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![June 26, 1945: Out of the 850 international delegates who signed the formal United Nations Charter, only 4 were women; Dr. Bertha Lutz (Brazil) Minerva Bernardino (Dom. Rep.), Virginia Gildersleeve (US) and Dr. Wu Yi-fang (China), all ensuring gender equality was written into the document. [928×520]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/s7jiq335vm9h1.jpeg)
June 26, 1945: Out of the 850 international delegates who signed the formal United Nations Charter, only 4 were women; Dr. Bertha Lutz (Brazil) Minerva Bernardino (Dom. Rep.), Virginia Gildersleeve (US) and Dr. Wu Yi-fang (China), all ensuring gender equality was written into the document. [928×520]

![GIs of the 5th Division, skirt the newly-taken town of Grevenstein, Germany, to attack a nearby hill which the Germans are using for an observation post. 11 April, 1945. Company K, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. (Photographer: Pfc. Jerome P. Musae, Signal Corps.) [2048×1659]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/k3lzy26hym9h1.jpeg)
![Four United States Marines carrying the covered body of a dead Marine on a stretcher. Official caption on back: “Bringing a dead Marine back from the front. Marine Corps Photo 1-15.” Saipan, Mariana Islands. 16 June 1944. [1297×1017]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/7vgs9nvp2n9h1.jpeg)

![An ammunition lorry of the British Army’s 11th Armoured Division explodes after being hit by mortar fire during Operation Epsom. Normandy, France, 26 June 1944 [1705 × 1420]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1pubajgtgm9h1.jpeg)

![A young boy, Harold Whittles, hears for the very first time after being fitted with a hearing aid, 1974 [936×1600]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ki44z3fr9i9h1.png)

![Rhodesian Grey’s Scouts mounted infantryman with a Heckler & Koch G3 rifle – during the Rhodesian Bush War, c. 1975 – 1979. [960 x 647]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2cgwl4w17l9h1.jpeg)

![A bomb disposal officer and infantry officer patrol West Belfast, 1992.[960×752]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/nyh79npr4l9h1.jpeg)

![Photo taken 160 years ago… “Virginia Oldoini (1837 – 1899) Countess of Castiglione”. Photo: Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822 – 1913, a French photographer). Photo was taken at the Mayer & Pierson studio, located at 3 Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, France, circa 1866 [1930×2896]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/gydx1jguim9h1.jpeg)

![Group of a women undergoing slimming course in a courtyard. USA – New York City, 1922 [1200×788]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/q34a2z872l9h1.jpeg)

![Soviet soldiers examine the guillotine in Berlin-Plötzensee Prison, May 1945, photo by Ivan Shagin. [1205x841px]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ozfzkl11hn9h1.jpeg)
