ILO Photo/John Isaac

FIRST PERSON: Cajun cuisine feeds expanding business

4 January 2020

The International Labour Organization (ILO) marked its centenary in 2019 and as part of the commemoration has launched a photography project called “Dignity at Work: The American Experience” to document the working life of people across the United States. UN News joined the ILO on a visit to the southern US state of Louisiana.

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ILO Photo/John Isaac

‘Humanity, quiet dignity’ of workers profiled in US-wide photo project

23 December 2019

Human Rights

A small paddle-boat with two men on board finds its way through a green but muddy field planted with rice on a 120-acre farm in Scott, in the US state of Louisiana. It lurches forward as one of the men plants little metal traps into the mud every ten feet or so.

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Claude Etienne Tardy

70 years of reporting from the UN: celebrating the ‘the first draft of history’

25 February 2019

Interviews

On Monday, a new photography exhibition was officially opened in Geneva that celebrates the work of journalists over the last 70 years or so. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Nina Larson, President of the Association of UN Correspondents in Geneva (ACANU), describes what it’s like writing the “first draft of history” day in, and day out.

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Refugees and migrants arrive in Lesvos, Greece. Boat after boat lands on the coast of Lesvos between Eftalou and Skala Sykaminia.

UNHCR/Giles Duley

Photojournalist partners with UN to chronicle refugee journeys

24 July 2017

General News

From Lebanon to Greece, British Photographer Giles Duley has been capturing refugees’ epic journeys of survival as they search for a new home.

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UN News

Children remain positive despite "unspeakable violence" of war

19 August 2016

General News

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Child in the village of Mélé, Central African Republic. File

UNICEF/Pierre Holtz

Children suffer “unspeakable violence” during war, UN envoy says

17 August 2016

General News

Children have suffered “unspeakable violence” during war but most of them remain positive, a senior UN envoy said ahead of World Humanitarian Day (WHD) on 19 August.

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