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A close-up of Salah Aldin Abdurrahman, a 27-year-old blind man and member of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher, North Darfur. The organization assists persons with disabilities across Darfur.

Players from the Single Leg Amputee Sports Club Sierra Leone (SLASC) lift their crutches for a cheer before heading to the field for a match, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded in 2001 following Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict, the Club offers trauma recovery for war amputees.

Treaties waiting to be signed, of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, by representatives of Member States, 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.

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Some 18,000 soldiers from twenty-two countries are on duty with the United Nations Force in the Congo, helping to restore order and calm in the country.
A Congolese child is seen in the arms of an Ethiopian soldier, listening over a field telephone. March 1963.

British Commando units attached to the United Nations forces in Korea have made several daring raids deep into enemy territory. During one such raid, Commandos of the 41st Royal British Marines swarm ashore from amtracks 8 miles south of Songjin, North Korea, where they destroyed a stretch of railroad track breaking an important enemy supply line.

A street scene in Wonsan City, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The photo was taken during Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos’ five-day mission in the country to assess food aid needs.

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Headline Human Settlements: River Blindness in Upper Volta

Caption Description Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is found mostly in Africa, along major river valleys. This disease is caused by a worm transmitted by the blackfly that breeds in rivers. The adult fly lives on human blood. Harmful effects are mainly due to the embryos which invade the skin where they cause severe lesions that may culminate in blindness. About 20 million people around the world have this disease. In seven countries in the Volta basin - Dahomey, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Togo, and Upper Volta - approximately one million have the disease and at least 70 thousand of them are blind or with poor sight. The United Nations Development Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Health Organization are helping the Governments of the Volta basin to implement a twenty-year programme that is aimed at eradicating river blindness which is obstructing the progress of the people in this region.
A victim of river blindness being led through a sugar plantation to his village in Banfora. [c. 1974]

Unique Identifier UN7496423

NICA ID 348150

Production Date 01/01/1974 10:06:59 PM

Country Upper Volta

Credit UN Photo/Ray Witlin

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