UN Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for UN Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Africa in Stride - A Continent of Hope and Opportunity” Exhibition
Africa is in stride for peace and rapidly growing with international support. Commemorating the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) to be held soon, this exhibition presents (...)
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OAC "Creative Volunteer Exhibition 2008"
The OAC Creative Volunteer Traveling Exhibition is a unique exhibition of creative communication techniques from ad creators at advertising production companies across Japan who are members of the Organization (...)
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"Japanese UN Staff from the World" Exhibition
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Japan's admission to the United Nations, photograph panels documenting Japanese UN workers were created in 2006. Later, they made a photography book consisting of (...)
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Children's Picture Diaries from Asia Exhibition
Co-coordinated by the United Nation Information Center and the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan, this exhibition presents children's picture diaries. A total of 71 works created by children (...)
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"Global Warming" Exhibition
The UN Gallery brings this photography exhibition on global warming back from this summer to coincide with the 13th UN Climate Change Conference being held in Bali, Indonesia this December. They hope to (...)
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"Human Right: from a Standpoint of 'Human Security'" Exhibition
The UN and Japan supports many ongoing activities around the world in order to ensure human security against wars, poverty, environmental disorder, infections and many other issues. To bring people's attention (...)
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"WEP School Lunch Program - Food and Future for Children" Exhibition
WEP has a program in third world countries to provide children with nutritious meals, and to help them grow and encourage a learning environment. Through a detailed presentation on display panels, this (...)
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UNEP + UNIC Collaborative Exhibition "Global Warming"
This is a collaborative photographic exhibition between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) taking as its theme one of the UN's most critical (...)
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"20 Years of Protecting the Health of Pregnant Women - Population Problems in the Past, Present and Future" Exhibition
This exhibition focuses on three themes. It introduces the work of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, which reaches its 20th year this year. The UN "State of the World Population" reports are presented in (...)
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"World Refugee Day - Co-Existence" Exhibition
Every year, June 20th is World Refugee Day, the day that the UN designated to exalt the courage, resilience and strength of refugees around the world. Numerous organizations around the world hold events (...)
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"Towards a World without Child Labor" Exhibition
Child labour refers to children under the age of 15 working without adequate opportunity to receive an education or to grow. Also, situations in which children under the age of 18 are involved in work (...)
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"Être - The Face of Human Rights" Exhibition
This photography exhibition is sponsored by the Swiss Foreign Ministry who counts human rights as one of the main pillars of their foreign policies. The Ministry is undertaking an unusual endeavor to attempt (...)
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"Eyes on the World" Exhibition
The "Eyes on the World" exhibition taking place at the UN Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo is held in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. The (...)
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Collection Exhibition: The History of the UN through Photographs
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, the public relations office released photographs of historical happening and activities of the United Nations online in "Sixty (...)
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50th Anniversary Exhibition Celebrating Japan's Admission to the UN
Japan joined the UN on December 18th, 1956. To celebrate the 50th anniversary, three special exhibitions will take place in UN Gallery.
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Jack McLean "Peer Gynt, The Oslo-Cairo-Tokyo Connection"
From November 16th to November 26th, the Scottish contemporary artist Jack McLean will exhibit his huge hand drawn version of the great stage epos Peer Gynt at the UN Gallery in Tokyo. On November 15th (...)
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UNICEF "Eye See II"
One year has passed since a major earthquake struck Pakistan, taking the lives of 70,000 people. "Eye See II" is a photography exhibition by the children of Pakistan that started in their capital city, (...)
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"WFP's Meals that Create Africa's Tomorrow" Exhibition
The Eastern region of Africa is called the "Horn of Africa" due to its shape. Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Sudan and Kenya have been subject to natural disasters such as floods and droughts, as well as (...)
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"The Time for Action" Exhibition
This exhibition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Volunteers (UNV) is an in-depth introduction to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a common framework of the goals for development (...)
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Living with Deserts
The United Nations has declared 2006 to be International Year of Deserts and Desertification, in order to promote the fight against desertification, which has serious environmental, social and economic (...)
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2006 "International Refugee Day"
International Refugee Day, June 20th, is a day to call out for global understanding and support of international organizations and NGOs that work to aid and protect refugees. The Japan branch of UNHCR (...)
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ILO Exhibition "A Future Without Child Labor"
According to the findings presented by ILO (International Labor Organization) on May 4th, child labor is finally starting to show a decline in numbers. 11% less cases have been reported for 2004 compared (...)
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Human Trafficking and the World-Wide Movement of People
An introduction of IOM's relief activities related to Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami, Pakistan Earthquake, and Sudan refugees. There will be an exhibition of IOM's campaign posters and pamphlets that (...)
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Children First! An Exhibition of Message Flags from Children around the World
Last year marked the 50th year since the establishment of UNICEF. As an expression of thanks to all those who have supported the organisation, and as a gesture of hope for the children who will grow up (...)
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21st Century - Hope and Human Rights
230 exhibits and materials will describe human rights problems from around the world from various aspects. Many of the works were created by people who have overcome such problems. In addition, a 50 (...)
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Children and women in Bhutan
This exhibition introduces you to the unique activities of the Unicef office in Bhutan, a country whose goal is to achieve a higher Gross National Happiness rather than a higher Gross National Product. (...)
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WFP The Global School Feeding Exhibition 2005
World Food Program introduce their School Feeding Program. Forty photographs and actual distributions will be shown to present various facets of how school lunches impact children's education.
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The History Of Ilo - Part II
ILO Tokyo Office, the predecessor of ILO Office in Japan, started operations in November 1923. It was shut down once in 1939 during WW2, and restarted in October 1995, after the war. This event celebrates (...)
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"Wonder Eyes" a child's look
This event presents the following: *Wonder Eyes Photograph Exhibition - Selected photographs by children from Brazil, Australia, Mozambique, Uzbekistan and Eastern Timor who participated in the Wonder (...)
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2005 World Refugee Day Photography Exhibition
June 20th is World Refugee Day. The photography exhibition captures the "courage" of the Angolan refugees and the Zambian people.
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6.12 Against Child Labour 2005
In anticipation of the forthcoming Child Labour Day, photographs of children working in mines, farms, and fisheries will be put on display in an effort to raise awareness on the fact that those children’s (...)
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A Day In The Life Of Africa Exhibition
100 specially selected photographs from "A Day in the Life of Africa" collection exhibition. The photographs focus on women in Africa.





