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MINUSMA, MALI

Male figure from the Ivoirian Transport Company is delivering drinkable water through a hose to a male peacekeeper holding a blue bucket.

A Mali woman dressed in green garments receives free treatment at medical clinic in Gao, Mali.

A female Rwandan peacekeeper is speaking to a woman and children who are out on the streets of Gao, a town in northern Mali.

Numerous Mali women and children are waiting in line for free consultations at a medical clinic in Gao, Mali. A female clinician is checking in with the female child at the front of the line, as many others are behind her.

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was established by Security Council resolution 2100 of 25 April 2013 to support political processes in that country and carry out a number of security-related tasks. The Mission was asked to support the transitional authorities of Mali in the stabilization of the country and implementation of the transitional roadmap.

More Information: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/minusma

UNIFIL, LEBANON

Two peacekeepers are delivering school backpacks to school children lined up.

Lebanese journalism students are capturing the moment of the Indonesian Battalion during a medical house call to a local family in South Lebanon.

The medical team of the Indonesian contingent is treating a car accident patient's injured knee.

A Turkish peacekeeper paints a flower on a girl’s hand at a children’s fair in south Lebanon.

Originally, the Unated Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was created by the Security Council in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restore international peace and security and assist the Lebanese Government in restoring its effective authority in the area. The mandate had to be adjusted twice, due to the developments in 1982 and 2000.

MINUJUSTH, HAITI

A blue helmet UN police stands guard as the delegation visits Haiti.

Woman, surrounded by crowd of people, is holding a baby in her arms.

Children in school uniforms sitting on school desks.

Several people in the center are laying white flowers to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the deadly earthquake in Haiti.

The mandate of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) is set out in the Security Council Resolution 2350 (2017), which was adopted on 13 April 2017. It provided for the establishment of a peacekeeping mission in Haiti that would begin operations upon completion of the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

More information: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/minujusth

UNMISS, SOUTH SUDAN

Four participants of a meditation workshop are wearing blue tshirts and smiling.

Demonstrators are presenting a memorandum to the peacekeeping office.

Local Sudanese people dance at the Let Us Laugh Festival in Juba.

Chlidren are roasting ears of corn and smiling at the camera.

Woman and male soldier are cleaning desks of a local school in South Sudan.

Newly arrive children at the protection of civilians site are filling up cans and buckets with water.

Demonstrators holding large banners, commemorating someone's death.

Blue-helmet peacekeeping soldier visiting a field with internally displaced people, assessing the humanitarian and security situation.

People are setting up basic structures for shelter.

On 9 July 2011 South Sudan became the newest country in the world. In adopting resolution 1996 (2011) on 8 July 2011, the Security Council determined that the situation faced by South Sudan continued to constitute a threat to international peace and security in the region and established the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) to consolidate peace and security and to help establish conditions for development.

More information: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unmiss

UNDOF, GOLAN

Two Polish peacekeepers are riding on a white patrol vehicle with the Polish national flag and the UN flag.

Several Druze pilgrims dressed in black body garment and white head garment are walking past a military checkpoint in Syria guarded by peacekeepers.

A religious ceremony, marking the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on 29 May, is ocurring with a crowd of peacekeepers and civilians.

Peacekeepers are gathered at a memorial site for the mission's 1st Company Australian contingent. Three soldiers are surrounding a memorial.

From early March 1974, the situation in the Israel-Syria sector became increasingly unstable, and firing intensified. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) was established on 31 May 1974 by Security Council resolution 350 (1974), following the agreed disengagement of the Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan. More Information: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/undof

UNISFA, ABYEI

Helicopters carrying Indian Battalion troops are arriving in Abyei, the main town of the disputed Abyei area on the border of Sudan and newly independent South Sudan.

People are marching to celebrate the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Zambian peacekeeper is standing in front of white tank with the UN emblem and the flag.

White tank with UN mark patrolling the street.

Armed men are walking past the mission camp in Abyei, the main town of the disputed Abyei area on the border of Sudan and newly independent South Sudan.

The Security Council, by its resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011, responded to the urgent situation in Sudan’s Abyei region by establishing the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). The Security Council was deeply concerned by the violence, escalating tensions and population displacement.

More information: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unisfa

MINURSO, WESTERN SAHARA

Three women are walking at sunset near a refugee camp in the Western Sahara area.

Three peacekeeper are on the road standing in front of a building in Western Sahara.

People on patrol stop by an irrigation point.

Peacekeeper are seated around a table at their office, participating in a briefing.

Zoomed in view of female refugees residing in Algeria.

The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) was established by Security Council resolution 690 of 29 April 1991. The settlement plan, as approved by the Security Council, provided for a transitional period for the reparation of a referendum in which the people of Western Sahara would choose between independence and integration with Morocco.

More Information: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/minurso

Green Room

Man sitting on chair, in front there are staff interviewing and filming him.

Man sitting on chair in front of book shelf and a UN flag, while being filmed and interviewed.

View of Green Room from the opposite side of the entrance with black couches, a coffee table, and a UN flag at the back of the room.

The green room is a space located on the 2nd floor behind the press briefing room for speakers to prepare before addressing the press. It’s a narrow rectangular office space with west facing windows.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library

View of the reading room with seating areas near the glass wall and tables in the center of the room.

View of the reading room from the other side of the space with cabinets on the left and seating areas in the middle and right.

Huge windows in the reading room, facing outside the Secretariat Building where the ornamental pool is located.

Newstands lined up against a glass wall with seating areas in front.

At the southwest corner of the United Nations grounds, linked to the Secretariat Building, is the Dag Hammarskjöld Library dedicated on 16 November 1961 in honour of the late Secretary- General. The building was erected to meet the Organization's growing demands for library services and its construction was made possible by a gift of $6.6 million from the Ford Foundation. It was designed by the firm of Harrison, Abramovitz and Harris, architectural consultants to the United Nations.

Trusteeship Council

Zoomed in view of the Council from the chairmen's table with a Danish statue of a girl with arms upraised, reading towards a bird whose wings are outspread above her head.

View of the Council from the first floor, with several rows of tables and green chairs, and a projector screen on the chamber's front wall.

View of the Trusteeship Council from the right side of the chamber, with the wall statue in the front, windows covered with half-transparent curtains in the front, and several rows of seats.

The Trusteeship Council, one of the main organs of the UN, was established to supervise the administration of trust territories as they transitioned from colonies to sovereign nations. The Council suspended its activities in 1994, when Palau, the last of the original 11 trust territories, gained its independence.

The Chamber, originally designed by Danish architect Finn Juhl in 1952, has been revamped in a close collaboration between the UN and the Government of Denmark, with new furniture by Danish designers Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard.

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