New York, Oct. 21 (UNI) A global exhibition titled “Shared Lives, Shared Future” was launched Monday at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York to mark the United Nations’ 80th anniversary.
The exhibition features more than 200 stories from 193 countries, highlighting how the world’s most crucial international organization impacts people’s lives often in “invisible” ways — supporting peace and security, overseeing regulatory frameworks, providing humanitarian assistance and fostering development, facilitating international conventions on trade, and advancing human rights.
The exhibition “tells a remarkable story,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the opening ceremony. “A story that began 80 years ago, when the sun rose on a world scarred by war and the United Nations was born. A story of ambition and resolve, of cooperation and results. A story the women and men of the United Nations are still writing today, in communities across the world, supporting development, humanitarian assistance, peace and security, and human rights.”
Guterres urged the international community to reflect on three truths: the United Nations is deeply committed to supporting the most vulnerable amid conflict and disaster through sustainable development; international norms and standards, often taken for granted, affect people’s lives every day; and multilateralism makes our world a better place.
“From peace to humanitarian action to development — none of the outcomes illustrated here would have come to pass without dialogue and cooperation among States,” said the UN chief.
