"RALPH BUNCHE"

See how racism in Washington DC prompted Dr. Bunche to turn down an offer from the US State Department and instead pursue a career at the United Nations.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which provides lifesaving food assistance to millions across the world – often in extremely dangerous and hard-to-access conditions – was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize today. UNTV CH

A changemaker who was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Ralph Bunche is considered the ‘Father of Peacekeeping’ for his contributions to the United Nations. And yet his is not a name many would recognize.

Day of remembrance ‘a clarion call to remember’, keynote speaker tells General Assembly tribute for victims of transatlantic slave trade, at 73rd meeting.

The United Nations this week honours sixty years of UN peacekeeping. 63 operations have been dispatched around the world since the first UN peacekeepers arrived in the Middle East in 1948. UNTV / DPKO

Hailing their "vital mission" in stemming the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today lauded the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, on winning the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, the latest in a long series of UN laureates. UNIFeed will include a 3 minute edit of IAEA activities to help illustrate the work of IAEA.

Tony Jenkins interviews Thomas G. Weiss, Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and Tatiana Carayannis, Research Manager of the United Nations Intellectual History Project, for World Chronicle program 983.

Michael Littlejohns interviews Brian Urquhart (Ralph Bunche Biographer), Thomas Weiss (Director of Ralph Bunche), and James Jonah (Senior Fellow of Ralph Bunche Institute), for World Chronicle program 923.

Master compilation reel of UN Minutes. A series programmes produced between January and October 1995 - For the 50 year anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations.

"Peace From One", a sculpture by the American Daniel La Rue Johnson, was dedicated this morning to the memory of Ralph Bunche who died in 1971.