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women explaining the significance of the Declaration was shown. The event closed with a rock
music show. In Bucaramanga, Cali and Medellín, Colombia, OHCHR offices launched the
campaign with art events.
38. Exhibitions, film screenings, musical performances, seminars, panel debates, and other
official events at which the United Nations system participated were organized in Ethiopia,
France, Germany, Greece, Guyana, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, Portugal,
Somalia, Spain, Timor-Leste and Turkey.
UDHR 60 commemorative activities planned for 2008
39. The year-long UDHR 60 commemoration is intended to be as inclusive as possible. It will
encompass the United Nations family, the public and private sectors, media, educators, schools,
artists and other representatives of civil society throughout the world. Activities
for the commemoration are already being planned by many of these partners. Some
United Nations-affiliated projects planned for 2008 are as follows:
− Internationally renowned directors film human rights: OHCHR has collaborated with
the NGO Art for the World, Dorje Films and the European Commission on a series of
short films specially made for the UDHR 60. Award winning film-makers from
different regions will direct 15 to 20 short films on human rights, which will be shown
back to back as one medium-length feature in various locations throughout 2008, and
will premier at the Rome Film Festival. The films will be distributed as public service
announcements (PSAs) in cinemas and on television networks worldwide;
− Book based on human rights films: A book on the short films specially made for the
UDHR 60 will be launched and available for sale a month before the film presentation;
− The sixty-first annual DPI/NGO conference in Paris: The United Nations Department of
Public Information (DPI) is preparing for the conference, which will be hosted for the
first time outside New York, at UNESCO headquarters, from 3 to 5 September 2008.
“A celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” is the theme of the
conference;
− Interactive dialogues on human rights in New York: The Permanent Mission of
Switzerland in New York, in collaboration with OHCHR and the NGO Committee on
Human Rights, is organizing a series of interactive dialogues on human rights from
October 2007 to December 2008. Speakers will discuss new challenges and approaches
to human rights in the context of improving synergy between the United Nations in
New York, the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Member States, United Nations
agencies and civil society.
5. Internship programme
40. OHCHR offered internships to 111 graduate and undergraduate students to enable them to
gain first-hand knowledge of United Nations actions and procedures in the field of human rights.
Internships are awarded without financial commitment of any kind on the part of OHCHR or
other United Nations bodies.
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