"Visions: Fifty Years of the United Nations is the first official pictorial history of the United Nations, covering issues and events from education to disarmament, human rights to environmental protection. Over 250 photographs - most of which have never been published - reveal the human face of this complex international organization." "Visions is also a memorable photographic document of the UN's achievements. The UN and its organizations have been awarded 5 Nobel Peace Prizes, for its assistance to refugees, its work in helping save the lives of children, its progress in establishing workers' rights and protections, and for its peace-keeping operations. During the past fifty years, the UN has grown from 51 to 185 Member States, many of these assisted to independence through the UN Trusteeship System." "Visions is a tribute to the people of the world, whose portraits of joy and hope, despair and suffering, animate this book. The contentment of a hungry Polish orphan with a loaf of bread, the delight and dignity of a New Guinean tribesman greeting a UN emissary, the stoical grief of an Ethiopian woman with AIDS - these are but three of the unforgettable images."--Jacket.