A/HRC/7/34 page 11 46. The Department’s Meetings Coverage Section in New York issued, during the reporting period, a total of 284 releases - 146 in English and 138 in French - including summaries of meetings and press conferences of intergovernmental human rights bodies as well as statements and messages by the Secretary-General. 47. United Nations Television covered various aspects of human rights and related issues in its current affairs, broadcast news magazine programme and its live and webcast footage of intergovernmental bodies and press conferences held at Headquarters. United Nations Television also provided regular coverage through Unifeed (www.un.org/unifeed/), its six-day-a-week satellite transmission service. During the reporting period, five “UN in Action” stories and 12 items in the “21st Century” programmes were on issues related to human rights. 48. United Nations Radio extensively covered the work of the Human Rights Council in its news bulletins and current affairs magazines in the official and non-official languages. United Nations Radio produced news and features on a broad range of related subjects, with special programmes for the start of UDHR 60 on 10 December. 49. For the first anniversary of the Human Rights Council, a fact sheet on the Council’s activities during its first year was issued and disseminated to the press in Geneva and made available at United Nations Headquarters, as well as posted on the Council website and sent with guidance to the United Nations Information Centres (UNICs). 50. During the High Commissioner’s three visits to United Nations Headquarters, the Department’s focal point provided communications support in the form of arranging interviews with CBC Radio, CNN International, BBC World TV and Reuters on subjects including Myanmar, the International Criminal Court, the Sudan, and the High Commissioner’s visit to the Great Lakes region in Africa. 51. In 2007, seven press conferences were arranged for human rights special rapporteurs during their presentations to the Third Committee of the General Assembly and at other times during the year. 2. Human Rights Day 52. The Department designed the website for Human Rights Day 2007 (www.un.org/events/humanrights/2007/) and for the sixtieth anniversary year in all six official languages, translated public information materials prepared by OHCHR into all official languages, and disseminated them to target audiences electronically and through the network of UNICs. An op-ed piece by the High Commissioner on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was placed in Le Monde (France), the Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina) and Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil) in December 2007. Media analysis of articles published on the occasion of Human Rights Day 2007 is still ongoing. More than 40 articles have been identified thus far, the majority of which include portions of both the message of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General. 53. A cartoon exhibit highlighting UDHR 60 entitled “Sketching human rights” was launched in the visitors’ lobby at United Nations Headquarters on Human Rights Day 2007.

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