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Q1 :

NICA ID=52812|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=09/06/1947|
HEADER=Drafting Committee on International Bill of Rights (Commission on Human Rights, EcoSoc Council)
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q2 :

NICA ID=150950|
CITY=Paris|
PHOTO DATE=01/09/1948|
HEADER=Secretary-General Trygve Lie meets with French Delegate Robert Schumann|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Premier Robert Schumann hands to Secretary-General Trygve Lie the Symbolic key to the Palais de Chaillot, 1 September 1948.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=France|

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Q6 :

NICA ID=31425|
CITY=Geneva (Palais des Nations)|
PHOTO DATE=01/07/1994|
HEADER=Exterior View of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=A view of the Palais des Nations with the Manship Sphere in the foreground. The Sphere was designed by Paul Manship, an American sculptor and donated to the League of Nations by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. It is made of broze and represents the signs of the Zodiac|
CREDIT=UN Photo/P Klee|
COUNTRY=Switzerland|

Q7 :

NICA ID=160329|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=05/11/2007|
HEADER=General Assembly Supports Promotion of Democracy|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Wide-view of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly, on the United Nations systems support of the efforts of governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies, at UN Headquarters in New York.
CREDIT=UN Photo/Ryan Brown|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q8 :

NICA ID=141312|
CITY=Geneva|
PHOTO DATE=20/03/2007|
HEADER=Fourth Session of Human Rights Council |
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Wide-view of the fourth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/Jean-Marc FerrÈ|
COUNTRY=Switzerland|

Q9 :

NICA ID=117895|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=09/05/2006|
HEADER=Electing Members of Newly-established Human Rights Council|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Wide view of the first election of 47 members of the newly established Human Rights Council (HRC) held by the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, at UN Headquarters in New York.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Evan Schneider|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q10 :

NICA ID=141867|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=30/03/2007|
HEADER=Signing of New UN Convention on Rights of Disabled Persons|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the signing ceremony of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which aims to secure the rights of some 650 million persons with disabilities around the world. More than 75 countries participated in the signing ceremony, the most for the opening of any treaty. The event, held in the UN General Assembly Hall, at UN Headquarters in New York, was also attended by over 350 representatives of disability organizations from around the world, who were instrumental in the negotiation of the treaty.
CREDIT=UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q11 :

NICA ID=25863|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=27/05/2003|
HEADER=Secretary-General Names UN Human Rights Chief as Special Representative for Iraq
CAPTION BACKGROUND=
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Sergio Vieira De Mello, United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, answers correspondents' questions after the official announcement of his appointment by Secretary-General Kofi Annan as his Special Representative for Iraq for a period of four months.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Evan Schneider|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q12 :

NICA ID=52811|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=09/06/1947|
HEADER=Drafting Committee on International Bill of Rights
(Commission on Human Rights, EcoSoc Council)
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Henri Laugier, UN ASG in charge of Dept. of Social Affairs; Mrs. Eleanor D. Roosevelt, USA, chairman. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q13 :

NICA ID=84550|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=Champion of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION="Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right"|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q14 :

NICA ID=72838|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=10/12/1998|
HEADER=CHILDREN'S PASSPORT VERSION OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON DECLARATION'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Secretary-General Kofi Annan speaks with children prior to ceremony at which children's passport versions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were given to three United Nations Peace Messengers: author and journalist Anna Cataldi, actor Michael Douglas, and opera singer Luciano Pavarotti. The event marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/Evan Schneider|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q15 :

NICA ID=114270|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=15/03/2006|
HEADER=In 'Historic' Vote, General Assembly Creates New UN Human Rights Council|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=In a historic vote, the General Assembly decides to create the Human Rights Council. The resolution was adopted by an overwhelming vote of 170 in favour with 4 against (the United States, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau) with Venezuela, Iran and Belarus abstaining.|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Wide view of the plenary meeting of the General Assembly during which that body, in a historic decision, voted 170 in favour and four against, to establish the new United Nations Human Rights Council, today at UN Headquarters in New York. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/Mark Garten|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q16 :

NICA ID=29795|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=10/12/2003|
HEADER=HELLO WORLD PROJECT: WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=On the occasion of the fIrst-ever World Summit on the Information Society (10-12 December), a ground-breaking media art installation by Swiss artist Johannes Gees which publicizes the Summit by projecting laser messages on the north fayade of the United Nations Building and three other global landmarks, while making them simultaneously available worldwide through the Internet. To publicize the Summit, the United Nations agreed with the Federal Office of Culture of Switzerland - the Summit host country -- to feature on its Secretariat Building this art installation, the Helloworld Project, which utilizes the information technologies being discussed at the Summit. On the first day of the Summit and to observe Human Rights Day, 10 December, United Nations messages about human rights were projected onto the north face wall of the Secretariat building. "No Slavery" message on the UN Secretariat building. |
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q17 :

NICA ID=62127|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=24/02/1950|
HEADER=JAPANESE WOMEN VISIT LAKE SUCCESS|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=A group of Japanese woman looking at Declaration of Human Rights during t.heir visit at U.N. interim headquarters in Lake Success. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/MB|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q18 :

NICA ID=129577|
CITY=Bogoro|
PHOTO DATE=12/10/2006|
HEADER=United Nations Investigates Human Rights Violations in DR Congo |
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=UN Volunteer human rights team in Bogoro investigates the 2003 Lendu militia crimes committed against civilians in the area. Pictured here is a witness showing the skull of an alleged victim.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Martine Perret|
COUNTRY=Democratic Republic of the Congo|

Q19 :

NICA ID=123898|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=United Nations International Nursery School: It's Human Rights Day for Them, Too|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=These children of United Nations staff members are getting a closer look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is two years old on 10 December. All nations in the world have been invited to set aside 10 December of every year as Human Rights Day and through programs in schools and community centers to pay hommage to the principles of freedom and of the dignity of men. |
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Children of the United Nations International Nursery School look at a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.|
CREDIT=UN Photo|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q20 :

NICA ID=72837|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=10/12/1998|
HEADER=CHILDREN'S PASSPORT VERSION OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON DECLARATION'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Children's passport versions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are displayed at a special event marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The passport was also presented to three United Nations Peace Messengers: author and journalist Anna Cataldi, actor Michael Douglas, and opera singer Luciano Pavarotti. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/Evan Schneider|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q22 :

NICA ID=86372|
CITY=Tokyo|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/1979|
HEADER=International Year for Disabled Persons (IYDP) - 1981|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 1981 as the International Year for Disabled Persons (IYDP). The principal aim of the Year is to encourage national as well as international efforts for the rehabilitation of the estimated 450 million people of the world who suffer from some form of physical or metal impairment. The main theme of the Year is "full participation".|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Disabled young children of the Kome School in Tokyo. The school which is operated by the City of Tokyo is the oldest educational institution for the disabled children in the city. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/Jan Corash|
COUNTRY=Japan|

Q23 :

NICA ID=36515|
CITY=Bogota|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/1978|
HEADER=Child Labor Worldwide: It's Still a Problem|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=Most nations have laws that prohibit child labor. Yet throughout the world, children in large numbers can be seen toiling in sweatshops, hauling concrete, tilling fields, plucking garbage or peddling shoes. In 1979, the year the United Nations designated as the International Year of the Child, numerous studies revealed an estimated 56 million children under 15 working for little or no pay in Asia, Africa or Latin America alone. In many cities in particular, they are often thrown into hostile, impersonal urban jungles in a daily struggle for survival.|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Many Columbian children live in a Dickensian world, surviving amid the discards and trash heaps of urban Bogota. To survive, they sift through the trash searching for things they might be able to sell.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Jean Pierre Laffont|
COUNTRY=Colombia|

Q24 :

NICA ID=36567|
CITY=Ajiep|
PHOTO DATE=27/08/1998|
HEADER=Operation Lifeline Helps Displaced People in Southern Sudan|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=About 2.5 million people face a famine in Sudan. The people displaced by the war in Southern Sudan are being helped by Operation Lifeline Sudan, a consortium of the World Food Programme (WFP), UNICEF and 35 non-governmental organizations. The nine year relief effort has saved thousands of lives and the World Food Programme says it will need $154 million to provide emergency aid until April 1999.|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=A young boy with a malnourished child at the Operation Lifeline Sudan feeding centre in Ajiep.
CREDIT=UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe|
COUNTRY=Sudan|

Q25 :

NICA ID=74855|
CITY=Mbeya|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/1980|
HEADER=Development of Resources: Tea Plantation in Tanzania|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=The lifeline of many poor countries is the export of raw materials. If that line is to hold firm, these countries must have stable and equitable prices for the commodities they sell to the industrial world. The resources of land and sea, however, must not be exploited for nationalistic ends, but for the benefit of all mankind.|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Women plucking tea leaves on a tea plantation in the Mbeya region. Tanzania is one of the tea exporting countries.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/B Wolff|
COUNTRY=Tanzania|

Q27 :

NICA ID=84550|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=Champion of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION="Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right"|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q28 :

NICA ID=29796|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=10/12/2003|
HEADER=HELLOWORLD PROJECT: WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=On the occasion of the fIrst-ever World Summit on the Information Society (10-12 December), a ground-breaking media art installation by Swiss artist Johannes Gees which publicizes the Summit by projecting laser messages on the north fayade of the United Nations Building and three other global landmarks, while making them simultaneously available worldwide through the Internet. To publicize the Summit, the United Nations agreed with the Federal OffIce of Culture of Switzerland - the Summit host country -- to feature on its Secretariat Building this art installation, the Helloworld Project, which utilizes the information technologies being discussed at the Summit. On the first day of the Summit and to observe Human Rights Day, 10 December, United Nations messages about human rights were projected onto the north face wall of the Secretariat building.|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q29 :

NICA ID=77086|
CITY=Nyala|
PHOTO DATE=28/05/2005|
HEADER=Secretary-General Visits Refugee Camp in South Darfur|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on 27 May, for a three-day visit that included talks with Sudan's leadership and a visit to the south of the country as well as the Southern Darfur region. Today, the Secretary-General arrived in the southern town of Nyala and visited the Kalma Camp, where more than 100,000 people are living, having been forced to flee by attacks on their villages and towns.|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=In the southern town of Nyala, tens of thousands of people lined both sides of the road leading to the Kalma camp to greet Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as he arrived in the region today to get a first-hand impression of the humanitarian situation there.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Evan Schneider|
COUNTRY=Sudan|

Q30 :

NICA ID=84550|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=Champion of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION="Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right"|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q31 :

NICA ID=84550|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=Champion of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION="Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right"|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q32 :

NICA ID=62128|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=24/02/1950|
HEADER=JAPANESE WOMEN VISIT LAKE SUCCESS|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=TSUNEKO AKAMATSU, member of House of Councillers (Senate), from a group of Japanese women visiting U.N. interim headquarters in Lake Success, reading the Declaration of Human Rights.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/MB|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q33 :

NICA ID=84550|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=Champion of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION="Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right"|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q34 :

NICA ID=29796|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=10/12/2003|
HEADER=HELLOWORLD PROJECT: WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION|
SOCIETY|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=On the occasion of the fIrst-ever World Summit on the Information Society (10-12 December), a ground-breaking media art installation by Swiss artist Johannes Gees which publicizes the Summit by projecting laser messages on the north fayade of the United Nations Building and three other global landmarks, while making them simultaneously available worldwide through the Internet. To publicize the Summit, the United Nations agreed with the Federal OffIce of Culture of Switzerland - the Summit host country -- to feature on its Secretariat Building this art installation, the Helloworld Project, which utilizes the information technologies being discussed at the Summit. On the first day of the Summit and to observe Human Rights Day, 10 December, United Nations messages about human rights were projected onto the north face wall of the Secretariat building.|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q35 :

NICA ID=140567|
CITY=Geneva|
PHOTO DATE=16/04/1951|
HEADER=Seventh Session of the Human Rights Commission|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=The main task before the Commission is the completion of the draft International Covenant on Human Rights, and of measures for its implementation.
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Human Rights began its seventh session by electing Dr. CHARLES MALIK, of Lebanon, Chairman to succeed Mrs.Eleanor Roosevelt, Chairman of the Commission since its inception, who announced she did not wish to be re-elected. |
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=Switzerland|

Q36 :

NICA ID=147422|
CITY=United Nations|
PHOTO DATE=04/06/2007|
HEADER=Special Human Rights Council Meeting |
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Michelle Bachelet, President of Chili, addresses the Special Meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Pierre-Michel Virot|
COUNTRY=Switzerland|

Q37 :

NICA ID=84550|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=Champion of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION="Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right"|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q38 :

NICA ID=129523|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=09/06/1947|
HEADER=Drafting Committee on International Bill of Rights (Commission on Human Rights)|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Professor Vladimir M. Koretaky, USSR representative,(left), greets Dr. Charles Malik Lebanon, Rapporteur of the Drafting Committee, before 1st meeting.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q39 :

NICA ID=120395|
CITY=Geneva|
PHOTO DATE=19/06/2006|
HEADER=Inaugural Meeting of Human Rights Council Opens in Switzerland|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Wide view of the inaugural meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/Jean-Marc FerrÈ|
COUNTRY=Switzerland|

Q40 :

NICA ID=84550|
CITY=United Nations (Lake Success)|
PHOTO DATE=01/01/0001|
HEADER=Champion of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION="Individual freedom of thought and conscience, to hold and change beliefs, is an absolute and sacred right"|
CREDIT=UN Photo/x|
COUNTRY=New York|

Q41 :

NICA ID=52034|
CITY=Gypsos|
PHOTO DATE=21/11/1974|
HEADER=Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees in Cyprus|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=Events in Cyprus in July and August forced almost a third of the Island's population to flee their homes. Many villages, isolated in territory under the control of the other community, became helpless enclaves depending for their survival on a life-line of international assistance. The Acting President of Cyprus Glafcos Clerides and the Vice-President Rauf Denktash have been holding discussions on humanitarian matters with the assistance of the Secretary-General's Special Representative Luis Weckmann-Munoz, and other UN officials, including a representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who are working closely with the leaders of the two communities. As a result of these discussions agreements are being reached to evacuate Greek and Turkish Cypriot refugees to safe areas. The UN Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are assisting in the evacuation.
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=As a result of talks held on 11 November between the leaders of the two communities, about 1,100 Greek Cypriots are being evacuated from the villages of Gypsos and Vone in the Famagusta district. Here an elderly evacuee from the village of Gypsos is seen being carried on a stretcher to an ambulance as she was being evacuated to Government held area.
CREDIT=UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata|
COUNTRY=Cyprus|

Q42 :

NICA ID=103985|
CITY=|
PHOTO DATE=25/07/1994|
HEADER=United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda |
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Children who fled the fighting in Rwanda rest in Ndosha camp in Goma.|
CREDIT=UN Photo/John Isaac|
COUNTRY=Zaire|

Q43 :

NICA ID=97587|
CITY=Port-au-Prince|
PHOTO DATE=13/09/2005|
HEADER=Photos From UN Mission in Haiti: Children Line the Streets in Bel-Air, Port-Au-Prince|
CAPTION BACKGROUND=|
CAPTION DESCRIPTION=Four children are lined up behind a fence facing the street in Bel-Air, Port-Au-Prince, a slum divided by gangs. It is now protected by the Brazilian Battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
CREDIT=UN Photo/Sophia Paris|
COUNTRY=Haiti|

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