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Deadline: Film submissions and forms must be received in the Public Inquiries Unit, GA-057 by 5:00 p.m. EST, on 7 February 2007. Film
screening on holocaust Contact: sura@un.org A
concert commemorating holocaust (5 February) http://www.raoulwallengerb.net/especial/ For tickets, please write to the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
at irwf@irwf.org or call 212-737-3275. Briefings and other educational activities
Committee on Teaching About the UN (CTAUN) - a group of 500 participants, mostly educators and administrators, will attend the 9th Annual Conference on the theme: "Responding to Children and Youth in Crisis: Educators in Partnership with the UN" (2 February); SUNY New Paltz- A group of 17 undergraduate students enrolled in a UN semester course. Students will participate in a series of briefings every Friday from 9 February - 4 May with UN officials, NGOs, and Delegations;
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. "Security Council Reform" (5 February); Baur Int'l Model UN Conference- Juriquilla-Queretaro, Mexico. "Keynote Speaker" (9 February); International Institute of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. "Energy" (12 -13 February); Columbia University, New York. "Islamophobia" (12 February);
Global Education Motivators- Part 1 of a four part series. "The United Nations: Myth vs Reality" (7 February); Contact: bernstein@un.org Exhibits
at UNHQ 18 January - 16 February (South Gallery): "Burundi: from Conflict to Peacebuilding" - A photographic exhibition highlighting the achievements of the United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB), sponsored by DPKO and DPI. Contact: arnesen@un.org
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CONFERENCES,
MEETINGS AND SPECIAL EVENTS Other activities include: Press briefing on full employment and decent work (7 February, 1:15 PM). Speakers: Commission Chair and Iran's Deputy Permanent Representative Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi; Barbados Central Bank Governor Ms. Marion Williams; and a speaker to be announced. Press briefing on economic liberalization and inequality (9 February, 11:15 AM). ASG for Economic Development Jomo Kwame Sundaram and economist Jacques Baudot will present their new book, "Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality" (416 pp., Orient Longman, 2007). Contact: bellando@un.org International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, Signing Ceremony in Paris (6 February): A ceremony to officially open for signature the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (see full text at www.ohchr.org/english/law/disappearance-convention.htm) will take place in Paris on Tuesday 6 February. An op-ed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights has been drafted by the OHCHR and is available in English. Guidance has been sent to UNICs and a press release will be available by 2 February to assist with local promotion. Contact: sivacolundhu@un.org UN-ESCWA: UNICs Beirut and Cairo have coordinated the preparation of information materials (including brochure, poster and TV spot) and press events for UN-ESCWA's National Conference “Integrated Social Policies in Egypt” (Cairo, 5-8 February). The conference is being held under the auspices of Egypt's First Lady and is organized jointly by ESCWA, Ministry of Social Solidarity and UNDP. Opening and closing press conferences will be organized by UNIC Cairo. Contact: info@unic-eg.org REPORT LAUNCHES Climate change: The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the first of its four-part assessment report on Friday, 2 February in Paris. The first part of the report, on the physical science, will assess the extent to which climate change is taking place and forecasts future trends. DPI is working with IPCC and other UN agencies to help disseminate information about the report. The other parts of the IPCC assessment will focus on the impact of climate (in April), mitigation (May) and a synthesis report that will be released in November. Contact:
shepard@un.org NEW AUDIO-VISUAL PRODUCTS
AND NEWS Contact: barkley@un.org UNICs/UNOs AROUND THE WORLD CONGO: Educational outreach event with the participation of some 120 middle school students (Brazzaville, 8 February). CZECH
REPUBLIC: A series of educational and interactive outreach
programmes titled "Hannah’s Suitcase", with participation
of survivors of the Holocaust (Prague, 1-8 February); • Seminar
on illegal migration in the Czech Republic (Prague, 6 February); •
Lecture-discussion on “UN Challenges in the 21st century”
and “UN Peacekeeping” for students of Caritas College
(Olomouc, 6 February); • New issue of UN Bulletin, UNIC’s
monthly publication in Czech (15 February). EGYPT: Briefing by UNIC Director to UNICEF staff on “United Nations image in Egypt and the region - Challenges and Opportunities” (Cairo, 1 February). GERMANY: Lecture by UNRIC Desk Officer on “The work of DPI and UNRIC” at the University of Berlin. (Berlin, 1 February). GHANA: Event organized by UNIC Accra to hand over donations by UN staff to inmates of Weija Leprosium (Accra, 15 February). INDIA: Media Training Workshop for UNCT and UNCG-India (New Delhi, 12-14 February). NIGERIA: Symposium on "The United Nations and the Challenges to Global Governance in the 21st Century” organized in collaboration with the University of Lagos (Lagos, 8 February). PERU: Press conference by members of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights, and impeding the exercise of the rights of people to self-determination (Lima, 2 February). ROMANIA: Inauguration of a painting exhibition with works of prominent local artists Georgiana Manea and Cristi Suteu (Bucharest, 1 February). The exhibition runs until 9 February. · Joint presentation by UNIC with UN agencies on human rights and UN reform to students of University of Bucharest (Bucharest, 7 February). RUSSIA: Inaugural meeting of the UN Communications Group-Russia in 2007 (Moscow, 1 February); · Briefing on the “G-8 Presidency passing from Russia to Germany" with participation of Yuri Isakov, Ambassador-at-large, Russian Foreign Ministry (Moscow, 5 February). SOUTH AFRICA: Workshop on gender opportunities in peacekeeping, hosted by the Government of South Africa (Pretoria, 7-9 February); · Discussions on the implementation of UN Development Assistance Framework (Cape Town, 6-8 February); · Tenth Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development (Addis Ababa, 12-14 February). UNIC Information Officer will participate. · Lecture by UNIC Director on “Small Arms” at an event organized by Cease-fire Campaign NGO (Johannesburg, 14 February). THAILAND: Interactive session and exhibition at Mahidol University International College Job Fair 2007, organized by UNIS and ESCAP (Bangkok, 1 February). Website: http://www.un.org/aroundworld/unics/ Contact: mihalic@un.org ANNOUNCEMENTS Workshop for Spanish-speaking librarians: The Dag Hammarskjöld Library and Knowledge Sharing Centre will hold a workshop entitled " The United Nations Workshop for Spanish-speaking Librarians in the Caribbean Region : Accessing United Nations Information and Documentation" in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, 30 January - 2 February 2007. The workshop is organized with the support of the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR) and of the United Nations Information Centre in Mexico City, sponsored by the Government of the Dominican Republic . EOS at CTAUN conference : Educational materials will be distributed at the Education Outreach Section table to 400 plus teachers at the Info Fair for the Committee on Teaching About the United Nations (CTAUN). EOS will have a booth where UN Works and CyberSchoolBus will make presentations. Contact: chavezm@un.org
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As
part of the Holocaust Remembrance Week (29 January - 2 February ),
DPI, in association with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, will
present "Nazvy svoie im'ia (Spell Your Name)" in
the DHL auditorium on 1 February at 6:00 p.m. The film, directed by
Sergey Bukovsky, recounts the story of people who escaped execution
and others who rescued neighbours during the Holocaust in Ukraine.
Limited seating.
The
“Holocaust and the United Nations” outreach programme
is collaborating with the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
on a concert at Carnegie Hall (5 February at 8:00 p.m.) to commemorate
the Holocaust and to recognize those who displayed extraordinary courage
to save Jews from genocide during World War II. USG Shashi Tharoor
will read an excerpt from documentation that highlights the actions
taken by the National Assembly of Bulgaria to prevent the deportation
of Bulgarian Jews. The Partners of Hope concert will feature the Westfield
Symphony Orchestra and the Bulgarian soprano Anna Veleva.
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January - 22 February (Main Gallery): A two-part exhibition
in observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory
of the victims of the Holocaust: "The Holocaust Against the Roma
and Sinti and present day racism in Europe, and "Remembrance
and Beyond: Art of the Survivors" -- an exhibit featuring artwork
by Holocaust survivors Joseph Bau, Henny de Brito, David Friedman
and Hanka Kornfeld-Marder. Sponsored by the Documentation and Cultural
Centre of German Sinti and Roma and DPI.