Saturday, June 30, 2007

Memorial to honour Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other people killed during the August 19, 2003 bombing


UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour speaks at the unveiling of the bust of Sergio Vieira de Mello as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) listens. © UNHCR/S.Hopper







Name Age Nationality Position
Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55 (Brazil):UN Secretary-general's special Iraqi envoy
Saad Hermiz Abona, 45 (Iraq): working for UN contracting firm
Renam Al-Farra, 29 (Jordan): an employee of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Raid Shaker Mustafa Al-Mahdawi, 32 (Iraq): United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
Emaad Ahmed Salman Al-Jobary, 45 (Iraq): Electrician for UNMOVIC
Omar Kahtan Mohamed Al-Orfali, 34(Iraq): Driver
Leen Assad Al-Qadi, 32 (Iraq): UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Iraq (UNOHCI)
Ranillo Buenaventura, 47 (Philippines): UNOHCI
Gillian Clark, 47 (Canada): Christian Children's Fund
Arthur Helton, 54 (United States): director of peace and conflict studies at the US Council on Foreign Relations.
Richard Hooper, 40 (United States): UN Department of Political Affairs
Reza Hosseini, 43 (Iran): employed by UN Office for the Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq
Ihsan Taha Husein, 26 (Iraq): UN driver for office of project services
Jean-Sélim Kanaan, 33 (Egypt): Member of Vieira de Mello's staff
Chris Klein-Beekman, 32 (Canada): UN Children's Fund's program coordinator
Manuel Martín-Oar, 56 (Spain): naval captain, assistant to the Spanish special ambassador to Iraq
Khidir Saleem Sahir, (Iraq): Civilian
Alya Souza, 54 (Iraq): worked for the World Bank
Martha Teas, 47 (United States): manager of UN humanitarian coordination office
Basim Mahmoud Utaiwi, 40 (Iraq): Security guard for UNOHCI
Fiona Watson, 35 (Britain): Member of Vieira de Mello's staff
Nadia Younes, 57 (Egypt): Chief of Staff for Vieira de Mello






Former Secretary General Kofi Annan unveils a bust of the late Sergio Vieira de Mello outside the headquarters of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The bust is in memory of the former High Commissioner and the twenty-one others who lost their lives in the bombing of the UN's headquarters in Iraq on 19 August 2003.





Annie de Mello, center, widow of late Brazilian Sergio Vieira de Mello, former High Commissioner for Human Rights, and one of her sons, right, greet a member of the de Mello's former security team, during a ceremony to unveil a bust of Sergio Vieira de Mello, outside the Palais Wilson, headquarters of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 28, 2007.(...).(AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini).

Actualização a 20 de Março de 2008,
2007 Unveiling of Segio's bust at Palais Wilson, Geneva.
Link, http://sergiovdmfoundation.org/en/multimedia.html, consultado a 20 de Março de 2008