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UN in Yemen: A History

Woman from Taiz, Yemen, 1983. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

At the research farm, in Hudaydah which is operated with assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), work in a maize field being done under the supervision of a UN Volunteer. Agriculture in Yemen is largely of a subsistence nature with grains, fruits, vegetables and cotton being the main crops. With help from UN agencies, the Government is carrying out agricultural development programmes aimed at improving the standard of living of its people. 1975. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Children fill their containers with water from a community pump on the dry Tihama plain near Hudaydah. 1985. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

With help from the World Health Organization (WHO) under the UN Development Programme, the Government is building new health centres and additional health units aimed at increasing the facilities in the outlying areas which are served sparsely at present. 1975. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Disadvantaged women worldwide are locked into a lifestyle of exploitation. The Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women, established in 1975, is trying to improve their lot through projects implemented on a village level. Adult literacy class in the El Monhata community centre near Taiz. 1983. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Rashida Ali Al-Hamadani, Chairperson of the Women's National Committee of Yemen, addresses the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly. Meeting on the theme, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century". 2000. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

UN Volunteer Renata Kober (Austria), left, with nursing trainees at The Republic Hospital in Taiz get practical training. 1975. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Children helping an old woman fill her containers with water from a community pump in Dobra Khira near Sana'a. 1985. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

A 1953 music recital, with the participation of Licia Albanese, Soprano, and Jussi Bjorling, Tenor, of the Metropolitan Opera of New York, took place yesterday evening in the General Assembly auditorium. This picture shows the hosts greeting some of their guests. From left to right: Mr. Hammarskjöld, H.R.H. Prince Saif Al Islam Abdullah, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Yemen, Madame Pandit and Sayed Hassan Ibrahim, also from Yemen. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

A child being vaccinated in Yemen. Preventive action against many diseases - diphtheria, measles, mumps, typhoid, whooping cough - must start early in life. 1980. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

The delegation of Yemen before 92nd plenary meeting of the General Assembly at which their country and Pakistan were formally admitted to membership in the United Nations, thereby increasing the number of Member States to 57. 1947. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

In Taiz, in the traditional way a farmer is using a couple of oxen to draw water from a well to irrigate a field. Insufficient rainfall and lack of permanent surface water severely restrict the scope of agriculture. With help from the Food and Agriculture Organization under the UN Development Programme, the Government has undertaken several irrigation schemes in an effort to increase the agriculture. 1953. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Ambassador Ahmed Al-Haddad (centre), Director of Research and Diplomatic Institute Department, Ministry or Foreign Affairs of Yemen, acting as Vice-President of the General Assembly. To the left is Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. 1992. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

A meeting of the United Nations Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM). Major Popovic (2nd from left), Commanding Officer of Najran detachment of UNYOM, is seen as he held a meeting at the conclusion of an air patrol.1963. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

UN Volunteer Yoshikazu Itoh, 28, Japanese irrigation technician, explains to Yemeni farmers benefits they would derive if the irrigation project he is investigating at Wadi Warazan (in southern part of Yemen Arab Republic) materializes. 1972. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Chief members of the Yemen Delegation to the Fifth Session of the U.N. General Assembly, exchange views in the Delegates Lounge, Sayed Alcadi Mohammad Al-Amri, Minister of State, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Delegation Chairman, and Sayed Kasan Ibrahim, left, Minister of State and Delegation Vice-Chairman. 1950. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

A rural farmer in a village near Sanaa, reaping his harvest using a reaping hook in the traditional way. In Yemen, agriculture, mainly of the subsistence type, provides 80% of total employment. With help from the Food and Agriculture Organization under the UN Development Programme the Government has undertaken agricultural development projects. 1975. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Abdol Hosayn Aziz (left) of Afghanistan, talks to Hassan Baghdadi, centre, Yemen adviser, and Prince Seif el Islam Abdullah, Yemen chairman, after the 92nd plenary meeting of Second Session of United Nations General Assembly at which Yemen was formally admitted to membership in the United Nations. 1947. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Ban Ki-moon (centre), Secretary-General of the Untied Nations, visits Yemen on the eve of the first anniversary of the country’s peace and transition agreement, which was signed on 23 November 2011 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2012. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

The Security Council voted unanimously on 12 December to recommend to the General Assembly the admission of the People's Republic of Southern Yemen to the United Nations. The flag of the People's Republic of Southern Yemen was raised at United Nations Headquarters. From left to right are: Saif Ahmad Dhalee, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Southern Yemen, and Ahmed Ali Musaid, representative of Southern Yemen. 1967. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

A United Nations Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) patrol leaves the Najran camp. 1963. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

At the Republican Hospital in Taiz Dr. Abdul Mallak al Germosi (Yemen) examining a patient. He is assisted by UN Volunteer, Miss. Concordia Magno (Philippines), centre. In an effort to overcome the severe shortage in trained health personnel, particularly in rural areas, the Government has established the Institute of Health Manpower Development in Aden with help from the UN Development Programme. 1975. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Nada Al-Shari (left), Youth Representative and Chairperson of the Children's Parliament of Yemen, flanked by Abdullah Alsaidi, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Yemen to the United Nations, addresses a High-Level meeting of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly on the follow-up to the Outcome of the Special Session on Children "A World Fit for Children +5 (WFFC+5)". 2007. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

A Somali mother and her child, recently displaced by fighting in capital Somali capital Mogadishu, settle a Kharaz Refugee Camp, 140 km from Aden, Yemen. 2009. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Yemen and met with the nation's leaders on the eve of the first anniversary of the country’s peace and transition agreement, which was signed on 23 November 2011 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Ban departs Sana'a at the conclusion of his visit. 2012. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

A Somali girl walks to school inside Kharaz Refugee Camp, 140 km from Yemeni city Aden. 2009. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

Mr. Zaki Abdo, of Yemen, photographed at his country's desk during the (13th) session of the United Nations General Assembly. 1958. UN Photo/UN Photo Library.

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