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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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