A/HRC/4/106 page 8 4. Training courses and other technical cooperation activities with a public information element 28. An account of the training courses, seminars and workshops organized by OHCHR is given in the report of the Secretary-General to the Human Rights Council on advisory services and technical cooperation in the field of human rights (A/HRC/4/94). III. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION 29. The Department of Public Information of the Secretariat publicized the work of the United Nations in the field of human rights using various tools of communication and information dissemination at its disposal. New technologies have accelerated the dissemination of information through electronic means, supplementing, and in some cases reinforcing, the traditional means. As a result of and in support of the Plan of Action of the High Commissioner’s Office, the Department has strengthened its working relationship with OHCHR. 30. The Department continued to cover the human rights-related work of the intergovernmental bodies of the United Nations, including the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and its successor, the Human Rights Council, and the human rights treaty bodies. It applied a multimedia approach to information dissemination with information materials distributed to the media through press conferences, press briefings and other media outreach activities, on the United Nations website, in radio and television programmes, at exhibits, special events and activities with educational and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and through public services for visitors and public inquiries. Information materials were produced in the six official languages of the United Nations and disseminated worldwide, including through the worldwide network of United Nations information centres and services and United Nations Offices. Many materials were also adapted into local languages. 31. The main activities undertaken by the Department from January 2005 to December 2006 are summarized below. 32. The UN News Centre portal (www.un.org/news) is one of the most heavily visited areas on the United Nations website, registering nearly 1 million separate visits a month. Over 1,400 news stories related to human rights issues and activities were posted on the site during the reporting period. Those stories were also distributed to nearly 50,000 subscribers to the United Nations News Service’s e-mail news alerts service (English and French) and published on a variety of United Nations-system and external websites, including those of major media outlets, news aggregator services, NGOs and educational institutions. The UN News Centre features “Human Rights” as one of its major news topics on the front page, as well as part of its RSS (Real Simple Syndication) news feed service that allows subscribers to receive digital news content as it is updated. Following the establishment of the Human Rights Council, a special “News Focus” page devoted to the new body was created and drew thousands of visitors. 33. The Department’s Web Services Section, working with UNIS Geneva, covered the three regular sessions of the Council in 2006, including 190 hours of live webcast recording of meetings and over 2,750 video clips of the proceedings in English and the original language. These were made accessible via a dedicated webcast page and links from the OHCHR and the