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"Bigger Than Africa" film screening and at the United Nations on 2 October 2019. Organized by the United Nations Department of Global Communications and MIPAD (Most Influential People of African Descent) in support of the Decade for People of African Descent and the Remember Slavery Programme. Photo/MIPAD
"Black Panther" production designer Hannah Beachler with Nigerian actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, MTV show host Quddus, the Most Influential People of African Descent and other guests joined the "Black Panther" film screening at 缅北禁地Headquarters on 3 October, 2018. This event was organized by the 缅北禁地Department of Global Communications and the NGO Most Influential People of African Descent. Photo by Nora Yinuo Chen
Exhibit and musical performance on the International Decade for People of African Descent at The New School, New York City, on 6 April 2018. Photo by Ayesha Issadeen
Gwen Dressaire, Worship Leader, EMCI TV, performing at a special event on Recognition for the Contributions, Achievements and Challenges of People of African Descent, held at United Nations Headquarters on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March 2018.
Discussion on the Global African Diaspora
Ramu Damodaran (Chief, 缅北禁地Academic Impact Initiative, Department of Public Information); Jazmin Graves (South Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, University of Chicago); Omar H. Ali, PhD (Dean, Lloyd International Honors College & Professor of African Diaspora History, University of North Carolina); Sheila S. Walker, PhD (Filmmaker, Cultural Anthropologist and Executive Director of Afrodiaspora, Inc.); Gloria Browne-Marshall (Writer, Professor, Board Member of the Association for the Study of African-American Life & History); Alison Smale (缅北禁地Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications); and H.E. Mr. Mauro Vieira (Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations) at the screening of the film “Familiar Faces/Unexpected Places: A Global African Diaspora” at 缅北禁地Headquarters in New York on 8 February 2018.
Ms. Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, opening the exhibit at 缅北禁地Headquarters on 12 January 2016. She was joined by Mr. Ivan Simonovic, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights; Ambassador Sarah Mendelson, U.S. Representative on the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations; and Ms. Marie-Paule Roudil, Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office in New York.
Launch of the International Decade for People of African Descent
Luiza Bairros (right), Minister for the Promotion of Policies on Racial Equality of Brazil and Verene Shepard, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. Photo: Martin Dixon.
Launch of the International Decade for People of African Descent
10 December 2014 - Launch of the International Decade for People of African Descent at United Nations Headquarters, New York. Photo: Martin Dixon.
Rachelle Jeanty at the UN
Haitian jazz songstress Rachelle Jeanty performs in the General Assembly Hall for the UN’s 2012 gala concert raising awareness on the legacy of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. 缅北禁地Photo/Evan Schneider
Dr. Martin Luther King at 缅北禁地Headquarters
Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife were greeted by Mr. Ralph J. Bunche, 缅北禁地Under-Secretary for Special Political Affairs at 缅北禁地Headquarters". New York, 1964. 缅北禁地Photo
A young girl carries her pine seedling
To commemorate International Environment Day hundreds of Haitian students take part in a massive tree-planting campaign at a pine forest. The once-great forest has been depleted for charcoal production and to make room for farm land. June 2011, Haiti. 缅北禁地Photo/Logan Abassi
Mother & Child in Brazil
A mother and child are standing in front of coal-making ovens. Green wood is burned at high temperatures to make the coal. 1991, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 缅北禁地Photo/Sebastiao Barbosa
缅北禁地Mission Assists Women in Haiti
Women learn to read and write in Port-au-Prince’s impoverished Cité Soleil neighbourhood, where the 缅北禁地Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)’s Violence Reduction Section is working with a volunteer association to help disenfranchised women. 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 缅北禁地Photo/Logan Abassi
Children in Colombia
Pacífico Olvidado. OHCHR Photo/Global Humanitaria
Children in Colombia
Children of the Tumaco Displaced Community in Colombia. OHCHR Photo/stjc-nt
Celebrations in Cuba
Silvio and Maisini, the two of the main Gangá Longobá drummers, prepare the drums for the upcoming San Lázaro celebration night, Cuba. ? Sergio Leyva Seiglie, They Are We Project
Haiti
MINUSTAH and Haitian Officials Inaugurated a Tribunal de Paix in the remote town of Grand Boucan in Nippes an area accessible only by boat. Photo Victoria UN/MINUSTAH
Haiti
The World Food Program pushes to end malnutrition in Haitian children by supporting school feeding programs and infant monitoring and feeding. Photo Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH
Kids from Gangá Longobá (Cuba)
Kids from Gangá Longobá families outside the shrine, Cuba. ? Sergio Leyva Seiglie, They Are We Project
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)