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Women’s Day in Colombia, Egypt, Ghana and South Africa. The Secretary-General’s message
for the International Day of Tolerance 2005 was placed in local publications in the Philippines,
the Sudan and Togo.
81.
A range of information products, such as regular newsletters, TV and radio productions,
press kit materials and websites, often produced by UNICs in local languages, also serve as
vehicles for raising awareness of human rights issues within their regions. Specific examples
from the range of products produced during this reporting period include: newsletter articles on
human rights education, women’s rights and the Human Rights Council by UNICs in India,
Bangladesh and Brazil, respectively; translations into Portuguese of press kits on human rights
issues by UNIC Brazil and UNRIC; and the production of a booklet in Portuguese on the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by UNIC Brazil.
82.
UNICs also continue to be active in translating, printing and disseminating the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other core international human rights instruments in local
languages. For example, these documents were reprinted in Armenian, Czech, Fulfulde and
local Indian languages.
83.
Subjects of radio programmes produced by UNICs during this period included human
rights abuses in Darfur, women’s rights, indigenous rights, racism and the Human Rights
Council (Burundi); and women’s rights, children’s rights, freedom of expression and child
labour (Kenya). Examples of TV programming produced or arranged by UNICs include a series
on women and gender 10 years after Beijing (Armenia); and pieces on women and local
elections, girl’s education and the Human Rights Council (Burkina Faso).
84.
Human Rights Day and International Women’s Day are two of the most active
international days for UNICs, and events are often organized in partnership with NGOs, national
human rights institutions, law societies and academic institutions. Commemorative events for
Human Rights Day were organized in Armenia, Burkina Faso, the Congo, India, Madagascar,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Thailand, Tunisia and the United Republic of Tanzania, and for
International Women’s Day by UNICs in Burundi, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco, Romania
and Zimbabwe, among others. Special events for other international days such as the
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, the Day of the African Child
and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women were organized by
UNICs in Cameroon, the Congo and the United Republic of Tanzania.
85.
Other examples of special initiatives relating to human rights in which UNICs were
involved include exhibitions on human rights by the UNICs in Burkina Faso and Japan; a human
rights educational project for high school students in the Czech Republic; and photo exhibitions
on human rights in Armenia, the Congo and Senegal.
86.
UNIC representatives regularly give briefings to visitors and participate as speakers in
panel discussions, workshops and conferences. During this reporting period, some examples of
human rights-related briefings or presentations included: briefings to students by UNICs in
the Congo, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Togo; several briefings to the
National Institute of Deaf Persons on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
by UNIC Brazil; briefings to teachers on United Nations reform and the Human Rights Council
by UNIC Iran; and on the United Nations and human rights by the UNICs in Mexico and
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