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Photo/Cyan Haribhai
Uprooted: Resilience in Crisis
This exhibit seeks to shed light on the impact of gender-based violence, exploring the stories of survivors, the resilience of affected communities, and the ongoing struggle for justice and healing. Through a diverse array of art forms, it offers a platform for survivors to share their experiences and for audiences to engage with this urgent issue.
This exhibit is organized and endorsed by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
On display until 7 February 2025
Pictures for the Human Rights
This exhibition features 30 pictures in which artists from many countries have interpreted the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their own visual language. These images make human rights easier to understand in words and pictures, inspiring visitors to defend and promote Human Rights for everyone everywhere. The exhibit is in connection with Human Rights Day (10 December).
This exhibit is organized by the Pictures for the Human Rights e.V and endorsed by the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations.
On display until 10 January 2025
Photo/Jehad Al Shrafii
Gaza, Palestine: A Crisis of Humanity, A Cry for Justice
This collective photo essay presents a small glimpse into the profoundly tragic reality and the suffering borne by the Palestinian people in Gaza today through compelling images captured since October 2023 by 14 Palestinian photojournalists from Gaza and their reflections of the moments these photographs were taken.
This exhibit is organized by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
On display until 10 January 2025
Ongoing Exhibit
Drawing by Hugh Ferriss for the Board of Design, 1947.
UN Headquarters: A Workshop for Peace
The exhibition features archival images of the planning and building of UNHQ between 1949 and 1952 and photos of the recently renovated compound. The exhibition also includes photos of the recently renovated UNHQ (renovation: 2008-2014).
The exhibition is organized by the Department of Global Communication.