) stand guard as a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy navigates a remote area in South Sudan. Photo: Karan Joseph
A staff member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) inspects bags of fertilizer stored in a warehouse in Bunkpurugu District, Northern Ghana, as part of a European Union-funded food security response project. Photo: George Koranteng Danso
Bangladeshi peacekeepers of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) demonstrate vigilance in providing protection for civilians in Wau, South Sudan, on 18 October 2023. Photo: Soraya Semmar Alami
Josefina Cheia, a Gender-Based Violence Associate with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Mozambique, leads a community sensitization session with newly displaced women and girls in Cabo Delgado province. Photo: Isadora Zoni
Staff of the World Food Programme (WFP) conduct a humanitarian needs assessment with Arhuaco Indigenous leaders (Mamus) in the rural mountains of Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia, on 29 May 2025. Photo: Gonzalo Galezo
Rania Abdulraheem, staff member of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), engages with an elderly woman at the Al-Sha'b internally displaced persons site in Aden Governorate, Yemen. Photo: Rania Abdulraheem
Shirin Aktar from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, works as a Protection Associate in Cox’s Bazar, marking her 12th year with UNHCR. Photo: Tessa Asamoah
Nepalese Batallion NEPBATT-XXXI swiftly conducts a medical evacuation operation under the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) during a critical emergency in Fataki on 25 March 2025. Photo: Anmol Bikram Pandey
NEPBATT-XXXI conducts a medical evacuation operation under the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) during a critical emergency in Fataki on 25 March 2025. Photo: Anmol Bikram Pandey
From 28 June to 1 July 2025, a second round of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) vaccination campaign was conducted on the waterways in Makoko settlement in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Chinenye Okafor
Vietnamese Senior Captain Anh Vu Nguyen, Military Observer of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), gently comforts a local girl during a community outreach activity in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: Anh Vu Nguyen
On 30 March 2025, a young refugee girl with a fractured lower leg was brought to the Chinese Level 1+ Peacekeeping Hospital in Lebanon, where orthopedic surgeon Dr. Xin Peng performed a manual reduction while gynecologist Dr. Gao Yan tried to comfort her. Photo: Gao Yan
Katia da Costa, UNICEF Child Protection Officer in Guinea-Bissau, carrying out the birth registration campaign in the Oio region in October 2023. Photo: Fadel Gomes da Silva
Rwandan Battalion 2 (Rwanbatt-2) provides free medical health services to residents of a protection-of-civilians site in Malakal, South Sudan. Photo: Fred Marere
Dr. Boston Zimba, Head of Immunization of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Kenya, joined vaccinated children in Kajiado county as they display their marked fingers during the nationwide Measles, Rubella and Typhoid Conjugate Vaccination Campaign in July 2025. Photo: Genna Print
Members of the UN-Women Communications Teams from UN Headquarters and Colombia walk through the Pondores Territorial Training and Reintegration Spaces. Photo: Karina Terán
At the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in 2025, Nathalie Delorme of UN Geneva’s Beyond Lab moderates high-level panels, bringing youth perspectives to global discussions on sustainable financing and intergenerational equity. Photo: Nathalie Delorme
A UN peacekeeper conducts an awareness-raising session on witchcraft and charlatanism for a group of five women in the Gozamar II neighbourhood of Ndele, Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture, Central African Republic. Photo: Joko Riyono Asnan
Laja Lako Busuk, an engineer for the Enhancing Community Resilience Project of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in South Sudan, demonstrates how to use the pump for a newly constructed borehole built for the community in Kapoeta North, Eastern Equatoria State. Photo: Kenyi Moses
Kahlil Attalah from the Greening Committee of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is working with a company on the installation of solar panels for the UN offices at Bleue House in Tunisia. Photo: Sarra Kalfat
Food and Agriculture Organization experts demonstrate how to manually triple rinse containers used for organic pest control on 28 May 2024, in Baidibek Bi village, Almaty region, Kazakhstan. Photo: Elnara Bainazarova
Yehia Salah, a Food and Agriculture Organization technical expert in Egypt, works with local grape producers in Tiba, Nubaria, on 8 July 2018. Yehia taught farmers how to check the soil to make sure that it is free of diseases. Photo: Heba Khamis
In Kalehe Territory, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) assists nearly 1,000 women affected by flooding. Photo: Junior Mayindu
In Bandiagara, Mali, Fadi Tamboura works with displaced women to produce peanut oil. Forced to flee due to insecurity, internally displaced women formed the Kana Women’s Association, joining forces with women from host communities. Photo: Amadou Kane
A staff member from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) shares a moment with girls from the community in San Matías of Bolivia, who received educational materials, while their families were supported with basic relief supplies during a forest fire. Photo: Karen Andrea Pe?a Suarez
Zeljko Stevanovic, Bor Field Office Operations Team Leader of the United Nations Police Force, is teaching mutual respect and trust to a small child from a local internally displaced persons camp. Photo: Zeljko Stevanovic
An Indian peacekeeper actively engages with students at Fertait Primary School of South Sudan, going beyond his security duties to assist with teaching and learning. Photo: Shaik Saffi
Children at Ensino Basico Central 3 Santa Maria School in Ainaro Vila, Timor-Leste, receive health cards after being screened under the School-Based Primary Health Care Package, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country. Photo: Ronalda Fernandes
Lorey Campese, a Communications Officer for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), pays a field visit to the Puerto Antioquia community in Boja?a, Chocó, Colombia. Photo: Catalina Betancur Sánchez
Ezzedin Adam Mohamad Adam, World Health Organization(WHO) Community Systems Strengthening Officer, facilitates a community health dialogue in the village of Abu Gaw in North Darfur, Sudan, on 25 April 2022. Photo: Lindsay Mackenzie Cheung
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary?General for Afghanistan with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and Indrika Ratwatte, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, meet with Afghan female farmers in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province. Photo: Ahmad Khalid Khaliqi
In Juba, South Sudan, a UN policewoman from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) conducts school sensitization about sexual and gender-based violence. Photo: Rohey Touray
Bebey Michelle Tchania, a UN Volunteer, gives a voice to local community members through her work as a radio producer with Guira FM in the Central African Republic. Photo: Soraya Semmar Alami
Staff at the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) distribute items during a community gathering. Photo: Paulus Supit
A traditional Murle dance in Pibor, South Sudan. This is what peace looks like when it takes root - cultures unite, children smile and blue helmets dance not as soldiers, but as symbols of shared humanity. Amid song, colour and tradition, peace finds its rhythm. Photo: Raafli Raafli
Nuriat Tushemerirwe, a Security Officer with the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), at a crowd-control post during the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly held at the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Photo: Chris Muturi Kariyo
Senior Security Officer Gerry Manampan guides a delegate at the 46th Street and First Avenue entrance of UN Headquarters in New York on 26 September 2024, during the annual General Debate of the 79th United Nations General Assembly. Photo: Harpreet S. Gill
Staff from diverse nations came together to honour peacekeepers worldwide and to celebrate the spirit of unity under the UN flag at a UN Peacekeeping Day marathon organized by the MONUSCO Welfare Team in Beni-Mavivi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 29 May 2025. Photo: Mukesh K Devadiga
A South Sudanese child smiles beside Benazir Ahmed, Police Adviser from Egypt with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers in Juba. Photo: Benazir Ahmed
The Sri Lanka Aviation Team of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) holds the annual parade to recognize and reward the efforts of the aviation team after its first year of service at the Bria Field Office. Photo: Sebastian Omondi Nyawalo
In front of the old mosque of Chinguetti, Mauritania, the guardian of a family library speaks with a colleague from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) about their joint efforts to preserve cultural and documentary heritage. Photo: Ming Kuok Lim
A staff member from UNESCO was on a mission to assess the impact of floods in Meroe Island on World Heritage sites in Khartoum, Sudan. Photo: Heidi Mirza
An UN Women team visits Café La Trocha, a business owned by the women ex-combatants from Las Manuelitas, who signed the peace agreement in Colombia. Photo: Karina Terán
UNDP, alongside UN Volunteers, the Ambassador of Finland to Thailand, and disability rights networks, walked across Bangkok’s Ploenchit intersection to promote accessibility and inclusive urban design. Photo: Sukuma Uttarak
The UNESCO team in Kazakhstan ascends the gentle slope toward the “ice wall” of the Bogdanovich Glacier. Photo: Altyntomiris Baltabayeva
Duncan Moore of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) documents the intimate lives of the Gelada monkeys high in Simien Mountains National Park in Ethiopia. Photo: Ahmed Nayim Yussuf
George Akorimo, Explosive Detection Dog Handler with UN Mine Action in Somalia, attended to a member of the K-9 squad, Megan, at the UN compound in Mogadishu during the observance of Mine Action Day, on 4 April 2024. Photo: Sourav Sarker
Titan, a member of the K-9 squad, has a bird's eye view of the UN General Assembly Hall. Photo: Robert Fealy
Scientist Clarissa Jazmin Rios Rojas sits in negotiations, surrounded by diplomats during a meeting of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Mariia Koroleva
Betsy Ntongai, a civil servant at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), actively works to combat racism and discrimination. Here, she chairs a conference marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Photo: Morard Philippe
From behind the scenes, colleagues from UN Women frame the General Assembly through their camera lenses, aiming to capturing the spirit of and to memories International Women’s Day. Photo: Silvia M?rkli García
Xiaoke Wu, who joined the UN in 2003 and who is now Chief of the Chinese Interpretation Section, is providing simultaneous interpretation for a meeting in the UN General Assembly Hall. Photo: Rong Jiang
Mr. Maoqi Li, Chief of the Chinese Language Unit at UN News, records a video at UN Headquarters in New York. A former China Central Television anchor, he has been with the UN since 2005, delivering multilingual news that simplifies UN processes and shares field stories worldwide. Photo: Rong Jiang
Inside the Security Council Chamber at UN Headquarters in New York, tour guide James, from Guyana, speaks with visitors on a guided tour about the pivotal role of the Security Council in maintaining international peace and security. Photo: Hichem Mohamed Mezioud
Peter Leonard, Library Assistant, works at the Dag Hammarskj?ld Library, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, at UN Headquarters in New York. Photo: Geraldo Gonzalez
In June 2025, new UN staff took the Oath of Office, reaffirming their commitment as international civil servants in hybrid GO2UN Welcome Ceremonies. The induction programme inspires them to serve with integrity, competence, and efficiency, as outlined in the UN Charter. Photo: Jodi Nooyen
Nyu Wang of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs at UN Headquarters busily prepares for the 2025 Science, Technology and Innovation Forum. Photo: Nyu Wang
At UN Kids Day, UNHQ tour guide Mykola from Ukraine introduces children to the UN’s Virtual Reality outreach, letting them explore peacekeeping, humanitarian work, and international cooperation while inspiring the next generation of global citizens. Photo: Hichem Mohamed Mezioud
The United Nations Singers, part of the UN Staff Recreation Council, after a May 2024 concert at UNHQ. The multicultural choir, comprising UN staff, delegates, and guests from over 30 nationalities, performs pieces in more than 50 languages, promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding, celebrating unity in diversity. Photo: Cristina Serban
This exhibit was launched in October 2025