A/HRC/7/34 page 13 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the rights of Africa’s indigenous peoples. The Department also maintains the Africa Renewal website in English and French (www.un.org/AR). 4. Public and educational outreach 61. During 2007, eight NGO briefings were devoted to human rights issues, including discrimination, indigenous rights, and extreme poverty, with the remainder relating to International Women’s Day, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-atlantic slave trade, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, World Press Freedom Day and Human Rights Day. 62. The Department has begun planning for the sixty-first Annual DPI/NGO Conference in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. DPI has invited UNESCO, the Government of France and OHCHR to be co-organizers of the event, which is expected to be held in Paris in September 2008. 63. During the reporting period, the Department’s Public Relations Section organized 33 in-house briefings with a total attendance of 1,027 participants and two outside speaking engagements with a total attendance of 260 participants on the subject of human rights. 64. The Department’s Public Inquiries Unit and CyberSchoolBus Unit host an annual multimedia human rights conference for students drawn from the United States and around the world. The conference seeks to promote awareness and to prompt action among student leaders about human rights in general. The 2007 Student Conference focused on recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples. In addition to producing the background document and developing the conference website, the CyberSchoolBus Unit added a new feature on its site - live video chats. The Public Inquiries Unit responded to 24,331 e-mails, petitions, walk-in enquiries, letters and telephone calls specifically on human rights. 65. The CyberSchoolBus Unit also launched its first WebQuest on a human rights topic: the use of child soldiers. WebQuest is an educational tool which seeks to build knowledge and then offers options to test this knowledge through the online presentation of study resources and ready-made quizzes. The WebQuest on child soldiers includes an examination of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol, and looks at the involvement of children in armed conflict. In November, the Unit also launched an additional site on the Convention to highlight its eighteenth anniversary, which includes a new curriculum on the Convention, along with a multimedia slide show developed in partnership with Magnum Photos. This launch was accompanied by a live video chat with a representative of UNICEF who spoke about the Convention with teachers and students. 66. The Department’s Dag Hammarskjold Library has begun work on a web page that will highlight the early documents that led up to the adoption of the resolution containing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. These will include the documents of the Nuclear Committee, the Drafting Committee and the first session of the Commission on Human Rights, and Third Committee of the General Assembly documents.