UNESCO's rich collection of silver-based photographs bears witness to the Organisation's many uses of still images. Covering 50 years of activity, from 1947 to the early 2000s, these negatives, prints and slides were mainly used for illustrative purposes in the Courier and were taken by both UNESCO staff and photographers from all around the world.
Please note that some of the captions provided with the images are the original captions: as such, there may be inaccuracies or names that are no longer in use.
In 1952, exhibitions took place in two out of the three cities chosen to evaluate people's reactions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948: Cambridge and Grenoble.
On May 9, 1951, Mr. Miguel AIeman, President of the Republic of Mexico, and Mr. Jaime Torres Bodet, Director-General of UNESCO, inaugurated the Regional Center for Basic Education in Latin America (CREFAL), UNESCO's first center dedicated to the training of education specialists. Its members will focus specifically on education applied to essential areas of daily life, covering literacy as well as agriculture and home economics.